Underfloor unlagged pipes

Fiona_Kennedy

Help please
The house next door was built at the same time as mine. It was flooded about 10 years ago due to underfloor unlagged pipes bursting.
I'm replacing my kitchen and my plumber has uncovered the same problem with unlagged pipes going green covered by about 6" of concrete.
The pipes are for both heating and mains. I think we'll need to replace the pipes throughout the ground floor. Would the heating pipes be able to be relocated? The mains is a worry since they could be anywhere and it covers a very large area.
Any advice would be appreciated.

molerat

Of course pipes can be re routed but you have to weigh up cost v risk v where are you going to run them. One of my bugbears when buying a house was visible ch pipes running all over the place.

JEN22

I am currently having my CH pipes chased into the walls in a 1960s bungalow. The plumber advised me to do this as mine were set in concrete too under the floor


Messy but a good job so far

Furts

When building standards were higher than they are now and Council Houses were still being built then Housing Association houses the pipes were always exposed. This showed the standard of plumbing, made checking and quality control easier and aided future maintenance.

Private house builders moved away from doing this in order to lower standards and increase their profits.

Chasing electric cables into walls is accepted practice, burying heating pipes in chases sets the alarm bells ringing

greenbee

I'm currently having all the floors upstairs taken up as part of a refurb - the downstairs pipe work is being moved up to join the upstairs circuit (and zoned) at the same time.