What is this pipe and who to call?

OohSoHolly

Hello Everyone,

We’ve recently removed a brick wall and hearth to reveal an original fire place in our dining room. Upon removing the hearth we have uncovered (buried in cement) an old pipe. But we can’t for the life of us work out what it is for? We need it removing as we intend to put a new hearth down but have no idea whether this is for a gas engineer or if it is an old hot water pipe?



Wondered if anyone can shed any light on it for us as we really are stumped... :o

TonyMMM

Looks like an old gas pipe ....someone probably had a gas fire in there at one time.

We have one that comes out of the wall just to the side of the fireplace.

Robin9

A Gas Safe engineer (used to be CORGI)

Risteard

Robin9 wrote: »

A Gas Safe engineer (used to be CORGI)

Obviously gas installers are not actually engineers.

George_Michael

Risteard wrote: »

Obviously gas installers are not actually engineers.

According to whom?

Gas Safe themselves refer to people registered with them as engineers:
https://www.gassaferegister.co.uk/

as do the Health and safety executive:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/gas/gas-safe-register-check.htm

and the UK government careers office:
https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk/job-profiles/gas-service-technician

Jackmydad

Whatever the case about the semantics of the word "engineer" :
It's a gas pipe, so as already said you need someone who is Gas Safe registered to deal with it.

FreeBear

Looks much like a cast iron pipe I had under the kitchen floor along with a faint smell of gas. Called out National Grid and they disconnected the pipe from the gas main free of charge.

ilikewatch

If you can it might be worth seeing if you can track where the pipe goes - we had a similair pipe in our house, but when we traced it we found it had been diconnected and capped at the meter. That meant we could just remove all the pipework and fittings ourselves.

Alex1983

Not that it matters but it’s not iron, it’s copper with a 15mm compression x 1/2 BSP female, which has been capped.

Need some one gas safe to check it’s dead, may look like it’s cut off by meter but needs checking to prove it.

bris

I would assume it's live, its been turned off and capped but highly unlikely to be actually disconnected from the gas pipework in the property.


It was probably feeding an old back boiler and capped when upgrading the heating system.