Can someone suggest where this gas pipe is going please?

[HannibalSmith100]

I've been installing some cupboards under the stairs and was cleaning the dust off my gas meter when it suddenly dawned on me (after 13 years of living here), why are there two outlet pipes on my installation?!

In the photo, the pipe that runs off to the right supplies gas to the kitchen where we have a gas hob and a boiler - the only appliances in the house that use gas. The other pipe just goes downwards and disappears into the concrete floor. Underneath the earthing point it seems to have some sort of coating on the pipe (although this could just be paint perhaps?). Is this an empty section of pipe to provide stability for the loop?

Can anyone enlighten me please?

 

[denso13]

Is this an empty section of pipe to provide stability for the loop?

No, it feeds/used to feed something. Maybe a fire or and old boiler position, who knows.

 

[martygturner]

Have you checked the supply for the hob and boiler... are they fed off off the same pipe or do they have their own feed ? Just because two appliances are in the same room does not mean they are both supplied off the same pipe.

 

[Hugh Jaleak]

Looks very much to me like the pipe going under the floor is original, and is/was supplying something in the property. The Tee and the pipework branching from it is a later addition.

 

[HannibalSmith100]

Thank you all, I think you're right - I can't check for certain (I'm not dismantling my kitchen on a curiosity!) but it makes sense because our boiler was fitted at a later date. So more than likely it's the original pipe feeding the gas hob and the old gas oven which has now been removed.

 

[Madrab]

more than likely it's the original pipe feeding the gas hob and the old gas oven which has now been removed.

Perfect reason why any gas pipe that is to be made redundant should really be cut back to the branch and capped off from the supply at that point.