What is the regulation for running gas pipes vertically up timber kit walls. Is it allowed and if so, how? I have just bought a small flat and I need to run a gas pipe from my meter which is situated in the corner of my living room into the attic where there will be a new boiler installed. I dont want to have it surfaced with the need to box it in afterwards, hoping to rather remove the plasterboard from the timber kit wall and run it up the wall in the back of the plasterboard, into my attic to the boiler. Many thanks in advance.
Gas Pipes Routing
- Thread starter RossBrock
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can anyone help?????
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Nordio
I installed my own gas pipework recently for my boiler during my recent heating upheavel in my home.
The main points to note are...
1 - Protection against damage by drilling
2 - Compression joints behind plaster board prohibited
3 - And pipe only run vertically
IGE/UP/7, timber framed dwellings state....
I just used some high tensile seamless steel tubing that I had easy access to from my fabrication workshop which I sleeved over the copper tubing.
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dextrous
Op, I think that you are going to get a limited number of replies to your question on here due to it being gas work. Regardless of Nordio's response, which may well be valid (I'm not an RGI and don't know), what will be essential is that the correct size of pipe is used which is determined by the proposed pipe run, number of bends, number and size of gas appliances, requirements of boiler to name but a few.
So before you even consider doing this work, you will need advice from a gas fitter who will also determine the method of burying the pipe in the wall. After all, it may well be him who is going to sign off the work, and he won't do that if he's not happy with what's there.
So before you even consider doing this work, you will need advice from a gas fitter who will also determine the method of burying the pipe in the wall. After all, it may well be him who is going to sign off the work, and he won't do that if he's not happy with what's there.
Yeah,im gettin a plumber into do it but was wanting to know how I was allowed the pipes to be run incase I need to do any preperation work before he comes. I will remove the plasterboard before he comes and ask him to run it vertically up within the wall. Any objections?
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dextrous
Probably not. If you get him round to price the job up then he will verify this, and you will most likely have time to dig out the plasterboard before he actually comes to do the job anyway.
IGE/UP/7, timber framed dwellings state....
Although this is correct and is allowed personally i would only run pipes inside a kit as a last resort and as Nige said would prefer steel over copper.
But then i have an old head
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