New plasterboard set too far back

[sxturbo]

Ah is it a lot more sticky im assuming?

so basically you put the wallplugs into the wall, then screwed the plasterboard into the wall plugs (but not all the way, with adhesive on the back of the board? Then once adhesive was set you just removed the screws?

i left the screws in as its easier to fill screw heads than it is holes.

the screws were purely to pull the plasterboard in, as the expanding foam exerts quite a bit of force.

 

[jacko555]

I dont understand what you mean? The gas pipe is in the same place it was put in by the builders, its just now been capped off, whats the difference now?

Hiding a live gas pipe is a bad idea, especially if there's no sign it could be there.

You could be responsible for someone's death.

Maybe the next owner of the house decides they want a fireplace and tear out what you've done gung ho with an sds drill, or, do some Swiss cheese drilling to place bookshelves there and puncture it.

Dude.

I'm not a rgi and only have common sense. There are laws to prevent gas pipes being put in an unvented void. This is just a Google but still

(6) Where any installation pipework is not itself contained in a ventilated duct, no person shall install any installation pipework in any shaft, duct or void which is not adequately ventilated

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2451/regulation/19/made

Aren't you putting an unvented void around a gas pipe?

 

[JamesAsus]

but the pipes already there........?

Theres gas pipes running in the centre of my house to my airing cupboard where the boiler is, they sure aint vented.......

and the gasman said its safe to wrap rockwoll around it

 

[Captain Nemesis]

... where the boiler is ...

So where anybody can see a gas pipe emerging from somewhere, and so get a cue.

Im not an RGI either. I do know that with electrical cables there are rules about where they can be hidden so that people dont drill into them by accident. I dont know if there are similar rules for gas pipes.

If there arent there ought to be - someone drilling through an electrical cable might kill themselves. Someone drilling through a gas pipe might kill lots of people.

Even if there are no rules against it, IMHO it would be a ^$&%#@~ stupid idea to hide a gas pipe in a way that meant nobody could know it was there.

 

[JamesAsus]

So where anybody can see a gas pipe emerging from somewhere, and so get a cue.

Im not an RGI either. I do know that with electrical cables there are rules about where they can be hidden so that people dont drill into them by accident. I dont know if there are similar rules for gas pipes.

If there arent there ought to be - someone drilling through an electrical cable might kill themselves. Someone drilling through a gas pipe might kill lots of people.

Even if there are no rules against it, IMHO it would be a ^$&%#@~ stupid idea to hide a gas pipe in a way that meant nobody could know it was there.

I mean the gas pipe sits just abovr

So where anybody can see a gas pipe emerging from somewhere, and so get a cue.

Im not an RGI either. I do know that with electrical cables there are rules about where they can be hidden so that people dont drill into them by accident. I dont know if there are similar rules for gas pipes.

If there arent there ought to be - someone drilling through an electrical cable might kill themselves. Someone drilling through a gas pipe might kill lots of people.

Even if there are no rules against it, IMHO it would be a ^$&%#@~ stupid idea to hide a gas pipe in a way that meant nobody could know it was there.

When i had my boiler removed they didnt cap the whole pipe off either and thats a gas safe person, they just capped it as short as they could go without ripping the wall down......??

 

[Captain Nemesis]

So youve got one pipe leaving the meter, disappearing into a wall, and somewhere in that wall theres a tee, and one pipe runs through more wall(s) to where the fireplace was, and one runs through more wall(s) to where the boiler was, and that doesnt emerge into view either?

 

[JamesAsus]

So youve got one pipe leaving the meter, disappearing into a wall, and somewhere in that wall theres a tee, and one pipe runs through more wall(s) to where the fireplace was, and one runs through more wall(s) to where the boiler was, and that doesnt emerge into view either?

I dont really know what your asking?

The gas pipe in my old boiler cupboard is still there in the wall but capped off as completely removing it would require me to cut holes in brickwork...... The same as the fire would require the wall digging away to remove the whole length of pipe.

 

[Captain Nemesis]

I dont really know what your asking?

Dont worry.

Ive given up.

 

[jacko555]

I think the consensus from the other thread from rgi's is the same.

Dont leave it, cap it where it tees, either at the cooker or boiler. The tee won't be buried in a wall and leave the dead has pipe where it is.

 

[Captain Nemesis]

Which is what I said.

Get it disconnected and capped off at the other end so that it is no longer live.

Neither I nor anybody else said he should remove the pipe from the wall. Why he thought he was being told to do that IHNI.