Kango hammer vibration impact

adocholiday

This might be me seriously overthinking stuff but I'll ask anyway!

I am having a radiator moved in one room and a new one one put in in a different room next week.

In the room where the radiator is being moved, the concrete floor has to be kango hammered as pipes can't be run along the wall. Some of the roof battens above the room (about 10-15 feet up, vaulted ceilings) are rotten and I'm concerned now that the vibrations will cause them to fail. We need to get them redone anyway, but would prefer to wait until I have the money to do them!

In the other room where the new rad is going in we also need to do a small bit of kangoing and there is a 1-2mm wide structural crack from the top of the window to the ceiling (about 10 inches long) that permeates right through the block wall. Our engineer said at the time of buying that it was unlikely to fail but to keep an eye on it. I'm concerned that kangoing in the room might exacerbate that crack, particularly because the radiator is going in at the base of that wall.

Just wondering if any of the knowledgeable folks here might know if the vibrations from a kango hammer would be something to be concerned about here?

endacl

Would fixing your rotten roof not be a more immediate priority than moving a radiator?

adocholiday

endacl wrote: »

Would fixing your rotten roof not be a more immediate priority than moving a radiator?

We only recently found this out, already had the plumber and radiators lined up so just want to get it done and off the to do list. The batten is top of my priority list believe me, it's just the bottom batten that's gone too, not anything else so I probably made that sound worse than it is. An engineer has assessed it and said that there's no immediate risk of failure but I'm concerned that the kango might tip it over the edge.

Calahonda52

endacl wrote: »

Would fixing your rotten roof not be a more immediate priority than moving a radiator?

+1
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