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Gas pipe under concrete

  • 20-08-2019 09:59PM
    #1
    mloc123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,445 ✭✭✭


    I have to cut a channel in my kitchen floor and had a moment of fear. There are two gas supply pipes coming into the room and I do not know what route they take, installed when the house was built in ~1996. I assume there is a minimum depth in the slab that these would have been buried? I need to channel 25mm-30mm.


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  • #2
    DublinDilbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,397 ✭✭✭DublinDilbert


    mloc123 wrote: »
    I have to cut a channel in my kitchen floor and had a moment of fear. There are two gas supply pipes coming into the room and I do not know what route they take, installed when the house was built in ~1996. I assume there is a minimum depth in the slab that these would have been buried? I need to channel 25mm-30mm.

    There are regulations how deep they should be burried. If installed with the house they would of been put in before the slab was poured. More than likely they are done in copper so a metal detector isn't really going to be much help. Do you have a gas hob/boiler, it would be helpful to find out where the main line is split for these two.


  • #3
    mloc123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,445 ✭✭✭mloc123


    I did some further investigation.

    There are two pipes, one for the boiler and one for a hob (which is just capped off behind the press) both are in conduit, I measured and the pipe goes at least 50mm down into the conduit (it is now full of small rubble, dust etc.. so I cannot see deeper than that) so safe to assume that the gas pipes are under the slab or at least more than 50mm down.


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