Gas pipe routing

[hammers4spanner]

Wouldn't you vent the cavity

 

[AWheating]

i would not sign off any gas certs for them thats for sure. The nhbc inspectors rely on the gas and sparks most of the time knowing what they are doing. Sadly i would estimate that 80% of new build gas installs do not meet the building regs. The problem with alot of it is a lack of process. who inspects the plasterer is dabbing the gas pipework in? who is at fault if the fan hits the shyt?

I like to try and check its done correctly, but sadly ive been removed from a few jobs for trying to have things done correctly.

What you could do mate is suggest that the run from the boiler to the floor been run surface? put it across that its the builders job to box in the gas correctly.

it might work

 

[stratplus]

Wouldn't you vent the cavity

No, that will be a kitchen and all tiled under the boiler.

 

[hammers4spanner]

How come it's not being installed behind kit cupboards?

 

[AWheating]

should be like this.

 

[AWheating]

How come it's not being installed behind kit cupboards?

because house builder care more about looks than regs and future maintenence.

 

[Ermintrude]

Nice work! The bending is a "finger kink" it's a joke how many 1990's houses do you find the gas pipe loose in dabbed wall and randomly routed. Woof woof

 

[hammers4spanner]

Just a case of correcting it imho then wait for the builder to fudge something else up for you and wait for counter charge because you've done it properly

 

[AWheating]

what you will get is an argument over who builds/ pays who to build the box, supply any plate etc............

No body wants to do it, it dont get done.

If you at the start of a site catch the plasterer out once about not dabbing the gas pipework in, he will def do it after as hes spent 1/2 a day unpaid going back to rip out and ref dab.

sometimes you need to play the game from day one on a new build site. Walking onto a job half way through can be a mare if its all bin done wrong.

I walked onto a job where the hobs all had been fitted without proper clearence to the cupboard. It was easier to remove me from the job then put them all right.

 

[solutions]

Nice work! The bending is a "finger kink" it's a joke how many 1990's houses do you find the gas pipe loose in dabbed wall and randomly routed. Woof woof

Exactly that in the kitchen im moving in to an extension. Boiler has been moved from its original kitchen location to the garage and the gas pipe, a metre long from screed to height of original boiler is just flapping about behind the dot and dab. No clips no sheathing or denso and not dabbed over at all. If it leaked it would fill the void and there was no warning the pipe was even back there. any one could have puy a kitchen cupboard or shelf fixing through it easily.