Owain wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Its quite common in same areas around here to have the stopcock
under the hall floorboards (older houses). Someone asked me to move
one t'other day so they could have laminate flooring in the hall.
Turned the job down because it was an iron pipe with no joins I
could see, in a really inaccessible place. No doubt it could be
done, but not a job for me.
It leads me to think however that it must be a common problem.
Has anyone seen an 'off the shelf' laminate floor access hatch?
I suppose I could build one, but a standard product would be easier.

You can get "stage floor boxes" for use in office floors to carry
electrical wiring, they have a recessed panel in the lid where
matching laminate or carpet can be slid in.

http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_Ind...xes/index.html

Coincidentally I fitted one of those very objects last week in an office on
the local industrial estate. Cut a channel in the floor from the wall to the
room centre - about 10', then a rectangle for the box.

What a bugger of a job! Concrete had presumably been compacted with a
vibrating poker and was as hard as bloody nails, then I hit the rebar which
had to be cut away with an angle grinder. Wished I'd never started it.

Problem would be in this case that they have a solid steel base.....


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