On 16/09/2013 13:14, www.GymRatZ.co.uk wrote:
Hi Folks,
Not really a D-I-Y option but we're looking at getting an old property
connected to the gas. There is what appears to be a steel pipe running
into a corner of the property capped off. I can only think it is an old
gas service that was fitted when gas was run along the street but never
connected up.
Would the gas board (Wales and West) ever use an old pipe such as this
or would they insist on running a new plastic line or even running a
smaller plastic line up the inside of an old steel pipe?

Looks like the neighbours possibly have their gas piped up a similar old
steel pipe.

I'm waiting to hear back from Wales&West but thought someone here might
have come across the same situation.
Cheers
Pete@

If the neighbours are still using the steel pipes per se - as opposed to
plastic pipes running inside the steel - then your pipe may well be
live. Do you know whether the neighbours have plastic inside the steel?

We had a new plastic gas main - with plastic pipes inside the steel
supply pipes a few years ago. I would imagine that the whole country has
been done by now. My in-laws used to live in a bungalow with a capped
off gas supply which was installed when the house was built. They never
used gas, so the supply remained capped off.

When the area was converted to plastic, I'm pretty sure that their
capped off supply was disconnected at the main. If yours is like that,
you'd have to pay for a hole to be dug and for a plastic pipe to be
inserted and connected into the main.

I'd be inclined to unscrew the cap and see whether any gas comes out!
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Cheers,
Roger
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