On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 15:29:36 GMT, Harry Bloomfield
wrote:

On 02/02/2004 mat. a wrote :
pipe 1, is capped off. i think it might be water as it is cold to
touch and it is lead. the mains water is a lead pipe that goes to a
stop cock inside the coal hole as well, and from there on the pipes
are not lead in the whole house.

A lead gas pipe would be equally cold to the touch. It used to be
common pratice for water pipes to be fed through the basement of
several properties in a row. The capped off pipe might be the old feed
on to the property next door.


by looking at the picture and the way that pipe was capped off, is it
possible to say if it is/was water or gas, or both services' pipes are
capped off in the same way?

mat.