"Tim Mitchell" wrote in message
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I wish I'd taken a picture of a central heating boiler installation
at a neighbour's house - done on a government grant..

The gas pipe was fixed *outside* the walls.

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Lots of them like that round here - people have moved their boilers into
the loft, copper gas pipe comes out of the (outside) meter cupboard, up
the wall and into the loft.

This piping went round and close to the back door. It was also attached to
the wall at just above ground level, asking to be used as a footrail. I
described it in my original post.

Mary
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Tim Mitchell