Copper pipe and plastering
 

On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:55:05 +0100, "David Bennett"
babbled like a waterfall and
said:

Hi all,

Sorry if this has been answered before as I seeem to remember a similar
thread, but I've lost it! I need to install approx 12" of copper pipe in a
chase in a plastered breezeblock wall, but remember someone mentioning that
you shouldn't plaster over copper pipe. Isd this OK, or would chrome pipe
be better?

Best Wishes,
Dave

Just paint the pipe in underseal or wrap it in duct tape to keep the
plaster off it.

"EricP" wrote in message
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On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:55:05 +0100, "David Bennett"
babbled like a waterfall and
said:

Hi all,

Sorry if this has been answered before as I seeem to remember a similar
thread, but I've lost it! I need to install approx 12" of copper pipe in
a
chase in a plastered breezeblock wall, but remember someone mentioning
that
you shouldn't plaster over copper pipe. Isd this OK, or would chrome pipe
be better?

Best Wishes,
Dave

Just paint the pipe in underseal or wrap it in duct tape to keep the
plaster off it.


Thanks Eric, hadn't thought of that!!!

EricP wrote:
On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:55:05 +0100, "David Bennett"
babbled like a waterfall and
said:

Sorry if this has been answered before as I seeem to remember a similar
thread, but I've lost it! I need to install approx 12" of copper pipe in a
chase in a plastered breezeblock wall, but remember someone mentioning that
you shouldn't plaster over copper pipe. Isd this OK, or would chrome pipe
be better?

Personally I'd never bury copper pipe in a solid wall unless really,
absolutely necessary - can't you box it in some way?

Just paint the pipe in underseal or wrap it in duct tape to keep the
plaster off it.

I thought it was just mortar (ie cement), rather than plaster, which
attacked copper - am I wrong on that?

David

In article ,
Lobster wrote:
Personally I'd never bury copper pipe in a solid wall unless really,
absolutely necessary - can't you box it in some way?

Well, it should be easy enough to arrange for it not to have any joints
concealed?

My place had both lead for water and iron barrel for gas pipes plastered
in. And both seemed to have lasted for 100 years or so. ;-)

I'd fit it inside PVC tube or trunking. If there were issues between
copper, PVC and plaster I'd have said we'd have heard about them by now.;-)

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Dave Plowman London SW
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"David Bennett" wrote in message
...
Hi all,

Sorry if this has been answered before as I seeem to remember a similar
thread, but I've lost it! I need to install approx 12" of copper pipe in
a chase in a plastered breezeblock wall, but remember someone mentioning
that you shouldn't plaster over copper pipe. Isd this OK, or would chrome
pipe be better?

Its copper pipe in cement thats the problem. I think it also needs
water/damp as well to attack the copper, which is why a lot off people get
away with it.