Pipe runs beneath floor.
 

Hi all.
The Corgi guy is coming tomorrow and alongside of the other tasks, he will
be laying
a gas pipe run beneath the floor in the hall. The pipe will run parallel
with the floor boards
for at least 3 metres. I have loosened a number of boards to make the job
easier/quicker.
But I haven't yet made it possible to manouvre a pipe much longer than a
couple of feet long
into the gaps beneath the joists.

I'd like to hear your ideas on this as in what should I do.

Thanks.

Arthur

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Arthur wrote:

Hi all.
The Corgi guy is coming tomorrow and alongside of the other tasks, he
will be laying
a gas pipe run beneath the floor in the hall. The pipe will run
parallel with the floor boards
for at least 3 metres. I have loosened a number of boards to make
the job easier/quicker.
But I haven't yet made it possible to manouvre a pipe much longer
than a couple of feet long
into the gaps beneath the joists.

I'd like to hear your ideas on this as in what should I do.

Thanks.

Arthur

Unless there's a lot of clearance under the joists, it's difficult to feed
long rigid pipes in that way - 'cos adjacent joists limit the angle of
attack.

You can get a better angle by feeding it in parallel to and between the
joists - and then dropping it and rotating it under the joists.

Alternatively, might it be possible to feed it in through an air brick?
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Cheers,
Set Square
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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Arthur wrote:

Hi all.
The Corgi guy is coming tomorrow and alongside of the other tasks, he
will be laying
a gas pipe run beneath the floor in the hall. The pipe will run
parallel with the floor boards
for at least 3 metres. I have loosened a number of boards to make
the job easier/quicker.
But I haven't yet made it possible to manouvre a pipe much longer
than a couple of feet long
into the gaps beneath the joists.

I'd like to hear your ideas on this as in what should I do.

Thanks.

Arthur

Unless there's a lot of clearance under the joists, it's difficult to feed
long rigid pipes in that way - 'cos adjacent joists limit the angle of
attack.

You can get a better angle by feeding it in parallel to and between the
joists - and then dropping it and rotating it under the joists.

Alternatively, might it be possible to feed it in through an air brick?
--
Cheers,
Set Square
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Thanks, Set.
The air vented piece of wood beneath the door step would be the likely entry
point using your idea.
Havinf said all this, the guy will probably run it through notches accross
the tops of the joists.

Arthur

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"Set Square" writes:

Alternatively, might it be possible to feed it in through an air brick?

....or take a brick out temporarily.
When I replaced my gas pipework, I drilled a new hole through
from the outside anyway as the meter is outside and the old
hole was too small and in the wrong place. I fed all the
lengths of pipe in through the hole, ahead of the final
one which was coupled up to the meter.

I did consider soldering them together as I pushed them in,
but decided it might be hard to get the angle just right, and
any deviation might put extra stress in the joints in their
final positions. So soldering was done in the wriggle space
under the floor afterwards.

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Andrew Gabriel

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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Arthur wrote:

Hi all.
The Corgi guy is coming tomorrow and alongside of the other tasks, he
will be laying
a gas pipe run beneath the floor in the hall. The pipe will run
parallel with the floor boards
for at least 3 metres. I have loosened a number of boards to make
the job easier/quicker.
But I haven't yet made it possible to manouvre a pipe much longer
than a couple of feet long
into the gaps beneath the joists.

I'd like to hear your ideas on this as in what should I do.

Thanks.

Arthur

Unless there's a lot of clearance under the joists, it's difficult to
feed
long rigid pipes in that way - 'cos adjacent joists limit the angle of
attack.

You can get a better angle by feeding it in parallel to and between the
joists - and then dropping it and rotating it under the joists.

Alternatively, might it be possible to feed it in through an air brick?
--
Cheers,
Set Square
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Thanks, Set.
The air vented piece of wood beneath the door step would be the likely
entry point using your idea.
Havinf said all this, the guy will probably run it through notches accross
the tops of the joists.

Arthur


And having said 'That'. I've just checked these joists are only 3" deep so
the pipe will have to go under.

Arthur

What about using Tracpipe? It can be expensive if you use a lot of
fittings (prices at BES), but consider the potential labour cost/metre
to lay gas pipe. Its worth looking at especially when you're running a
gas pipe from A to B via some convoluted route.

Martyn