Worth digging copper pipes out of concrete now?

[Radders23]

Hiya, I've heard copper pipe should never be buried as it is in cement but that's what we've found in our house. We want to remove this radiator but it Ts off from a pipe in the concrete floor which supplies the extension (and another radiator in the same room). As you can see the pipes also bend above the floor which isn't ideal.. should we dig out the entire length of pipe from the concrete or try joining a bent copper/plastic pipe to the existing pipe and burying in floor? The pipes have been as they are since the old owners did the extension in 86..

We had exactly the same problem. We got around it by re-piping (clearly not the technical term for it) all of our radiators and rerouting all of the pipe work above the ground and boxing it all in. As no more water will run through the pipes under ground, they won't cause any further damage.

The dilemma I'm faced with is that that would be a massive job. I'm hoping perhaps if they are fine after over 30 years they don't need digging up?

Ours were done in 1966. We had damp issues which we suspected came from the underfloor pipes and lots of our neighbours have had issues too. The cement dissolves the lead so it'll only get worse I would think.

If you want to lay a new pipe, you can. The old pipe can be abandoned, it does not have to be dug up as long as it is no longer connected to water.

Our pipes are copper so not sure if it would be different. We don't really want to lay new pipe if we don't have to...

just wondering what you decided-we have the same dilemma!