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Pipe coming out of floor -1930’s

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FunPinkSwan · 14/01/2025 21:06

Help please …

what is this (pipe?) coming out of the floorboards/carpet next to the chimney breast in bedroom upstairs ?

1930,s house

do you think it could have been something to do with the back boiler that use to be situated in the chimneys , or would that only be down stairs ?

does anyone know if easy to get rid ?

TIA

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menopausalmare · 14/01/2025 21:21

Gas pipe from an old gas heater. Closed off. We had ours removed/ shortened so it was hidden under the floorboards.

Thewrongdoor · 14/01/2025 21:25

It’s for gas. We have them in every room.

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FunPinkSwan · 14/01/2025 21:49

Thank you both.

@menopausalmare is there a rough ball park figure you paid for this type of work ? Just trying to see if it’s costly ?

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PalmLady · 14/01/2025 22:32

It's closed off already so to remove just the pipe that's showing I can't imagine it will be much. Just the hourly rate for one tradesman.

VanWeezer · 14/01/2025 22:38

I had something like this in my old 1930s house. Mine was from the ceiling rather than the floor.

It was about 10 years ago and cost under £100. The boiler company did it when I got the boiler serviced. Can't remember it taking it long either

menopausalmare · 15/01/2025 06:56

FunPinkSwan · 14/01/2025 21:49

Thank you both.

@menopausalmare is there a rough ball park figure you paid for this type of work ? Just trying to see if it’s costly ?

Hi Pink Swan.
We had our pipe hidden 13 years ago when we moved in and it was part of a bigger job that involved moving a radiator. I really couldn't say how much it would cost now but it wasn't outrageous at the time. The same chap who services our boiler did it.

BlackboardMonitorVimes · 15/01/2025 07:06

We had one like this that we assumed was gas but was actually an old water pipe. Didn't make a difference though as it was closed and was easily removed as part of larger work on the heating.

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FunPinkSwan · 15/01/2025 07:44

That’s great - thank you everyone

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May09Bump · 15/01/2025 08:01

We had one of these too and had a gas engineer take it out - it was still connected to our gas.- it was included in a bigger job to remove all gas appliances from the house (excluding boiler) so can't tell you how much. We had a gas leak in our previous house - so prefer electric appliances.

housethatbuiltme · 15/01/2025 16:59

Gas pipe for a gas fire connection.

We have one in the living room that sticks out like this, makes it easy to disable but our 2nd fireplace its buried/hidden (either in the floor/wall or fire itself) which makes it much harder.

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