Gas Works

Options for re-running leaking steel pipe-work under suspended wooden floor

Anonymous user 01/03/2024 - 3.01 PM

I live in a Victorian end-terrace with a suspended wooden floor (engineered wooden floor laid over original - or thereabouts - boards) and no crawl space. We have a small gas leak and, after isolating difference appliances/pipework, the engineer believes it to be in the (very) old steel pipe that runs under the floor from the gas meter in our cupboard to the kitchen. We happen to be having the kitchen redone, so at some point, the gas needs to be reconnected to our new gas hob. The engineer's best suggestion to minimise cost, disruption and the dining room décor is to send a new 22mm copper pipe up through the ceiling above the gas meter, run this along the skirting in the landing and then back down through the kitchen ceiling, where it can be connected up. I'd be really grateful for any views on this approach. Does it make sense and/or sound like the best way forward? What options might there be for re-running it under the floor? Would this all need taking up? And then can copper pipe be laid directly below or does it need ducting and/or screed? I want to know what's preferrable versus what's possible (practically and legally!) Thank you, in advance.