chuckey
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When I moved into my present house in 1980. The gas was piped in copper up the hall wall, and reappeared from the dining room ceiling in lead where it ran down a bit then through the wall into the kitchen where it changed to iron fittings. This clearly was not a good set up so I changed all this junk to copper running under the floor straight into the kitchen. When I removed the lead section it had all the tails (~5/16" diam lead pipes) for the gas lighting still attached and hammered flat!
I just repeat this warning because at last I am decorating a bedroom for the first time and I came across one of these small lead pipes where it appeared in the corner of a chimney breast recess - badly plastered in. As I was sure that the pipe was empty, a hammer and a punch pushed the pipe below the plaster level where it was dutifully plastered in.
Frank
I just repeat this warning because at last I am decorating a bedroom for the first time and I came across one of these small lead pipes where it appeared in the corner of a chimney breast recess - badly plastered in. As I was sure that the pipe was empty, a hammer and a punch pushed the pipe below the plaster level where it was dutifully plastered in.
Frank