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As has been previously mentioned, we're having a stove fitted where currently we have an open fire. As part of this, I have been takes to remove a couple of pipe coming out of the side of the chimney breast.
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I've been under the floor and both are capped off - I believe they were part of the old back boiler / heating system. I've taken off the plaster as shown in the pic. What's the best way to chop the pipes down so I can cap them off cleanly and plaster over them? I do have a pipe cutter but it isn't going to spin freely, so that means I'm going to be using the hacksaw unless anyone comes up with a better idea...
thanks!
When im cutting pipes in a tight space i use a hacksaw blade on its own. Them pipes look like they might be old steel ones, which are a ball ache in tight areas to cut. maybe take up the floor boards and find an area where you can get a pipe cutter on them. Or angle grinder if you have one.
Under the flooboards is fine, the pipes are capped off - it's above the floor where I need to get rid. Luckily they're copper (they're not painted under the floor), so I guess it's just a case of having a go with a saw of some kind.
can you not just box them in? It might be easier.
They'll trim down in no time with a decent hack saw blade. Copper is very soft, you could even use an old panel saw.
Just had a close up look, trim them at floor level with a pipe slice or blade, then push them under. No need to cap them, there is no reason for them to be full of water. Then repeated bending will snap the rest off very easily, just pull the other bit out from inside the breast
jonb - Membercan you not just box them in? It might be easier.
Mrs NBT wants them gone
trim them at floor level with a pipe slice or blade, then push them under. Then repeated bending will snap the rest off very easily
Brill, will give that a try. thanks
Trimmed at floor level (cups worth of water left in the tube squirted out, oops) and bent till they snapped off, fold the loose ends back in to brick level, job sorted. Ta.
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