What's this pipe...?
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Bit of an odd one this... ever since we moved into our house we've been wondering what this pipe is for. It's in our dining room, and appears to have been capped internally. This is a ground-floor room, in a house with no basement, so we can't access the pipe from beneath to see where it goes. Clearly the previous owners of the house were apprehensive about cutting the pipe so just did this ugly bodge-job when fitting the laminate flooring and left the pipe in place.
Any ideas how we could establish what it's for and whether it is OK to trim / cut in order to lay flooring over the top of it? It does not border an exterior wall, so I don't think it can be anything to do with an old boiler, but if it's not something to do with the boiler, what the hell is it for???
Any ideas how we could establish what it's for and whether it is OK to trim / cut in order to lay flooring over the top of it? It does not border an exterior wall, so I don't think it can be anything to do with an old boiler, but if it's not something to do with the boiler, what the hell is it for???
I'm pretty sure the house used to have a central fireplace / chimney running up trough the middle, but this pipe is on the other side of the original wall to where that would have been.
No idea about community heating in the area previously, dunno if that would have been something in keeping with the "garden city" ethos though, sounds like it could be...
Is this the sort of thing I'd need to get a plumber to inspect to be certain of its purpose?
No idea about community heating in the area previously, dunno if that would have been something in keeping with the "garden city" ethos though, sounds like it could be...
Is this the sort of thing I'd need to get a plumber to inspect to be certain of its purpose?
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