eeka
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Hi, I was hoping someone might know the answer to this.
I live in a three-family (stacked/three-decker) home built in 1893. I own and occupy the third floor only.
About two years ago, I had several thousand dollars worth of plumbing done on my unit by a very reputable company that does tons of work in my area. I was in the process of renovating my kitchen and discovered horrible scary plumbing (including drain pipes running uphill and car radiator hose used as supply lines!) tied into the original plumbing presumably when the place was renovated in the 1990s a couple of owners ago. I decided to call plumbers and have them rip out everything in my unit and redo it out to the original plumbing, which they said was still in great shape. They redid the gas line to my stove as well.
Today, while laying new floor in my kitchen, I discovered that the old, unused gas pipe is really hot to the touch (it's usually behind a freestanding counter/cabinet unit so I don't notice it). The pipe is partially embedded in what looks like some sort of concrete leveling material where the wall meets the subfloor, so the pipe was left and a new one was just put in along the wall above that. I'm certain that this is old pipe and isn't hooked up to gas; the end where the stove used to be is open and clearly not leaking gas, and I can follow the new gas line from the stove into the wall where the plumbing enters the unit.
Does anyone have any idea why the pipe would be hot? Is it something I should worry about, or is the other end of it probably just really close to something else hot in the walls, like a heating pipe? Thanks!
I live in a three-family (stacked/three-decker) home built in 1893. I own and occupy the third floor only.
About two years ago, I had several thousand dollars worth of plumbing done on my unit by a very reputable company that does tons of work in my area. I was in the process of renovating my kitchen and discovered horrible scary plumbing (including drain pipes running uphill and car radiator hose used as supply lines!) tied into the original plumbing presumably when the place was renovated in the 1990s a couple of owners ago. I decided to call plumbers and have them rip out everything in my unit and redo it out to the original plumbing, which they said was still in great shape. They redid the gas line to my stove as well.
Today, while laying new floor in my kitchen, I discovered that the old, unused gas pipe is really hot to the touch (it's usually behind a freestanding counter/cabinet unit so I don't notice it). The pipe is partially embedded in what looks like some sort of concrete leveling material where the wall meets the subfloor, so the pipe was left and a new one was just put in along the wall above that. I'm certain that this is old pipe and isn't hooked up to gas; the end where the stove used to be is open and clearly not leaking gas, and I can follow the new gas line from the stove into the wall where the plumbing enters the unit.
Does anyone have any idea why the pipe would be hot? Is it something I should worry about, or is the other end of it probably just really close to something else hot in the walls, like a heating pipe? Thanks!