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I am in the process of renovating our house and all of the downstairs pipes run under the concrete floor (and it looks like bare copper in the concrete and not wrapped). It is going to be a ball ache but I am going to re-route all of the piping and drop tails down from the ceilings instead (and box in).
Hopefully your concrete can be chipped away easily and a quick repair made.
eskay-
Just been mentally surveying the house to see how feasible that would be.... :)
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That leak finder guy on Facebook reels loves a good un protected pipe in a concrete floor.
Just feels wrong to me to ever do that, but then I've never been a contractor doing a job on a fixed price and have german suv car payments to make. -
...all of the downstairs pipes run under the concrete floor (and it looks like bare copper in the concrete and not wrapped).
Old gravity-fed boiler system swapped out for new (higher pressured) combi...on firing up to test we ended up with an indoor water feature around the uncovered pipework - there's a leak in the what appear to be unprotected pipes under the concrete somewhere so we're going for a full uncover/replace in the front room as I type.
Fortunately we changed our mind and swapped the boiler over seven weeks after moving in and before redoing floors and redecorating rather than a year or two down the line after doing everything else as we had intended to...that would have been a real p*sser, and the best thing to think about as the noise of drilling rattles round the house!
el_presidente
BrickMan
tonylast
Got a leak right where a pipe goes into the concrete floor at the back of my kitchen. Plumber due today to have a look but this is going to be a fucker to fix isn't it :(