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Location of plastic ducting in walls?

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  • 09-06-2006 9:29am
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    lastbuilders
    Registered Users Posts: 302 ✭✭


    Hi,



    I am putting in a HRV system in my self build which means that I have some plastic pipes running down the external and internal walls. My plasterer is starting next week and I wanted to check if there is any standard way of marking where the pipes are in the walls for the future? I took pictures of the walls b4 the plasterboard was put up but maybe there is a more common/better way of marking these? Also, is there anyway of protecting the pipes?



    Lastbuilders


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    JohnDigital
    Registered Users Posts: 513 ✭✭✭JohnDigital


    Best way I can think of is to mark the floorboards directly below them - that is assuming they are running vertical and you are carpeting so that easy access can be made to the marks.


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    tribesman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭tribesman


    I don't know of any way of marking where the ducting is but I found that taking photos with a measuring tape in the picture was very useful. I used a metric only tape that had easily visible red marks every 10cm. This meant that you could read the tape from the red marks even though the photos were taken too far away to actually read the numbers.


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    dmck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 105 ✭✭dmck


    You could try a crude record drawing, draw out the room including windows and doors etc (it doesn’t have to be perfect or even to scale) and mark in the measurements on that. A simple sketch coupled with photos should cover you for future reference. Don’t forget to mark in heights from the ground as well as distances.

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    sparkyjo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88 ✭✭sparkyjo


    well there is a nice little scanner you could get it no a 100% accurite but it gives a good rough guide to were cables and joists and other obstructions are maybe that could save you a bit work


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    beolight
    Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭beolight


    to protect your pipes what i done in my house was gun o prened some exterior grade floor tiles i had left over onto the back of the plasterboard which was covering the pipes this worked fine except were you came accross apipe located close to a joist

    otherwise perfect

    i had to use a diamond table saw to cut and a diamond bit to drill any type of hole in the floor tiles(after burning out countless masonory bits) everything pretty safe now unless of course you come accross somebody veryt determined to drill a hole in that location:D


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