Nailing Wooden Floors - how do I know if gas pipes under concrete?

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movedhouse08

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Hi, we're getting solid wooden floors fitted. Our carpenter is going to nail them down and has asked us if we know the depth of the gas pipes under the floor? The house is about 16 years old and we are only in it a few years so have no idea. The floors are concrete.

Any ideas how we get this information? Thanks
 
He shouldn't be nailing a wooden floor to concrete! Are you sure this is what he's proposing?
 
He is nailing battons to the concrete, for the wooden floor to sit on. He is right to check the depth for pipes.
 
LS400 said:
He is nailing battons to the concrete, for the wooden floor to sit on. He is right to check the depth for pipes.
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and you know.................. how?
look we all know what he's doing or supposed to be doing, the reason im questioning it is because in any hardware shop you can buy a detector to find pipes, i doubt if even the person who laid the pipes could tell you how deep they are now. a 'Carpenter' would'nt even ask that question unless he's unexperienced.
 
The "unexperienced carpenter" would`nt have even thought of asking the obvious question and just ploughed on. The analogy comes to mind, Measure twice cut once..
 
LS400 said:
The "unexperienced carpenter" would`nt have even thought of asking the obvious question and just ploughed on. The analogy comes to mind, Measure twice cut once..
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ill type this slowly so that its easier to understand..... my point is that some one with the experience necessary to do the job, would , have all the necessary tools to do the job, and therefore the ' experience' to do the job without having to ask the obvious...............
 
Ok, this is going off topic. You obviously feel, by someone posing a question, limits their ability to do a task. Now thats the sort of cowboy attitude that gives the trade a bad name. Never be afraid to ask a question..it should`nt make you feel too inferior.
 
I would have to agree with Donee here, while the tradesman may ask such a question, when the customer replied (and what customer would know where the gas pipes were!)
the tradesman should have assured them it was no issue as he would use his equipment to detect it.

But in saying that, if the customer had said, yes, they run along here, and the tradesman took them up on the info and they were wrong and he bust a gas pipe
then he would most likely try to hold them at fault (maybe even the purpose of the question)

Either way, a good tradesman should pass confidence to customers in their ability, not diminish it!

Its not about looking inferior, it's about looking and being competent.
(ie, have the knowledge, training, skill and ability to do the job at hand)
 
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