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<blockquote data-quote="joddle" data-source="post: 905537" data-attributes="member: 247983">You do have to see these things in a proper perspective - for many town properties wher properties are in flats or terraces it is the only way to get the gas to where its needed. Very often the boiler will be at the rear of a property and as natural gas is quite new in many parts of Spain (butane bottles having being very widely used in the past - and still is in many places today), no facility was ever put in properties to accommodate a gas supply and there is normally no way to get a pipe through an old or even a modern building so when a new gas supply is connected its goes &quot;over the top&quot;.&nbsp; Normally the pipe is encased where it leaves the ground outside the property to a height of two meters or more to prevent accidental damage. Its much safer to have the pipework outdoors anyway and they avoid going though wood or walls as that would make maintenance and checking much harder. Re boilers - the normal practice in Spain is to have a boiler on a terrace or outside under a small cover and they are normally not seen indoors as in the UK. &nbsp;As for the later posts with the pipework pictures - well quite frankly, my 7 year old could have done better - and for that there is no excuse - and from what I have seen locally here it is not typical thank goodness.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="joddle, post: 905537, member: 247983"] You do have to see these things in a proper perspective - for many town properties wher properties are in flats or terraces it is the only way to get the gas to where its needed. Very often the boiler will be at the rear of a property and as natural gas is quite new in many parts of Spain (butane bottles having being very widely used in the past - and still is in many places today), no facility was ever put in properties to accommodate a gas supply and there is normally no way to get a pipe through an old or even a modern building so when a new gas supply is connected its goes "over the top". Normally the pipe is encased where it leaves the ground outside the property to a height of two meters or more to prevent accidental damage. Its much safer to have the pipework outdoors anyway and they avoid going though wood or walls as that would make maintenance and checking much harder. Re boilers - the normal practice in Spain is to have a boiler on a terrace or outside under a small cover and they are normally not seen indoors as in the UK. As for the later posts with the pipework pictures - well quite frankly, my 7 year old could have done better - and for that there is no excuse - and from what I have seen locally here it is not typical thank goodness. [/QUOTE]

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