Gas Pipe Problems
Our electricians want us to bring in a plumber to shut off the gas that feeds the light fixtures AND saw off the pipes that hang down a few inches past the ceiling in every fixture. Questions: We have at least nine to saw off if not more. Isn’t this going to take forever and…
Our electricians want us to bring in a plumber to shut off the gas that feeds the light fixtures AND saw off the pipes that hang down a few inches past the ceiling in every fixture.
Questions: We have at least nine to saw off if not more. Isn’t this going to take forever and won’t the plumber charge us an arm and a leg? Also, will we be destroying our ability to hang other types of light fixtures later?
Unfortunately, we don’t have enough old fixtures to cover the pipe length.
Also, anyone recommend a plumber for this? We have to do it this week, which is crazy.
mopar…large hanging ones in the LR and rear room of the parlour level. Smaller haging one in the entrance hallway and then a few wall sconces like the single brass old style gas ones along two halls. Bedrooms have more modern fixtures that hug the ceiling but still look good with the medallions.
A 30′ drop???????????
Most of this guys globes match.
Oh, great resource. Thanks, Dave! So do you have chandeliers in every room?
We just want something simple and unobtrusive in most rooms. But we need a 30-foot drop. And it would be so nice to be able to put the same light in every room. Say, perhaps a pan light with two lights in the bigger rooms, and a simpler light on a chain fixture in the halls. But it’s impossible to find multiple matching antique fixtures.
mopar…I got chandeliers from this guy…reproductions but quite well done…
JF Pegan…he has an ebay store…his stuff is beautiful and reasonable.
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OK, everybody, this is great. But now I want to know: So what lights do you have over all your old gas pipes?
DIBS is spot on with this. Don’t cut them if you don’t have too. If you do, leave as much out as possible so you can rethread the pipe if necessary in the future.
Old gas chandeliers were really heavy, I assume the gas pipes where somehow firmly attached to the joists. Nothing like having your chandelier crash on top of the London Broil during dinner.
“separate and just hangs, providing no structural support”
No. The wire is run to the location of the light, and is separate and just gang, providing co structural support for the fixture. The old gas pipe is used only for the structural support. Usually there’s a medallion that people want to save and most of the time there is no adjacent joist to provide the structural support to hang the light, only the plaster. If it’s not very heavy you can use the plaster and the lathe for support but that’s very iffy.
I have never understood entirely the comments made by some posters that they hang their electric fictures from the old gas pipes unless electric wires were threaded through the old pipes.
Is that it?