How to hide natural gas pipe on my deck?
Francorosso
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Please see the photos (just re-uploaded). I need some help on how I can hide the ugly gas pipe under my new deck? The gas contractor got here late and the deck contractor had alreay installed the vinyl ceiling material over the joists. So the gas guy just runs the pipe over the top of the ceiling material. Now it looks like hell and I want to cover it up somehow. Is there something a solution out there? Or a work-around somebody has had experience with? I thought that maybe a section of rain-gutter would do the trick, or maybe a piece of PVC sliced in half. I would much prefer a ready-made solution but haven’t been able to get google to come up with anything yet……
Franco
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Photos didn't make it, but I'd probably box it in with PVC exterior trim.
How to hide natural gas pipe on my deck?
Thanks Dan, if you click on the broken link icons the pictures do load, at least they did on my computer. Not sure what I did wrong, they are JPG files and they look good in the preview.
Anyway, I could do what you say with PVC trim, but was hoping for a "ready-made" solution, kind of like the trim they make to hide cords on wall mount tv's.
Anyone else? I attached a third photo to this reply. The pipe runs along the underside of my deck next to the wall.
How to hide natural gas pipe on my deck?
Re-posting the original photos.
Box it in.
I'd install a box around it. the sides should be solid, and the bottom vented so if there is a leak you will smell it.
Talk to the Vinyl installer, and see if they can get a vented beaded soffit panel that matches the bead board they put up.
I'd put a piece of solid wood of good 3/4-inch plywood on the outside, pocket holed into the joists, and then install a facia board to that and an F channel at the wall to recive the soffit panel.
This is the CertainTeed manual on the vented soffit installation. It should give you a better idea of what I'm talking about. Look at diagrams 6, 8, and 9. http://www.certainteed.com/resources/555.pdf
How to hide natural gas pipe on my deck?
Thanks, Jigs. Checking it out.
Definitely a mess
and I'd probably do what the others suggested, since I've done that kind of thing before, for water and sewer pipes running up the outside of a wall.
May I make an additional suggestion? The photos you uploaded are each about 2MB in size; photos that size take a long time to be processed to a size displayable by anyone's computer monitor. Things would probably go quite a bit quicker if you resized the photographs to maxim width of 1000 pixels or so (file size no more than 2-300k) before uploading them.
My mess
OK, I had no idea, I will figure out how to make my pictures smaller.
Frank