Strange object

Hello everyone

I was hoping to get some advice from you experts. I'm about to laminate the bedroom but there is a strange problem underneath the existing carpet. It's a small (about 15mm diameter) circular, metal cap or end of a metal rod. It has the initials L & B engraved on it. It must have been an issue for the carpet fitter who put down the existing carpet as he just carpeted over it and it has now worn through. I assume it prods up from the floor boards and it is very solid. Anyone know what it is, or how to get rid of it? I don't think I could put the laminate over it as it is approx. 3cm high.

Many thanks

Howard

(house is a mid 30's semi by the way

 

Where abouts in the room is it? it may be an old gas pipe capped off :?:

 

Could be. It's about 4inch from the skirting board in an upstairs bedroom. Just in front of where the chimney wall is. Having looked again I can see where an old fire may have been plastered over. I suppose this means it wouldn't be advisable to hack saw it off!

Any suggestions for the laminate floor problem and thanks for your speedy advice.

Howard

 

get a pic up, people will get a better idea then :smile:

 

Maybe you could ease force it down to the floorboards or as has been advised show a photo.

 

You could ply the sub floor to the hight of the pipe or use a thicker underlay.

 

Sorry, just read it again and 3cm is a bit high for that. Guess you would just have to cut round it?

 

Is the bedroom a loft conversion?
It could be an old piece of conduit piping

 

get someone in to lift a board up cut the pipe and recap it

 

its a pipe that went to the old gas poker (use for lighting coal fires in the old days). i've come across them before even with the brass tap still attached,
the one's i've seen used to be supplied by town gas which was discontuied yonks ago. get a gas safe plummer to check if it dead and if so remove it or get
a tap fitted and have it as a feature in the room, mind you, you were always tripping over the dam things

 

Maybe if we could get a closer view ............................

 

Yep definetly GAS had one just like it in my old house traced it back to the gas metre, got my corgi registerd mate in as it was back in the day now its gas safe I think, he cut off and capped it at the metre end just incase as it was very old.