Pipes: hiding or flaunting

Engineering communications are necessary, but often prevent the owners from decorating the interior the way they want. Whether to hide pipes or not is a big question, which our site of advice decided to deal with. We will also show how you can beat communications in the interior if there is no way to hide the pipes.

Immediately, we note that the pipes are different. The water supply and sewerage system is traditionally hidden in the bathroom and in the kitchen. It is important to follow three rules:

1. Carry out pressure testing. The portal wrote in detail about this process of checking the reliability of engineering systems. You need to make sure that the pipes closed under the tiles in the bathroom will not leak in case of increased pressure and are connected securely;
2. Provide sanitary inspection hatches. They must be where the hot and cold water meters, important joints and nodes are located;
3. It is necessary to leave indentation to siphons, drains from the bathroom, sink and sink in the kitchen. These are the most problematic areas that you will have to periodically clean, check, replace the siphon itself, which wears out quickly enough.

The situation is somewhat more complicated with heating pipes. On the first and last floors, apartment owners may encounter such a phenomenon as a return flow, a common house pipe, which circulates the coolant in a circle. And it is quite difficult to hide it. Of course, you can sew up everything with drywall, but such a box will also take up space! In addition, there is a risk of leaks, which will not be visible on hidden pipes. Learn about the problem only from the neighbors below.

The risers of heating pipes, of course, can also be sewn up with gypsum plasterboards, but is it worth it to go to such additional costs?

Here is a vivid (literally and figuratively) example of how easy it is to disguise heating pipes. They were simply painted the same color as the wall. Admit it, you immediately noticed this riser, located behind a beautiful floor lamp and an original upholstered chair? We – no, we had to look closely. So the issue can be solved much easier and easier than according to the principle “Let’s sew it all up with drywall”.

In this photo, a beautifully assembled thick curtain hides the heating pipes running from floor to ceiling. A very interesting, yet simple and affordable option for masking pipes, which does not require any installation and repair work..

Gas pipes, according to the requirements of the inspection service, cannot be sewn up with anything at all, categorically. There must be access to the gas pipe – this is a constant requirement of gas workers. It is difficult by law to hide such pipes in the kitchen, but you can hide them behind the cabinet facades, as in the photo above. By the way, the gas water heater is also sometimes hidden behind the door of the upper row of cabinets, although gas workers may be against it – consult.

Or you can not hide the pipes, but, on the contrary, emphasize, for example, with such a shiny and noticeable shell, turning into a rack.

Adding more pipes for decoration.

By choosing beautiful, noble pipes made of copper or brass. By the way, ordinary pipes can be painted with copper or brass. And few people would guess that this is an imitation.

Having decorated the interior in the loft style, where all communications serve as a decor, emphasizing the industrial orientation and brutality of the interior.

Turning a pipe into an art object thanks to murals, attached bright parts and other hand-made decorations.

With regard to gas pipes and heating systems, designers advise you to think – do they really bother you? Maybe you shouldn’t rush to sew up everything with drywall, which will “eat” the usable area? The pipe can also look quite appropriate, even attractive, or at least not conspicuous..