Pipes of the controlled residential ventilation system in drywall

Our controlled residential ventilation system and the pipes for it have been installed. They are located on our ceiling of the ground floor (in the insulation under the upper floor screed). Of course, the pipes also run up inside the drywall walls, where the filter will then be installed.

How can one best prevent accidentally hitting one of the pipes later with a nail or dowel?

Measure distances now?

Many greetings
Yvonne

Hello ypg,

You have already started with the solution yourself: taking photographs. All that is missing is the measuring stick in the picture. You should do this with every wall that contains cables or pipes.

Is the corrugated protective pipe in the photos inside the multilayer composite pipe? The small air layer between the two pipes might be sufficient as minimal condensation protection for KW lines, but for your hot water, no reasonable pipe insulation will fit anymore if I recognize it correctly in the photos. Without insulation, you have costly energy losses.

Regards
Allrounder

Hello Yvonne,

Our controlled residential ventilation system and the pipes for it are installed. They lie on our ceiling of the ground floor (in the insulation under the screed of the upper floor). Of course, the pipes also run up inside the drywall walls, where the filter will then be mounted.

How can you best prevent that later one of the pipes is hit by a nail or dowel?

You have really already made a start :-)

I always recommend our builders to take pictures - of everything that lies beneath drywall, plaster, coverings, or screed. In the first two years, you will still have "everything" in your mind and be able to show it almost down to the centimeter. Then everyday life sets in, you get tired of telling, and gradually the once present places end up in a drawer of the subconscious. If drilling, modifying, or expanding is to be done, it's a big problem - if you have a construction folder specifically for these things, you can never be threatened by trouble caused by power outages or water ingress. In your case, also not by perforating the controlled residential ventilation pipes ;)

Rhenish greetings

In case of emergency, simply carefully drill through the plaster layer, set it down, and then check if it is clear behind. You don't have to drill any further anyway.

Otherwise, you really can't cause any damage with a drywall anchor anyway. It's just screwed in directly with the cordless drill. At least that's how we had to do it on the ceilings. On the walls, we can screw in 35mm Spax screws completely without fear. Only the tip sticks out the back, and everything inside the wall is loosely installed. But you should really take as many photos as you can. With us, however, the construction workers were sometimes so fast that I hardly had time to take pictures...

It won't be a problem for me to take photos. A folding ruler is also part of my everyday tools, I just don't feel like pulling it out every time ;) But with the pipes, it seems to be different. It's just an annoying feeling when you want to bring system shelves into the dressing room, and suddenly you see hoses hanging there where drilling is supposed to happen. We don't have much experience with the drywall things yet, but we are positively open to the system. I just don't like that options are being taken away from me when it comes to hanging, drilling, nailing, etc ;) But if it's a normal problem that others can live with too, then everything will just be documented more thoroughly with photos and nicely printed in A4 :D