11ant
2025-02-24 00:34:56
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A structural engineer is neither a plumber nor a boiler repairman; he is only an expert in stability. You’re lucky these are not soil pipes but probably risers for water (possibly heating). I cannot completely rule out gas in the picture, but I rather assume water. You can easily have that relocated, nowadays even as a hose. Follow Yvonne’s suggestion and also provide the plans of the floors above and below for clarification, then you can get more precise help. Weakening a beam by cutting openings is not a good idea. Nobody here is against you, and if you find the tone here less like a girls’ boarding school, then just don’t go into the green—just a precautionary hint. When someone makes a really good joke—I love dry humor, and for that and for warning imitators in time I have thanked you properly—then even I do not go to the basement to laugh.I had previously hired a structural engineer. Everything was planned and calculated as seen. So why should I be standing here, or what makes me a fool here? [/] I am not an expert and therefore specifically had the structural engineer come. He looked at everything and also received all the documents of the house. That I now have an unpleasant surprise is not tragic. [...] I was upstairs earlier, and these will be pipes for radiators. The bathroom is elsewhere and there is no drain in the wall. I would prefer to lay the two pipes outside or around them, possibly cut an opening at the top of the beam for this. The upper floor is mostly finished, so I would rather not open the floor again.