What is this pipe on our pool deck?

[Westside]

We have a mystery pipe on our pool deck in Southern California. Photos are here:

Mystery pipe on pool deck

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Do you think it contains electrical wires? If so, would it be 110V AC or 220V AC? It's located in a place that might be suitable for an outdoor (electric?) grill. Or perhaps it's a gas pipe, for a permanent BBQ/grill?

The markings on the top cap include the word KOREA. Other symbols look like a bell, and maybe the number 15 or 16. The round symbol I can't decipher.

The pipe's outside diameter is 0.37 inches.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated! Don't want to mess with it until I have a better sense of what's in there.

 

[telectrix]

unscrew the cap. if you smell gas, put it back on.

 

[snowhead]

It's either going to be gas or water.
Are you certain about the size, 0.37 inches, that would make it one eighth inch internal bore

 

[Megawatt]

We have a mystery pipe on our pool deck in Southern California. Photos are here:

Mystery pipe on pool deck

2 new items added to shared album

photos.app.goo.gl

Do you think it contains electrical wires? If so, would it be 110V AC or 220V AC? It's located in a place that might be suitable for an outdoor (electric?) grill. Or perhaps it's a gas pipe, for a permanent BBQ/grill?

The markings on the top cap include the word KOREA. Other symbols look like a bell, and maybe the number 15 or 16. The round symbol I can't decipher.

The pipe's outside diameter is 0.37 inches.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated! Don't want to mess with it until I have a better sense of what's in there.

That is not an electrical pipe, it is a water line that has been capped off. Nothing to worry about.

 

[telectrix]

That is not an electrical pipe, it is a water line that has been capped off. Nothing to worry about.

he could build a bidet over it.

 

[Mike Johnson]

As its on a pool deck it is probably a provision for a shower.

 

[telectrix]

why have a shower when youse just bin wet through in the pool?

 

[Mike Johnson]

Well in case you don't know, its to wash off your suncream before you get into the pool, so you don't leave an oily film around the edge of the pool, also useful to wash off the pool chemicals when you get out of the pool, so the accumulative effect does not rot the fabric on the loungers.

 

[telectrix]

i never use sun cream or pollute water with chemicals. United Utoiletries do enough as it is. tap water full of chlorine.

 

[Mike Johnson]

I bet you pollute water with hops?

 

[telectrix]

I bet you pollute water with hops?

only if my other leg hurts.

 

[Westside]

It's either going to be gas or water.
Are you certain about the size, 0.37 inches, that would make it one eighth inch internal bore

Thank you for mentioning this! The pipe OD is 7/8 inch not 3/8 inch. Does that change its chances of being gas vs. water?

 

[Megawatt]

Thank you for mentioning this! The pipe OD is 7/8 inch not 3/8 inch. Does that change its chances of being gas vs. water?

No if it was gas it would it would be black schedule 80 pipe. That is galvanized pipe. It’s a abandoned water pipe.

 

[Westside]

Thank you everyone for your responses. Much appreciated! May consider the bidet option...

 

[Westside]

Almost 2 years later, I have the answer -- it's a gas pipe.
Being galvanized and many decades old, its long underground run started leaking. The Gas Company rep had a meter, which led him along our pool deck (with drains) in the direction of this pipe stub.
So, I guess the idea was to provide for a BBQ, which nobody ever installed.
I found the run originating under the house, heading in that direction, and had it cut and capped there.
Thanks everybody for your comments here.