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Electrician has done rewire, plumber with not much space has some central heating and hot water pipes touching in some places. See images attached. Shown is two rad pipes touching a phone & cat6 cable, central heating touching boiler earth & power, same with hot tap for sink resting on the cable.
What should I do here to try and minimise long term damage to cables? When you can't move the cables or pipes now.
 

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The best bet woukd be to wrap the pipes in something where the cables touch them.
Have a look at exhaust heat wrap, avialble quite cheap on ebay/amazon etc, it's a heat insulating cloth tape used to wrap around exhaust pipes in engine bays so will be more than up to this task.
 
As bove, just a small bit of lagging or something to space the pipe away from the cable where it touches.
Very simple cheap solution
 
on the pipe that isnt fixed to the joist, i could use this foam insulation from screwfix?
https://www.NoLinkingToThis/p/economy-pipe-insulation-15mm-x-13mm-x-1m/72357

ideally i need to pick somethign up today as the floor is getting sealed with ply/vinyl.
 
Just slide on tubular pipe insulation. A good plumber would have insulated all the pipes under the floorboards as part of the job.
This post is a perfect illustration of why I expanded my electrical contracting business to include plumbing and heating about 45 years ago.
 

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