Kitchen Island: How to run water and power to an island
I am gutting my kitchen and want to create a kitchen island. I am exploring the best ways to get water and power to the island without disturbing the radiant pipes in the slab. Any suggestions?
Good news, I guess. You can put your water pipes in the same hole you will need to jack-hammer for the drain you're putting in. The electrical will have to go in another excavation, or through the roof.
There are plenty of radiant heat experienced contractors on this site. I can understand your desire to leave the slab alone.
Not sure this will be relevant to your case, but...
There was a support post at one end of the "island" of my original kitchen. A previous owner had a gas line'pipe run from outside the exterior kitchen wall (where the gas was located) over the roof and down along the post making the line invisible from most angles. They didn't, but if I'd kept it, I'd have boxed it in so it just looked like a slightly thicker post. I've seen such boxing of posts (and sometimes beams) done in other homes to hide wiring for lights, etc. and it worked quite well.
Don't know if your planned island location is anywhere near a post or if you could add a false "post" to disguise electrical, water, or gas lines but thought I'd mention it.
Good luck and don't forget to post pictures :-)
Jake
