Hi, curious if anyone here knows about the water pipe at condo yard area. Is it not recommended to cover it up and in future it would leak for sure?

Anyone knows what is it used for? For upper floors washing waste or toilet waste?

Reason being is that on certain condo kitchen is too short so will need to extend it to yard area so most of these types of design will then have to use plaster board to close it up so the extended kitchen will not look weird.

Example highlighted in red is the water pipe enclosed through cabinet and plaster board.

What is the pipe used for?

Does it fail easily and requires repairs in our lifetime ? Concerned if covered it would mean having to redo the kitchen if there’s any prob

Hi this is how it looks like. The place is 5 years old. And I see some green stuff at the top part so I assume it would have prob again even if fixed for now

That’s what I think too. But I’m not sure how much I need to allocate for it to be accessible. The pipe diameter is about 20cm. I was thinking allocate 30cm to cover it with a front door just in case few years down the road got prob again. Do you think that’s big enough to access it from the side? Maybe one day need to cut off the whole pipe