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Thanks guys...He's on some sort of disability benefit - for depression or bi-polar or some other condition; doesn't stop him driving two cars and 'working' in his garden (though what he's actually doing I'm not sure...) Anyway - that's battle number one to me. Now I can chase him for the...

Finished & Decorated

Render base coat

After Hacking Off

Water Damage

Update: Gas Safe sent their guy to carry out a visual inspection on the 6th of June. He measured the distance from the flue terminal to the boundary at 125mm - way under the limit. He promised to put his findings in writing, but he also said he'd be making a couple of phone calls - and I...

Ok - Gas Safe have been as helpful as they can, within their remit - which is pretty limited, actually. They've written to him twice, to offer him a free safety check but he's ignored them, as I knew he would. So they phoned me yesterday and arranged to carry out a visual inspection from our...

Right... well the council's Environmental Health Department passed my complaint onto their complaints department, who failed to answer a single (9 of them) points I raised, but suggested I write to Gas Safe (this after telling me in an email weeks ago, that Gas Safe are powerless to act...) But...

Thanks both of you.... it's descended into a tit for tat exercise now: a woman from the council called yesterday, to investigate a complaint about noise - apparently coming from our house. It was the w*nker next door. The substance of the complaint? Our wc is flushed several times in the night...

The Environmental Health Department got back to me, dismissing the statutory nuisance claim (as I expected they would,) but I have to say, the letter is obviously written by someone who hasn't a clue, and has made so many errors in their assessment that they'll have a hard job justifying it to...

Thanks Tony. Agree on both counts. The 140mm I quote is from the centre of the party wall to the edge of the flue outlet, as you can see. Not sure if you meant the metal edge of the flue terminal overall. The boundary is actually behind his soil pipe, about 30mm from the right hand edge of...

Thanks, but it's parallel to the boundary, not facing it, so 300mm in this case (I think.)

Right, Glowworm have got back to me: the distance allowable from a soil pipe is 25mm, as some have pointed out (thanks.) What isn't clear from the M.I. is that it applies with or without a PMK; it simply states "The minimum siting dimensions for the terminal positions, A, B, C stated in the...

Anyway, I'll keep on at Glowworm, then try Gas Safe, assuming their M.I's don't overrule regs (but can't see how the 300mm to boundary reg could really be overruled.) If I get nowhere, I'll refer the whole thing to the Local Government Ombudsman, on the grounds that Environmental Health...