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That’s it skeiling. My house has deep skeiling and I’ve got to find a way of getting insulation into the area to have insulation on the plasterboard but leave an air gap above to let the tile underfelt breath.

What is it called when the pitched or pyramid roof rafters clip the outside edges of the upstairs rooms causing a cove between ceiling and wall at those edges. in the loft space when you go to the outside edges there is a ‘tunnel’ between the roof tile underlay membrane and the rooms...

Having spoken with the guy who sent me the report we have deduced that such a problem may have happened in the past. The protective bond wire runs from lead water pipe (true ground) to the gas pipe then on to the MET. The gas pipe is not grounded as it changes to plastic after the meter and into...

This is exactly how the report came in to me. The neutral line was of the order of 0.08 ohm to earth at the substation (and presumably the live the same). The water pipe was an earth ground of about 0.48 ohm to the neutral line (presuming 0.4 for ground earth and the 0.08 neutral back to...

EFL Impudence thanks for your thoughts. I could not reply with your words quoted (funnies with my browser) so I put your words between [ ] brackets. [It's not an earth; it is a bond because the pipe is earthed.] Okay, fair point, bond or protective wire then. (The green and yellow 10...

I have just been having this debate about strapping the earth to the gas pipe and was given the following reason for not doing it. Reg 543.3.1 says something about the earth protection/bonding wire not being mechanically supported by the service it is protecting. This reg is to ensure that a...