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If you build a false wall it has to be totally isolated from the "real" wall. Not touching it and mounted on fastenings made for sound proofing.

Try it all with a que of traffic and a couple of buses behind the van...

Next door said it came in through the window, i asked him just now..... (small Cornish terraced house, right on the road)

Not as silly as it sounds. Our bathroom is upstairs, and one day i will need to replace the bath. The stairs are narrow and the bathroom is round to the left at the top and it looks very much like a bath wouldn't to go up them (certainly our double bed would not!) I assume the bath came in...

yep or a chimney linner company... make sure they know what your intending to burn.

Superglue comes off with water (yes really)..it sets in the presence of water, so soak it with water so that it goes crumbly and white then it easy to pick off... maybe warm water soaked cloth or flannel for a few hours...or as mentioned superglue remover from a hardware shop.

ive always just mixed up a bucket and thrown it on, scrubbed which a deck scrubber.

Well why not, the stone isnt going to move about.

Im not sure but i would, sow in poor soil (in a pot) and under dappled shade (netting etc) and leave them to get "frosted" as they would in the wild, many wild seeds need the frost on them to germinate.

We planted a Eucalyptus in our field five years ago, it was thumb thick now its a tree that our six year old and wife can climb...its huge!..But be warned it wont stop at 5 meters.

tail gate struts from scrap car?

They use Oxalic acid on Teak yacht decks that brings them back to bright new. I think chandlers and places like Homebase sell stuff called teak restorer, which is similar stuff.

try "Brush restorer"...

Probably you wont want to but what i did in our seemingly undrillable wall in the bed room was, stick some wood up with "no more nails" and screw into that.

Its not dead, till its been "dead" a couple of years!.... maybe its just in shock, id leave it til next year see if it puts out anything in spring.

How about approaching the council and seeing if it can be used in some way. Or planted by them?.. it might not even be owned by them!

umm cant beat that smell!

When does a log fire become a log stove?...... there's the rub ah. As i said personally id just do it and worry latter. If the chimneys been emitting smoke for years, the worse that will happen is that it'll be less smokey with a stove. As for legal sanctions, i don't know, but id presume it'll...

yes oilman is right...you must remember to ignor them too.... just remember..."its always been like that"....

more or less.... you need a metal plate up the chimney connecting on the going up side to the liner and rigid pipe from the stove connecting to the former fires side of the plate.... the pipes range from "how much!" to "Daylight robbery"... ie enameled pipes with fittings etc to double lined...