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I would have thought that gas would always be cheaper than oil? Don’t know if you live in the sticks but oil can be stolen,

I am guessing it’s bottled gas?

I’d hesitate to say “no” but if it was me I’d do it within a year? Maybe get a roofer in? If the tiles have to come off, summer is a good time.

My brother had this. Concrete tiles replacing the lighter slate. They had internal bracing done - not sure if they had the tiles taken off and refitted? It is a common issue.

I am no roofer but that wouldn’t worry me. If I was fitting that and spotted it, I’d maybe put it aside but there may be loads done by the time it was spotted? Changing one can be tricky

You could knock something up with key clamp? Loads of places will cut the tube as part of the mail order, you only need to assemble with an Allen key. Square or round galvanised, some is powder coated. To be honest, you could use glue fit poly plumbing pipe and fittings, although less robust...

Yellow tennis ball

You need more brackets.

Motorcycle inner tube. Cut to 1M length Remove 1M from down pipe. Jubilee clip to pipe bottom

You could easily divert that pipe up high to come around the corner and down, or even at waist height. You’d gain 4” You could make /find a metal bracket to protect the pipe physically but potentially damage the car/ lose space. You could stick a 1M bendy rod in the ground in front of the pipe...

Personally, I think you’d be mental to get rid of that. I have parquet in my through lounge and hallway.

I don’t have any experience myself, but I’d suggest asking the neighbours for contacts, ideally someone that did theirs. Depending on the build, you might not need to much engineering done, probably just a small beam.

Do any neighbours have a similar door opening? Checking that it isn’t a load bearing wall is necessary. So long as there is a reasonable amount of wall left in place it isn’t too complicated. You might need to make/modify a door casing to fit the doors as they could be a specialised size..

That’s been my moto. From the age of about 18 I wore jeans and a black T shirt. Close to 66, Still the same. I have about 25 T shirts, all black. I buy packs of sock that are all black and the same. Getting dressed involves zero thought, other than which leg goes into which hole in my jeans...

A mate bought a house and had a housewarming. One of our friends realised that they had known the son of the previous (maybe previous previous) owners. The whole house had been Bucknalled. The staircase, fireplaces, all the doors were hard boarded. The house was 1850’s and eventually my mate...

Do you live in a side street or a busier road? Some houses near me that have higher walls also have their driveways pulled back from the road. By that I mean that the owner’s frontage curves to provide better sight lines. Effectively recessed gates. But you might need planning - it’s worth asking

In that case, high railings might help? A few houses near me have walls and railings. The trick would be to get the “lift” of rubbish too high to bother. It was a long time ago, but my family home was built in the original kitchen garden of a Victorian house and so our front and back walls were...

In an ideal world, you don’t want the rockwool touching the plasterboard. Also, ideally, double skin the plasterboard with staggered joints. Use filler when the first layer is done, so you have two distinct layers

I tend to agree that any “preventative “ will simply provide a more convenient place to dump stuff. However the idea of trellis is good. You could use posts screwed to the rear of the wall to support trellis - be aware that vandals could use it as a lever (but unlikely) A local fence supplier...

There are companies that do really big ground screws and the installation. The screws for a garden type building are about a metre long. I saw them on YouTube.