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That was our thinking, but he was insistent. However, after speaking to a party wall expert, who reiterated what we thought, he has accepted that the party wall act is not applicable. So we have typed a letter re access and our promise to make good any damage. All good....for now until the back...

When we bought the property, the previous owners' stated that this boundary was his. Not sure how we go about establishing this. Later we are going to replace patio and will have to re fence as patio needs to be lowered. This could get more interesting as we would want to re establish definite...

We would need access, and we were happy to write a statement re any danage caused, but he insists it is a party wall act issue. The irony is he has previously put a fence up attached to back of garage which does not go in line with garage boundary face/wall, encroaching on our garden, to the...

Early morning typing! Sorted.

We are going to replace the flat roof on our garage with a pitched roof. The garage sticks out at the front of the house and, facing from the front, the left side of the garage wall is the boundary between us and our neighbour's front open garden. We are opting for boxed guttering as he didn't...

Are they all equally sound in terms of structure? Would it be better to go for double skin or is that an unnecessary expense?

We have a flat roof garage joint on to the house at the front. We want to remove the old roof and replace with a pitched roof. The garage wall goes right up to the boundary so we are having to do box/concealed guttering on that side. It is single skin, but an architect has said it is fine with...

I am starting the process of elimination...problem is things like freezer, as the tripping seems to only happen once a day/ every other day! Will start with others as use up freezer contents, then go for that last.

To clarify: we had an earth rod put in on advice of electrician. It now seems we didn't need that if we were going underground. We do have pme but kept earth rod as guy said would do no harm and can never have too much earthing! No tripping after rid, only tripping since moving of cables, meter...

Freezer is about eight years old, fridge the same. The freezer would be my first elimination, but it hasn't been causing trips before this work was done. Could this work have made the RCD more sensitive?

Ok thanks. The earth road has been in for 3 months with no tripping. Only since meter moved and tails have we had tripping. One thing that I just noticed is that the electrician has put all switches to on whereas a couple were off before as they were not needed. I will put those to off to see if...

Images as requested - thanks. The fuse box photo is upside down for some reason and where the tails go to the meter outside is sideways!

Will have a go! The meter is now in a white box on the outside wall and the fuse box on inside of garage. I will take a pic and try to load it!

Always had RCD - the whole fuse box is fairly new. Had whole system, plugs etc checked couple of months ago when they put in new earthing rod. There was no tripping until last week when the tails were put in, cables underground and meter moved. If it was appliances wouldn't we have experienced...

We have been in our house for a few months. We had a full electrical inspection done and an earthing rod was put in. We then had the overhead power cables put underground, so the meter was relocated into white box on outside of garage, not too far from where it had been inside the garage. An...