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200m? You're joking. Planners don't like something so they make objections up as they go along to block it. Are the objectors mates of somebody?

If what you say is true i.e. he connected a gas appliance without conducting a tightness test, and it gets even worse as that connection then leaked, he needs to be retrained and reassessed and should be suspended by Gassafe until that happens. If a DIYer did that then all hell would fly and...

600 mm has one significant figure, therefore 598mm rounds to 600mm, so 600mm it is. Do I pass?

The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998: Testing of appliances 33.—(1) Where a person installs a gas appliance at a time when gas is being supplied to the premises in which the appliance is installed, he shall immediately thereafter test its connection to the installation...

Put a sheet of hardboard under the carpet. Ah, I am of course talking nonsense....

What do your other two quotes say?

Are you doing 'best of five' ??

This is the way surveyors think when they have to survey a property. 1) I'm going to write as little down as possible and definitely nothing that is going to get me sued. 2) I'm going to write as little down as possible and definitely nothing that is going to get me sued. 3) What's the...

Putting bacofoil between the chipboard and the floor covering (lino??) will not reduce heat flow downwards, you are far better using it for your Sunday roast. If you do insulate under the suspended floor be careful about any pipes under there and make sure you don't insulate them from the...

BS7671 simply specifies (among other things) that a joint has to be insulated - it doesn't specify how, it doesn't require a product data sheet, and the heat shrink most electricians use and buy at Screwfix doesn't come with one either. The way to find out if a joint is insulated is to carry...

He's got building control involved so the drains will be looked at. Reading between the lines he needs to get a proper builder in.

Of course it complies with BS7671. Are you saying using PTFE isn't appropriate? If your olive is leaking you fix the problem and don't bodge it with PTFE :)

I wouldn't pay an engineer to tell you to put those bricks back. We've got a 7m soil pipe boxed into our kitchen ceiling alongside a bit fat steel beam and nobody knows it's there. If you chop a 100mm horizontal channel into the inner leaf of a cavity wall how are you going to stop the...

They say you should spend as much money on the hole as on the plant.

PTFE is an excellent insulator as well, so if you've just crimped some twin and earth and don't have any heatshrink at hand, wrapping the joint with tape will help stop those pesky electrons getting out so you can bury it in the wall!

If you don't feel confident with a chainsaw then I'd have at it with a bow saw first and see what happens. Good exercise too. Those petrol multi tools that come with a pruning attachment on the end of a long pole are useful for DIY use around the garden. Not sure about a 12 inch trunk though...

Do as burnerman suggests and get some loctite 55 string. PTFE tape is there to lubricate, not seal. The olive should also seal by compression alone onto the pipe. If it doesn't then you need to find out why and fix it, not wrap PTFE around it.

A failure in the network is as you say not worth worrying about, but it's still got more chance of killing you than capacitive coupling in your house wiring!! Just because a piece of metal is at 230 volts wrt ground doesn't mean it's dangerous. If electricity worked that way then people would...

Hard to know what the sizes are as OP refused to answer the simple question, but inbuilt fridges can have fill the whole unit and exhaust the heat via a vent/grille at the bottom. Best answer is to replace with longer flex as morg suggested.

Wouldn't make any difference, you'd still approach it in the same way as you already have. All would happen in practice is you might need a few more circuits. Ca is the chemical symbol for Calcium. Ia is the fault current. Get a copy of the OSG and it will lead you through the process.