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My family have a planning issue. They were granted a change of use permission for land to the rear of their garden but permitted developement rights were removed as the land partly bordered the rear of the neighbours land. In effect we have to apply for permission for every thing, ie garden...

Apologies if posted wrongly but can't find a section specifically fro drain queries. Situation is we have a totally blocked drain carrying water of 1/2 a big roof. The drain has been blocked for a good while by the look of it, (only bought recently and still under renovation). I can only...

Doing a development for the family. 5 bed house. Original toilet waste stack vent runs to above 1/2 roof level so good. Added ground level toilet direct into drain (existing) with no vent. OK? The new bit is a secondary 1st floor toilet, approx 6metres from the primary one. The builder...

Can anyone give me a basis rundown on any regs re fire protection in a house where the stairs lead up from the kitchen. It's a five bed house on two storeys, the kichen has doors of to the dining room hall and outside. Their is no door to the stairs ie they are open top and bottom. Mains...

Kev and Bengy, your views not required as you seem intent on rubbishing all I post. Situation now is that we have an Alpha 280e providing hot water and ch into the expanded property. The boiler is technically "just" on top of the job, and after being recomissioned yesterday is heating the...

Inspite of the abuse I'll no doubt attract from several regulars on here who seem intent on rubbishing all I post, I'm back with another plumbing/gas query. During recent renovation work an external gas pipe was ripped out to allow for roof lowering, rendering etc. They also damaged the low...

Topic now locked, Aas the OP I have been verbally assaulted by several established members of this forum and wish to continue the debate or even argument. If the forum regulators feel this is not fitting maybe they could comment on the attitude of such as Kevplumb or Bengas. Does...

Hi, any advice on the above please. We have a fairly large concrete slab and several box rooms off giving an area of about 10mtrs x 5mtrs. The room is ground floor and we have built over, the cieling height having been raised at this time so ideal to raise the floor and insulate. The...

Hi, can anyone help difuse a potential problem with our contracter/plumber? As basically as possible we are renovating a fairly good sized house. The builders ripped out an existing 28mm gas main that ran 8 metrs through the property. It supplied a 100btu CHB and tee'd off to feed a 5kw...

We have a problem with a replacement back boiler. Its a Glow Worm Miami 4. Everytime the boiler isn't used for a while the flue sensor device appears to get blocked by condensation. Removing the silicone tube and sucking/blowing clear allows the boiler to be reset. Is this common? Any...