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Wundafloor designed the loops / layout. We paid them for the design.

The entire 1st floor. Ground floor is all in anhydrite screed (something else I wish we’d done differently!).

I am hopeless at DIY. I look at YouTube videos and it all looks easy. Try it myself and it gets super fecked .

I have thought about replacing the whole frame / cistern for the loos I use most often if these are going to keep playing up so would go for that if it’s better longer term. I wouldn’t change them all as I barely use the rest.

Too late for me though. I am where I am. Good advice for others though In my defence only I paid the bills. Believe me there are no end of things I wish we’d done differently.

Melting now ........

Cool! He may hate you tho There may be enough to keep someone occupied for a month

Ok thanks. Is that where I get spares from too? I guess you have to get the exact cistern to fit the frame, so are restricted on make if you want to replace them? These seem much more annoying to have fixed than a normal loo TBH!

Trend?

Cheer up, you may be done before I get all my snagging sorted . I will bloody get it done tho even if it kills me

?? What make of toilet you mean? They’re pretty old (9 years).

I saw your epic thread in this section @Onoff! How far have you still got to go?

No idea of the make, sorry. A crap one I do have a photo of when they were being installed though if that helps?

I seem to be on a roll with plumbing woes in this house but all the plumbing seems to be a disaster area here. On top of the issues with the heating none of the cisterns work correctly here either, and there are a lot of them . They all seem to have the same issue mostly. I'm not sure whether it's because we had a bad batch or whether we had a bad plumber, or both! Essentially most of them seem to continue to run water once they have been flushed. I can stop it by continuing to press the button which eventually causes it to stop. I haven't yet been able to get a plumber out here to fix them (plus a few other bathroom related issues) but is it likely that I will need to replace the whole cistern, or can these things generally be fixed easily via spare parts? It just seems odd that all of them have the same problem pretty much (to varying degrees). I just want to ensure that I have an idea about the fix before someone tries to tell me something very different. Thanks .

I looked at the previous location plan from before the plot was divided. It clearly seems to demonstrate that there is an intended route to be taken in order to access the gate but it looks like when the plot was split and the new access route drawn up the parking position 'A' wasn't moved to the new intended area and was left in the middle of my neighbour's drive. How did 3 lawyers miss that?

I read that contractors can access in the definition of Railtrack in the below, but I am not prepared to let anyone access the property without being able to identify who they are. I don’t think anyone would stand for that.

Thank you. I know that I am going to have to be reasonable. My neighbours still think they can 'win' and the 48 hours notice will have to be provided which may be an issue . I'm peed off in truth but know that I need to reach a pragmatic solution with Network Rail. I could do with someone to look over the document and help me understand the details so I will look for a lawyer who can help me with that (although a bit bruised by the last one in truth). However that doesn't alter the action I will take with Network Rail as I have no reason to suspect that their legal team has assessed the Deed of Conditions incorrectly whereas my neighbours think that they have. They told me earlier that they have a letter from their own solicitor noting the 48 hours notice so that's 3 solicitors now! When the conveyancing was done I was commuting between Kent and Edinburgh working 7 days a week just to keep on top of work. I engaged a relatively expensive solicitor (who was recommended) as I imagined that I would be able to trust them to be thorough when I didn't have the time to be able to do too much myself. My company paid for the conveyancing (they offered me a new role up here so paid for the relocation) so it wasn't out of my pocket per se, but I still had an expectation that this would have been done properly, and of course I have to live with the consequences both in terms of living here and the implications when I come to sell. Off the top of my head (work in progress ) my wish list is for Network Rail to: Provide contractors who can be identified as genuine and respect that there are private houses here Give notice where possible (via email), especially for work scheduled to take place over a number of nights which will surely be scheduled in advance. Have Network Rail's own emergency track access line know who is scheduled to be on the track at this location if I call them - it would seem to me to be a safety issue if they don't know who is on the track at any time quite apart from the route taken to access the track. Agree to park in a new location in the corner of the hashed area if they need to park here (which is where I thought the parking arrangement was anyway). It's also why more room was left in the corner of the shared area. Have someone I can engage with in a reasonable manner if I have any concerns in the future. Then I move on .

Yes I get that but the trouble is I don't understand all of it, even now. There are pages and pages of it and when a lawyer who you specifically ask to check something out tells you about the parking area and the 48 hour notice period in a document that mostly only lawyers would understand you believe that you are paying for clear professional advice, because if you aren't then what's the point of a lawyer? My neighbour has left it to me to make the first contact which is why I have a follow up reply and they don't. I will call the Rail Track woman this week I think and try to agree a way forward.

Nah, those odds aren't good enough to go for that

The PP was a nightmare anyway by all accounts. The council changed their mind twice over the access route which is why next door's integral garage has a garage door both ends because originally the access was from the road, and then that was later blocked by the council after an uproar by the community council. Then access was across the front of the plots from the access gate but that was deemed to be too dangerous, and it finally ended up that they could only access via the back of the plot so a garage door was put on the back of the garage too. And it's why a garage was never in the original plans for my house as they couldn't decide where it could go, so we added one later on. They can't park on my front garden as it is a slope plus there is NO access allowed on and off these plots other than via the gate as noted in the PP. They can park in the corner of the hashed bit (which is where I thought they were allowed to park anyway). That wouldn't impede anyone's access but as soon as they drive on and see my empty parking area they just park there. I think a rope may be the answer as suggested further up. I bet the railway got a tiny tiny amount of money for these plots back in the day (1990 apparently). Makes you wonder why they didn't just hang onto it and have full use at all times without any stroppy house owners to deal with.

Yes I was given to believe that their only access was on the shared part and that they could park a single vehicle in the very corner of the blue hatched area which would be fine. I had never seen this version of the document before as it happens (only now that they have sent it). I only have a copy of the old version before the plot was split into 2. The 48 hours is noted in section 5 but they state that none of this section is relevant to these properties. It goes on forever and I thought it was all relevant but they claim not.

"Access cannot be obstructed and any obstructions must be removed and our staff will remove any padlocks and chains which impede their access". I've uploaded what I think is the wording they are noting from the deeds as it's the only thing I can see that mentions point A on the plan, and parking rights that they note in their letter. Point A isn't in blue though , it's on my neighbour's driveway. Confused.com - it needs a lawyer to look at it I think and make sense of it. Both of these scans are from the Deed of Conditions, so surely the plan must relate to the wording? Last time they came and the access line said that they couldn't say who they were I did send them packing, and my neighbour padlocked the gate, and then the legal letters started to arrive. I am annoyed with my solicitor mostly as anyone with legal training should surely be able to understand the deed of conditions?

Sadly not - they don't seem to give a stuff in truth. The vans don't have any markings generally, that's half the issue. They are white vans or contract hire vehicles that have logos to suit. The last one said SHB Vehicle Hire, and I asked at the time how I was supposed to distinguish a contractor from someone up to no good.

Not sure you would get a building warrant approved on that basis as they will check the internal layout for conformity surely?

I'm sure he would ask them to move but they don't park there because they know it blocks them in, they park in my parking area instead and it's down to me to tell them to move . Maybe a temp fence is the way forward. It would restrict my access but may get the message across.