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What clips do people use for mounting 15mm copper pipe etc flush to the wall ?

Any timber cladding within 1m of the boundary is too much.

Regarding the extension. I very strongly recommend you talk to your neighbour about this at the earliest stage. It is already obvious to anyone with half a brain that digging such holes is a prelude to a building project. When you have some plans give your neighbour a copy and ask them about any concerns they may have. If they have concerns talk to your architect and see how they might be alleviated. It isn't always possible, but even the smallest modification to your plans will demonstrate that you are not selfish gits, but empathic members of the human race capable of trying to see things from the point of view of others and taking their concerns into account. Trust me, get off on the wrong foot - as our neighbours deliberately chose to do by sneakily submitting secret plans for approval the day before Xmas - and there is no way back.

I am not sure the comments above are clear enough. Yes you do not need to use Party Wall Surveyors to establish a Party Wall Agreement or Award. However to make sure you have some agreement that stands up to any scrutiny in the event of an incident, problem, or dispute arising, then I believe you should carefully follow the advice and guidance on complying with the Party Wall Act which is published on line. This includes various template documents to use for writing to your neighbour and gaining their agreement etc etc. Just pinging an email and getting an email 'ok' is unlikely to be good enough. You have to bear in mind the worst case - say you dig a hole and the neighbour experiences some structural damage ? Now he wants you to pay and you end up in dispute. An informal randomly worded email exchange will be worth naff all in court. When having to deal with my nasty neighbour and his PW Surveyor - the paperwork explicitly required people to give written signed consent to the use of email for example. Email can be a questionable tool which can and does get misused. Some people will email stuff at 6pm on a friday after you have just left for a 2 week holiday, then claim you didn't object, so they knocked down your boundary wall while you were away. Some people, like me. don't read emails every day or at weekends - because - because I am supposed to be retired and I have done my decades of slavery to email nonsense. For something to stand up in court I believe it should be sent registered post and signatures witnessed for example.

Don't know. They may also be interested in your plans to build a 2 storey extension.

So I have kitchen cabinet people saying they normally just stick the LED strip to the underside of the worktop. Worktop people say it can be stuck on the bottom, but they can also cut a rebate in the underside of the quartz, for which there is no standard size rebate, and customer needs to specify depending on strip size used. . Anyone have this in their kitchen ? I guess you do @nod - did you buy the strip ?

Anyone used LED strip under the edge of a kitchen worktop ? Does it need to be IP65 or is IP20 going to be fine ? Does it need to be 8mm wide, could I use 10mm addressable ? Need to rebate the underside edge of the work top ?

How it is going... Shelves to follow in due course.

Looking at the rooflight makes me concerned regarding the edges adjacent to the LED profile etc... The plaster is grainy/gritty adjacent to the profile and in places near the top bead. The profile was filled with a foam strip to keep it clean during plastering at the plasterers request - but maybe not a good idea ?

Bristol area.

Do you mean this type of metal tape...? https://www.screwfix.com/p/diall-reinforced-corner-jointing-tape-white-30m-x-50mm/981CF?tc=LA5&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=895557794&gbraid=0AAAAAD8IdPzVzwpk2ymfDGpaiBjB_P_U2&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIvOGIjqTCkAMVyYBQBh1kaAggEAQYAiABEgJG6vD_BwE Oddly people referring to using it on external corners, but we have metal beads on those.

Well walls are largely plastered already - some hardwall, one wall boarded - see pics. They put mesh in at the junction when they plastered the walls. Too late to change plasterers, I already changed once. They have been plastering for 12 years. All I can say is they are better than the original one the builder had. Not perfect, but not as bad. It actually seems quite difficult to judge plastering as the walls tend to look perfect when freshly plastered, only when dry does the odd flaw show up.

So we will have no coving in our open plan room. Are there any techniques, tips, advice etc for getting the plasterers to produce good straight lines at the junction between walls and ceiling ? (Almost seems surprising there isn't some kind of bead to assist with this) PS We currently plan to paint the ceiling white and the walls a different off white light shade - not 'elephant's breath', but you know what I mean)

Have we been here before ? If we all turn a blind eye to people breaking the law, then we are all the same as the law breaker are we not ? Policing depends upon consent. We can't expect the police or regulator to implement the law if none of us can be arsed to. That weird guy waving a machete out on the road - concerned yes - affect you no - not until they murder your relative or friend. This is on my land remember - what happens when it collapses and a builder ends up badly injured ? (They are building a wall 4m high, so a 2.5m platform on tressels ?) I think I'll remind them of their duty to comply with all H&SE requirements. (Presumably their liability insurance will be invalid if they don't?)

Neighbour's builder proposing to build wall by standing on tressels used to create a platform. Should I be concerned by this ? Does it comply with H&SE regulations ?