Gone West

Do you have a fireplace that has a chimney in that stack or is that solely for his use? If you have use of that stack then it's shared and the centre line of the stack is the boundary. If the stack is entirely his, then the boundary would normally be on your side of the stack. I say normally because there are cases where the boundary can dog-leg inside the houses.

If it's his mast on your chimney stack did you give him permission to put it there?

I don't know anything about Green Belt law but there does seem to be some logic about the argument, although I'm not sure logic comes into Planners decisions.

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The local farmer here got permission to double the size of the footprint of his farmhouse because he found a 1930s map showing a much larger dwelling on the site.

Does the chimney stack serve your property only and is the TV aerial mast yours?

The only attenuator we have is on the supply side as shown in the first picture. There is a very small amount of fan noise on the extract side if you are near an extract vent. I didn't think it was worth fitting an attenuator on the extract side but if I was doing it again I probably would fit one. We haven't experienced any cross talk from room to room.

Our MVHR is part of a Genvex compact unit and cannot be heard when running at normal speed which is what it does most of the time. We have found it unnecessary to use boost even when having a shower or bath so why your boost would come on at night I don't understand. Most excess noise is caused by the system being commissioned incorrectly and having too high a ventilation rate. Our house is also a timber frame construction.

Back in the 90s I took out a large window and the wall underneath and replaced with french doors. I didn't alter the lintels and when I sold the house nobody questioned anything. How would they know what was there originally.

Thanks all for your help. It's all back together again and working as normal. It's an RWC Floguard DCV so not cheap but from the picture looks like what @PeterW suggested. I am going to try to find a dimensioned sectional drawing of it to check the diameter of the plastic cup.

You'll be lucky, wait till Monday.

@PeterW Sorry for being slow, I see what you mean now. So half of one of the spheres on the DCV has somehow passed through the PRedV. Hopefully the other sphere is still working to prevent backflow and the other half of the broken sphere is still attached inside the valve.

I guess that means it's no longer working if it's that.

There's a 28mm double non-return valve before the stop cock. The butterfly valve ball is closed and not leaking.

Don't worry it'll be winter again tomorrow and for the next few days.

Do you mean the seal that the ball sits in. It's a 3/4" full bore so wouldn't the seal be more than 15mm diameter. https://www.bes.co.uk/ball-valve-3-4-bsp-p-f-x-f-red-butterfly-handle-11768#product-details-tab

@Nickfromwales @PeterW or any other plumbers. Any ideas before I connect it up again, please.

I don't think so. IIRC the s/s ball sits in a nylon type seal and it's a 22mm full bore valve so larger than 15mm. Everything still works okay, the ball valves and pressure reducing valve. I'm at a loss to explain it.

The water supply slowly stopped working over about a two minute period. I isolated the problem to the water softener and found there was no water entering the softener although there was plenty of pressure. I disconnected the pipe feeding the softener and found a small plastic cup 15mm diameter completely blocking the end of the flexible hose to the softener. Upstream of where the plastic cup lodged is the softener ball valve, pressure reducing valve, stop cock and double check valve. Could the plastic cup have come from the pressure reducing valve or even from somewhere in the supply pipework outside the property? The pipework etc has been connected and in use for at least two and a half years without being altered. I would like to have an idea before I connect everything up again because I’m very puzzled.

Horsetail roots can go down 2m and I dug up horsetail roots that were over a metre long in my front garden. The best way to get rid of the stuff is to dig it up very carefully. If only a very small bit of root is left in the soil it will grow again. In grass I've used Bayer lawn weedkiller which was quite effective but haven't seen it around recently. I've also used SBK and Roundup.

We have a triple glazed roof window in our bathroom and I specified a g value of 0.3 for the glazing. We don't have any problems with overheating.

I use SBK for all tough weeds like ivy.

Hi, welcome to the forum. Good luck with your project and as Bob Ross says 'We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

I used an asbestos testing kit from Amazon which was straightforward to use and got the results quickly. I only needed one sample. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Asbestos-Sample-Testing-Instructions-Postage/dp/B0862B9JZB/ref=pd_sbs_60_2/257-5754822-6372126?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B0862B9JZB&pd_rd_r=e1648fa7-1647-4e30-9167-e6eaa20b1bba&pd_rd_w=C3uBz&pd_rd_wg=JGSt7&pf_rd_p=2773aa8e-42c5-4dbe-bda8-5cdf226aa078&pf_rd_r=39SWX28RMWZSXXT9YXRR&psc=1&refRID=39SWX28RMWZSXXT9YXRR

I used mine for gaps just like those.