Recent content by akist

It was not teed-off my pipe, it appears it ran from the street and under my drive, for about 30 meters, then veering off under flowerbeds and terraces into the neighbour's land, under his drive and eventually to his gas meter. It is unreasonable to expect myself to know and take precautions...

I presume this was done in the 80s when the two houses (mine and neighbours) were originally built. Someone at that time must have given them permission. I will email them yes.

If you recall, a couple of weeks ago we broke through a yellow gas pipe. The gas pipe fed a neighbour's house, and its presence was unknown to us, as it travelled a significant distance under my driveway, which is a very odd thing as the neighbour's house has its own driveway. The pipe...

If I am not mistaken there is no requirement for having fans permanently operating. I could have vents over all windows and keep them shut, and could have extractor fans in utility rooms, kitchen, bathrooms and keep them all switched off.

The ground is sloping upwards to the left of the photo. There is a terrace/flowerbed on the left of the photo and a retaining wall (which I am rebuilding). They originally passed the pipe "under" the terrace. I removed part of it and exposed the pipe. Without the flowerbed the pipe is above...

The glove was used to stop any dirt going into the dead part of the pipe in case they needed to connect it back. On the live side of the pipe we used a yellow end cap fitting I luckily had lying around. But gas pressure is very low, I think it is like 60 mbars before the gas meter compare this...

And why do we need a utility room fan, come what may? We do not cook in the utility and we have window and door.

SGN said are coming tomorrow to disconnect this gas pipe completely and dig out a new path to service the neighbour (as it should have originally been). I hope they fix it tomorrow! Currently they left it with barriers all around (exactly where I am digging my new wall foundations).

No tape, nothing. The ground is sloping upwards. The pipe was at ground level if it were not for some flowerbeds hiding it. I tried to take some quick photos before the SGN guys tried to move it. As you can see the right side of the spirit level, this is where it obviously is at ground level...

Digging my front drive to put foundations in for a retaining wall, cut through the neighbour's gas pipe (yellow). Pipe is completely in my land and to make matters worse it is dug in very shallow, and I have been planning to lower the ground levels at that location. Can I request SGN either...

My BCO has demanded a fan if the bathroom is new, regardless of a window, and said a fan is not needed if the bathroom has a window and it is old (for example refurbished as part of more general work). To me, it sounds like a very grey and discretionary area. Especially paragraph 3.31 3.31 If...

OK now I understand, thanks for the explanations. I am going to leave it as is then.

I have installed a fan in the utility room because building control have asked me for it. The fan comes on with the lights and has a timer overrun. I have put a double wall switch on the wall, one button is the lights + fan, the other is fan on/off (disconnects the fan's permanent live). The...

Can I close the door "I promise not to use it" ? Or, "I promise not to use it until a fan is fitted" ?

I have a small bathroom and next to it a small guests toilet. They are not vented because they are in the middle of the house downstairs. I need to arrange for final inspection and not sure what to do about this. We have other bathrooms in the house and not really use these two, but I suppose...