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charles wrote:
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On Thursday, 6 June 2019 23:30:44 UTC+1, DerbyBorn wrote:
Paramount walls? ie egg box?
No - a rather poor version - just plasterboard sandwich with scraps as
the filler.

I have a brick version of that. My lounge socket disappeared into the
kitchen.

A great mnay years ago, by BiL was fitting a cooker unit in the party wall
to next door. Suddenly the brick he was chiselling shot away and the
neighbours looked through the hole and said "Will you take your brick out
of our bath"


When my next door neighbour (several versions removed) was having central
heating fitted, the plumber knocked a hole through the party wall in the
cellar. Presumably to allow long lengths of pipe to then be cut to size
more easily. At that end of the cellar, you can only crawl, not stand. And
they'd put the boiler in the ouside loo - after removing the pan and
cistern.

And that's how I came to have a rat or two. And smells from the drains.

On finding the hole and bricking it up, I could see, through the wall, a
couple of the new pipes leaking nicely. ;-)

They got another firm in to sort things out - including stopping vermin
access to the cellars via their new patio doors.

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