"Kev Parkin" wrote in message
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(Apologies if this double posts - tried once and google crashed)!

I have just got back from a long weekend away to find that my
neighbour has installed a cooker hood flue (at eye level) and a boiler
flue (at first floor level) through the external wall of his house
that bounds my property.

He sounds like a right #. He didn't want you to have the opportunity to
refuse permission obviously. The houses on the site I am working at
all have similar utility problems(?) like that. I would have queried
that if I was buying one of them. One inmate even had the washing
machine outlet from next door pouring into the trap for it with a
section of the outlet missing and no attempt to put the pipe through the
grid in the trap.

How the surveyor missed that escapes me. Perhaps he is liable? I have no
idea of the legality of it all but there is a thread on here somewhere
about not getting into disputes with your neighbours if you want to sell
up.

If you do want to persue it psyche yourself up to take no nonsense. If
you are unhappy with it, tell him and stick to your guns. DO NOT GIVE AN
INCH! Don't smile and don't apologise in any respect. Just state your
case plainly and curtly and leave it at that. Don't allow any argument
to develop. If he wants to discuss it further let him do it later.

Just say next time you see him: "Look; I'm not hapy with this, so and so
and so and so." Then just walk away. Don't speak your mind don't tell
him your reasoning, just explain what you are unhappy with. It isn't a
dispute and you haven't given any ground or tried to second guess him.

The onus is then on him.

That in my considerable opinion is how to handle most events of that
nature. (That and breaking windows.) Too many people these days don't
know where the boundaries are, because too many people are afraid to put
their feet down.


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