I've been told by gas engineers that they wouldn't fit a gas fire without a flue-liner in case it kills someone. I've been to my doctor and requested a letter to show to the Environmental Health but she wouldn't supply me with one. Something about having to cover her back (etc. ad nauseum). That was last summer. Then, the old tenants moved out and the Landlord did a lot of work to the house and I got better and came off most of my medication. The new tenant moved in about 3-4 weeks ago and I began to have the same old problem with gas fumes coming into my house. The tenant won't speak to me and the Landlord accuses me of being crackers and that it's all in my imagination but when the chimney repair guys went up there, last summer, they had to bomb-test the chimney but the tenants wouldn't answer the door (even though they knew we knew they were at home!) so they had to bomb-test it from my side removing the cap from the neighbours chimney to do it.

When they did they said there was no flue-liner in the chimney and got back on to Environmental Health who did nothing!Today I could see that someone had put an aerial and a sattelite dish on my side of the chimney and not knowing what to do I called the police but it's a Civil matter apparently so I need, you guessed it, a solicitor!

I've already tried my MP.
It seems that the Law is on his side. He's entitled to use his chimney minus a flue-liner but he's not allowed to pollute my air-space only it's getting someone to act on my behalf that's the problem. No-one can enter the property unless he asks them to. This side of the street suffers when it comes to wind-direction, etc. The other side gets nothing so I'm stuffed! On top of that Rossendale Borough Council is full of Common Purpose lackeys.

Cripes, that's terrible. I hope you get that sorted out soon, because that kind of prolonged exposure to carbon monoxide is not going to do you any good at all! Kinda wish there was something I could do to help.

I don't really know what to do with this research project in terms of encouraging people to chip in. We could really use a separate sub-forum off the main screen that only invited members can post in; like this, but with

longer posts (ironically :P ). I don't know anything about PHP or SQL to be able to run a separate site myself, so we need to figure something out. Is anyone on good terms with any of the Mods that we could discuss this with them, or does anyone know someone with skills in hosting/running this kind of forum?

i'm up for contributing but dont have that much spare time at the moment, I agree that short posting space is an issue. and will try to be more concious of checking this area regularly

You could PM one of the moderators to discuss such a project. I believe there are similar ideas that have previously been put into practice.

OK, I've been hunting around for about 10mins now and can't find out - does anyone know who they are so that I can PM them? I'm willing to do the leg-work with the mods to get this going, but I can't seem to find anyone to talk to about it?

If you click on User CP then at the bottom of the page on the right-hand side where it says Forum Jump click the arrow and down the list you can see there are people doing research projects. Anyhow click on one of the topics under the heading Main Forums and at the bottom right you'll see a list of the moderators that are on-line. You can ask any of them about what you want to know.

Sweet, thanks. Just PM'd UFOChick to see what options are available to us. I'll keep you posted. ^_^

I'm having to stay out of the house because the fumes are so bad. I'll try to log on in my local library but if I can't don't get too worried if I'm not posting here much.