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Rooms differ

London homes vary in age, construction and later alteration. A description of brick, lath, plasterboard or a typical stair is a description of patterns, not a finding about a particular wall or flight. Measurements you take yourself govern your room. Figures mentioned as common conventions, such as a usual carcase depth, are not a specification for a product you own.

Leaflets, leases and competent people

The leaflet supplied with an item is the instruction for that item, including restraints, clearances and assembly order. Appliance clearances belong in the appliance papers. Questions about a lease, a freeholder’s consent, a party wall or a listed building are not answered here. This is not legal advice. Where a wall, a flue, a floor or a service needs a judgement, that judgement belongs with a person competent to make it, or with the building’s managing agent, not with a general article.

No outcome is promised

We do not promise a fit, a fixing or a finish, and we do not present a note as a finding about every wall. You are responsible for how you use the notes. To the extent the law allows, attorneyatworkweekly is not liable for loss arising from reliance on them. Nothing on this site excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded.

The name of the site

The publication is called attorneyatworkweekly. That name does not mean the site is a legal practice, a public authority, or an installation firm. The publisher can be reached at 162 Tufnell Pk Rd, London N7 0EE, on +44 20 7267 0163, and at support@attorneyatworkweekly.com.

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Situations this publication leaves alone

The building

Structure, fire separation, flues, party walls, listed-building consent, and the meaning of a lease are outside these notes. A sentence about a chimney breast is a warning to treat it as uncertain, not a finding that yours is solid or hollow.

The services

Gas, electrics and plumbing are not furniture assembly. Positions are mentioned so that a carcase is not drawn on top of them. The notes do not describe how to alter them.

The product

Where a leaflet and a page on this site could be read as disagreeing, follow the leaflet for that product. Our pages describe checks that apply before you reach a product-specific step.

The name

attorneyatworkweekly is the title of this publication. It is not a solicitor’s practice and not a company carrying out installation. Correspondence at the published address is about the text.