It looks like most of the mortar is on the floor anyway I used to hate jobs like that. Pull more floor up. Bolt more timber in find more bodges. Plumber definitely did that if it was a sparks it would have wire tales everywhere and random newspaper clipping.
You know full well there’s a super injunction against that and those files are sealed for thirty years. I can’t discuss it. I’ve been offered a lot of money by the news of the world for an exclusive but with so many of the families finally managing to get some normality back I just can’t say anything. Except of course how was I supposed to know he hadn’t had the op yet.
I am pretty sure the National Trust found this at the top of the stairs on one of their properties where a cantilevered landing had been "improved" for central heating purposes by chopping the joists.