Question I am in dispute at the moment with my Surveyor and the building owners Surveyor over final inspection costs. The building owners Surveyor referenced a Counsels opinion and stated there was no requirement for a final inspection allowance to check the works as the works were deep excavation including a demolition of ... Read more >>
Categories: Adjoining Owners, Fees, Party Wall Awards, Surveyors, Third Surveyor
Question My neighbour will be starting work on a side return extension shortly and I am concerned about the water drainage and the build over of any pipe work. I understand that this is a separate agreement and part of the building control works. Is there anyway we can request/caveat that we want to see approved documentation for these ... Read more >>
Categories: Adjoining Owners, Party Wall Awards, Surveyors
Question My neighbours are extending in to their basement. Recently the drilling work has intensified and I’ve noticed a crack in the hallway. Should they be using a lower level of force in the drilling i.e. so the house is not shaking and creating cracks as they go? Answer You don’t say whether there is a party wall award in place but if ... Read more >>
Categories: Adjoining Owners, Compensation, Enforcement, Party Wall Awards, Rights of Owners, Surveyors
Question Just so I know, what exactly does the party wall award grant that is different from the schedule of condition and our assurance that if our work caused any new issues then we would rectify it? Answer A schedule of condition is a written record (usually supported by photographs) of the parts of an adjoining property that are likely ... Read more >>
Categories: Party Wall Awards, Surveyors
Question My neighbours have permission not only to build onto, but also to increase the height of, the wall at the end of my garden. Neither their builder or surveyor was aware that the level of our garden is higher than the plot and that the walls they are building onto will be effectively below ground or that they also bordered ... Read more >>
Categories: Adjoining Owners, Fees, Notices, Party Wall Awards, Rights of Owners, Surveyors
QuestionThis relates to 2 commercial properties, an open depot owned by my family and a single storey office block owned by another company. Our property has a tenant on a long term full repairing lease and we understand the office block is also rented.We understand that in the late 90's, prior to our ownership, our site underwent extensive ... Read more >>
Categories: Adjoining Owners, Party Wall Awards, Rights of Owners
Question I signed a party wall agreement allowing my neighbour to carry out a loft conversion and put in 3 steels. What I did not know is that the wall in the loft is single skin. The properties are terraced with a cavity wall to ground and first floor (which is a skin of bricks his side and a skin my side), however once you get into the roof ... Read more >>
Categories: Adjoining Owners, Party Wall Awards
Question I am doing a mansard loft conversion and two Adjoining Owners of the same property elected to appoint a surveyor. The head Leaseholder and Freeholders sent the valid notices to the same surveyor who signed the notices on their behalf appointing himself to act. He said that he could act on my behalf as well as agreed surveyor. I was not ... Read more >>
Categories: Fees, Party Wall Awards, Rights of Owners, Surveyors
Question Can you please advise if I can ask my surveyor to include asking my neighbour for the Building Regulations Approval details and the name & insurance details of the builder in the Party Wall Agreement? Answer Most party wall Awards will include a clause stating that the notified work should comply with all statutory requirements, ... Read more >>
Categories: Party Wall Awards, Rights of Owners, Surveyors
Question My neighbour is refusing to supply a copy of a 'Party Wall Agreement". In the beginning I complained that I did not want my neighbour to build his extension I then found it was a permitted development extension. Upon hearing that I had no ability to stop him I gave up. He then sent me a copy of the party wall agreement after ... Read more >>
Categories: Adjoining Owners, Party Wall Awards, Surveyors