Recent content by joanne64

Thank you. I am hoping my surveyor will come back with something useful in his report that I can take to a solicitor with party wall expertise. Not sure how much technical resolution I'm going to get unless my neighbours can be forced to reveal what is under their false kitchen ceiling and...

I think he is just trying to claim that the reason the floor cracked is because it was laid on a wonky base. Nothing to do with movement of the floor, which he has said is 'unproven'. He is asking the question 'was a screed used?' (just like he asked about flexible grout) and clearly if I say...

Sorry, didn't mean to trickle out the story. I didn't want to give people an essay to read. I assumed you guys might only help me with a single question (whether a levelling screed was appropriate on a plywood-over-beams floor) rather than digging deeper and advising on party wall stuff (thanks...

BTW insurance paid for the £3K of repairs to my flat 4 years ago. They won't be paying for it this time, apparently.

YES. New stud walls were put in downstairs when they 'repositioned' their bathroom, and their surveyor asked that some strengthening beams be attached along-side existing beams in 2 or 3 places and one beam (which was unsupported at on end once the stud wall was removed) to be hung off another...

Hi, thanks for your replies. Answers to questions: 1) I was told neighbours were 'putting in new bathroom'. Actually involved putting in new French windows (needed building regs but they didn't apply. I complained, and council served contravention notice and neighbours allowed to apply...

Hi, My neighbours' surveyor has suggested that new damage to the stone floor in my first floor kitchen (which originally occurred when my neighbours' took down a wall that had become load-bearing in our Victorian flat conversion) is my fault. He's said that I didn't use flexible grout when...

Hi, Thank you sooooo much to all of you for taking the time to reply. Very kind of you. So it looks as if my neighbours' surveyor telling me that flexible grout would have stopped my floor cracking despite the beams (minus that load-bearing wall) now apparently flexing more than they used to...

Hi, Yes I am a girl :-) I did ask this surveyor to put his findings in writing, which he duly did. He genuinely seems to believe that my grouting isn't flexible, which means my floor is one big solid sheet on top of a floor that is now more flexible since that load-bearing wall came down...

Thanks for the quick reply, conny. Appreciated. Yes, the bags I saw were Weber 'Joint wide flex' and I checked with the supplier last week - as I still have the delivery note - and they apparently only sell flexible grout. The only option is that my builders bought and had flexible grout in the...

Hi, My downstairs neighbours took down a wall that had become loadbearing 5 years ago, splitting my first floor stone kitchen floor from side to side as the beams it was holding up re-settled. An insurance claim followed and repair work completed, with over-loaded beams hung off other beams...