Recent content by dexterdo

Thank you to everyone who has contributed.

BCO still wants struc engineers report to approve trench foundations when trees removed. He would like soil analysis done

thanks

*Sorry, forgot to say we have a 40 foot silver birch at 13m away too-does that have any effect-it wont be removed *

So if we take the trees out we can go down 1.45m-50mm=1.4m and bobs your uncle everything will be ok , no need for piling? Is that what you`re saying? No need for soil testing, just pay for tree removal? If so,thats brilliant news-and such a relief!!!. Do I need to have put in a building regs...

We wish to build an extension but we have 2 cypress trees 5-8m from the closest part of the extension on weald clay. We will need 2.5m foundations or piling if the trees stay but our neighbour has offered to remove them to help out. The building control officer has seen the trees and knows they...

We wish to build an extension but we have 2 cypress trees 5-8m from the closest part of the extension on weald clay. We will need 2.5m foundations or piling if the tress stay but our neighbour has offered to remove them to help out. The building contril officer has seen the trees and knows they...

Unfortunately there is another leylandi lopped to 20 feet at about 8m from the proposed extension!! The piling engineer misread our plans and now quotes around £10k, including beams etc, and so we are now looking at forgetting our extension until we can more easily afford it. If we patch our...

By the way, if we could get our neighbour to agree to removing the closest tree, we still have a 10m long row of leyandii and a silver birch at 13m away from the nearest point of the extension, all the way along our back fence(they belong to another neighbour who definately wont remove them as...

Sorry for late reply-we are 10 miles south of guildford

Its my neighbours tree and has been lopped to about 7m but wont be removed. Extension is to be 7m x 4.5m at its widest.

...and how do I know if its got high volume change potential plz ?(-think its "gault" clay)

So it would be cheaper and easier to use piled foundations?

We are on heavy clay and we have a leylandii at 5m away from a proposed single story extension-can anyone tell me how deep we have to dig the foundations according to the NHBC tables please?