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Thanks very much all your help. Looks like this is going to be the course of action. Fingers crossed. Thanks again

Thanks very much for your reply. As you can imagine, I am having many sleepless nights over this. The LA will not talk to me as the file is with their insurers. Their insurers will not discuss it as I am not their client. As both the BCO and the structual engineer agree the garage could be...

It's all been a bit of a disaster. We did not actually employ the builder until after we had been given the advice by the BCO. The builder followed the instructions given by the BCO. The builder was 65 just after he finished the garage and retired. Although he insisted he was insured before we...

The original drawings were mini-piling as the garage was just under a metre away from the boundary and the hawthorn. The builders who came to give me quotes all said that mini-piling was excessive for the job so I asked the BCO to come and have a look, soley to see if they agreed with the...

If a BCO gives advise on the depth of foundations and I follow their advise, is the BCO then responsible if the concrete cracks resulting in them refusing to give a completion certificate because there is a crack above and below the side door of a detached 42m2 garage. This was as a result of a...

Thanks very much. I had looked on a few websites but didn't see that one. Makes sense to talk to the people that know.

I am building a detached garage which has to have deep footings and block and beam floor due to a neighbours tree. I am ok with digging the footings and filling them with concrete but don't have a clue where the block and beam sits. Does the conctrete come to the top of the footings and...

Thanks very much for your replies.

Thanks Superslasher

Planning permission has been granted for my 42m2 detached garage and I want to do the project myself. The footings are 2.4m x .500m and the ground is heavy clay. Can anyone advise me of what size digger I will need as I know a mini digger is too small. Also, can you think of pitfalls I...

Thanks everyone for your thoughts and advice.

Hawthorn is about a metre away from the boundary and a metre and a half from the garage. The chap who drew the plans actually does the inspections for the LA so he obviously knows his stuff. Just thought I would have got the garage for about £20,000 but perhaps I under estimated how much things...

Hi. I have just received approval for a detached double garage of 42m2 and the plans were for mini piled footings due to a neighbours hawthorn tree and the fact we are on heavy clay. Quotes for the piling seem expensive and would prefer concrete footings but the building regs say that the...