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Thanks for all the advice. I rang building control today and honestly they didn’t seem fussed. I gave them the address and they looked it up. They said that the person has not made a building control application and therefore they couldn’t do anything. I might call again to see if I get a...

I think, from when I was laying the new floor, my floorboards run left to right so joists are perpendicular

There are walls above in flats 4 and 5 that are in the same place as the wall that was removed in flat 2 - if that makes sense?

There are multiple walls within each flat (most of them are 2 or 3 bedrooms) but I didn’t have the dexterity on my iPhone to draw all the walls

65F01ADC-9434-4AA5-BD87-FC12E552B548 by Tok posted 21 Jun 2021 at 11:21 PM

Good point about council and safety. I’m worried about the electrics she’s done (live wires hanging free) and the fact she removed a fire door into the hall.

Sorry for my terrible sketch from the phone. I am flat 5 in the loft and she is flat 2 but I’ve been chatting it over with flat 4. The red line is the wall she removed.

Support wall

Thanks for the tip on the council. I know she didn’t run it by them because she took the wall down herself with her son and hasn’t had a builder involved.

Thanks for the reply. Her floor is ground so it’s concrete but I’m 2 floors above and I think it’s parallel with the wall.

Hi all, Hoping to get some advice please. I live in a block of flats that was originally an old Victorian building. It was converted into 5 flats decades ago. My downstairs neighbour has started to do some serious build works. I was in helping her carry something in and I noticed a number of...