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any advice would be greatly welcomed, bit of a long story so please bear with me. We have put a Dormer on the back of our house, all building regs and planning are good. We honestly had no idea about the Party Wall Act otherwise we would have sorted it.
The steel beams went into the party wall on the 26th September and nothing was said, when the frame went up all hell kicked off with neighbours on both sides. It wasn't until mid November we received a letter from a surveyor informing us about the party wall and asking to come into our house the following morning, this wasn't possible as we were not able to get time off work that quickly.
The following day we received a notice to stop building from their solicitor, we replied that we were on second fixings so not sure if this was possible.
Long story short, their surveyor wants to do a retrospective agreement, met with our surveyor, both decided to not involve another, both happy with the structural engineers calculations etc.
then their surveyor sends a letter and bill to ours and it has nothing in it that was discussed.
On Saturday night we decided to move the bathroom equipment we had on the living room to the attic to make space, on the third trip up I opened the window to get some air to find the neighbour in his garden recording us!!
We have the stairs in but it is all open so the heat is just escaping and we don't seem to be getting any further with any of it.
Any advice....
Thanks
Annka
any advice would be greatly welcomed, bit of a long story so please bear with me. We have put a Dormer on the back of our house, all building regs and planning are good. We honestly had no idea about the Party Wall Act otherwise we would have sorted it.
The steel beams went into the party wall on the 26th September and nothing was said, when the frame went up all hell kicked off with neighbours on both sides. It wasn't until mid November we received a letter from a surveyor informing us about the party wall and asking to come into our house the following morning, this wasn't possible as we were not able to get time off work that quickly.
The following day we received a notice to stop building from their solicitor, we replied that we were on second fixings so not sure if this was possible.
Long story short, their surveyor wants to do a retrospective agreement, met with our surveyor, both decided to not involve another, both happy with the structural engineers calculations etc.
then their surveyor sends a letter and bill to ours and it has nothing in it that was discussed.
On Saturday night we decided to move the bathroom equipment we had on the living room to the attic to make space, on the third trip up I opened the window to get some air to find the neighbour in his garden recording us!!
We have the stairs in but it is all open so the heat is just escaping and we don't seem to be getting any further with any of it.
Any advice....
Thanks
Annka