HI,
I need some advice. My property is built up against a three storey property (side elevation). My property party wall to the three storey is saturated. The render to the adjoining property is in poor order, above my extension, where my wall is saturated. I deem rain has been entering the large cracks in the render to the adjoining property and saturating the party wall. Finally the owners of the adjoining property have renewed their render after over a year of arguments. I am trying to claim third party damage but the owners of the third party property are blaming my roofer, saying that when they removed the render, the lead abutment to my extension, lead under the render and bellmouth was not chased into their side elevation therefore because the lead was not chased in under the render the rain has been entering via the lead. Is this likley to be true if indeed the lead was never chased into to the side elevation. They state the lead was nailed to the bricks and then the render applied over the top of the lead. But surely their side elevation would be saturated during prolonged rain, which we had on many occasions over the past year, and the saturation of the bricks above has leached down to what is in effect a party wall, my walls are saturated from floor to ceiling height? can anyone advise if i am on a no win situation here?
I need some advice. My property is built up against a three storey property (side elevation). My property party wall to the three storey is saturated. The render to the adjoining property is in poor order, above my extension, where my wall is saturated. I deem rain has been entering the large cracks in the render to the adjoining property and saturating the party wall. Finally the owners of the adjoining property have renewed their render after over a year of arguments. I am trying to claim third party damage but the owners of the third party property are blaming my roofer, saying that when they removed the render, the lead abutment to my extension, lead under the render and bellmouth was not chased into their side elevation therefore because the lead was not chased in under the render the rain has been entering via the lead. Is this likley to be true if indeed the lead was never chased into to the side elevation. They state the lead was nailed to the bricks and then the render applied over the top of the lead. But surely their side elevation would be saturated during prolonged rain, which we had on many occasions over the past year, and the saturation of the bricks above has leached down to what is in effect a party wall, my walls are saturated from floor to ceiling height? can anyone advise if i am on a no win situation here?