Mums neighbours have been having an extension built over the garage for the last few months, and a couple of weeks ago the lady who lives there called my mums partner in to have a look at the work being done as she has some concerns.
He took a look and advised her to get a structural engineer out pronto because he didn't thing what they had done was safe or right.
They have put steels in but haven't put in proper footings, they have put a layer of bricks onto the existing (thin) concrete floor and put the steel on that. Some of the steels are hanging off the edge of the bricks.
The floor hangers for the first floor have been nailed through the pebbledashing and he didn't think there were enough fixings of sufficient strength to support the floor.
The sloping roof at the back has been built at the wrong pitch so joins the back of the house above the bottom of the window so it won't open (fire issues?).
The guys are still working on site today so it doesn't seem as though the owners have done anything, and despite the fact that he thinks the work is dangerous my mums partner won't report them because it is 'none of his business'.
The extension is right on the boundary line of my mums property and my concern is that if this thing collapses then it will fall into her house and damage it. Should I get involved and call the council, will they do anything?
He took a look and advised her to get a structural engineer out pronto because he didn't thing what they had done was safe or right.
They have put steels in but haven't put in proper footings, they have put a layer of bricks onto the existing (thin) concrete floor and put the steel on that. Some of the steels are hanging off the edge of the bricks.
The floor hangers for the first floor have been nailed through the pebbledashing and he didn't think there were enough fixings of sufficient strength to support the floor.
The sloping roof at the back has been built at the wrong pitch so joins the back of the house above the bottom of the window so it won't open (fire issues?).
The guys are still working on site today so it doesn't seem as though the owners have done anything, and despite the fact that he thinks the work is dangerous my mums partner won't report them because it is 'none of his business'.
The extension is right on the boundary line of my mums property and my concern is that if this thing collapses then it will fall into her house and damage it. Should I get involved and call the council, will they do anything?
