Party wall agreements are blank cheques for your neighbours to spend your money.

[PEG]

Hi,bud,is this conversion requiring planning permission,or just regs?
Where i am,most standard loft conversions do not need full planning permission.
What is the lay-out of your property,each side,etc?

 

[The Ghost]

Terraced, party wall each side. No planning permitted development with no dormers no roof change just two steels going in each side. So just regs. @PEG

 

[The Ghost]

Anyhoo time for a steel bottom!

 

[Octopus]

Terraced, party wall each side. No planning permitted development with no dormers no roof change just two steels going in each side. So just regs. @PEG

what most people don't realise is that the party wall act includes detached properties.......

 

[dmxtothemax]

If your surveyors/engineers are qualified and above board, then there's no reason you cannot use them, If they insist on others then they can pay for them.

 

[Octopus]

^^ err , wrong. Your neighbors are allowed under the terms of the act to ensue you pay for their surveyor

 

[The Ghost]

includes detached properties.......

presumably you mean in the sense of the 3/6 metre rule and a dividing wall between two properties?

 

[FatAlan]

My loft conversion cost 23K and the neighbours were no problem - in fact it transpired that the chimney needed to be rebuilt as an additional cost, when I told the neighbour on that side I was going to have to do that as well he offered to pay half the cost of the chimney rebuild!
Nice bloke.
The neighbours on the other side did moan about the builders knocking their satellite dish out of alignment, which I fixed and they also mentioned that the builders oggled their 17 year old daughter in her underwear.

Any pics ...............of the chimney?

 

[Octopus]

presumably you mean in the sense of the 3/6 metre rule and a dividing wall between two properties?

Yes. The depth of foundations. Our extension needed piled foundations ...

 

[Wilko]

3/6 metre rule ?
Edit - just found it

 

[Octopus]

The act show should be called the party wall and boundary development act.

 

[Squid]

builders oggled their 17 year old daughter in her underwear.

You know the rules, photos or it never happened.........

 

[Rpa07]

I guess it’s better than ‘oggling their 17 year old daughter in THEIR underwear’ - that takes it to another level!

You know the rules, photos or it never happened.........

 

[Octopus]

presumably you mean in the sense of the 3/6 metre rule and a dividing wall between two properties?

v

Correction, just the 3 or 6 meter rule. You don't have to have a wall

 

[The Ghost]

I mean a wall in the garden front or back not just in the house.