Party Wall Casebook

Ground Floor Extension - Repairing Damage to a Party Wall Party Wall Connects Extension with House 'Damage' can take a number of forms and the following is just one slightly non-obvious example which involve a ground floor rear extension. The adjoining owner had already built a rear extension partly utilizing an existing party wall. which had previously served as an enclosing wall of a rear garden lavatory. When the lavatory was removed all the walls were removed except the party section. The adjoining owner (as per the picture) had built his extension flank wall enclosing on this party wall and connected a new wall to it which formed the remainder of the flank wall. When you look closely at the party wall you see a vertical line of yellow insulation showing in gaps along the rough brickwork. These gaps in the brickwork no doubt occurred when the rear lavatory walls were removed on both sides.  . The building owner was intending to build his new extension in exact...

Most surveyors dread them, those long ago closed-down projects that rise up during the busy work week with a vengeance. Usually, it is in the form of an email from an adjoining owner indignantly claiming damages caused as a result of works to the party wall. Chimney breast supported on gallows brackets Generally speaking, the smaller the amount of alleged reported damage the more potentially troublesome this can be for the surveyor whose job it is to trawl through his schedule of conditions and pictures in the valiant hope that he has sufficient records on which to entertain or reject the claim. With larger claims for damages it is much more likely the surveyor has sufficient records to show that the badly cracked wall reported was either already noted at the time the schedule was undertaken or was not and is therefore a new development resulting from the works potentially.  But where the surveyor neglects to bring along a ladder to the schedule of condition in ...