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Q My semi detached neighbour has submitted a planning application for a rear single storey extension. I have not been notified of this officially but have been contacted by a company offering to represent me at no cost in the matter of party walls. I do not understand what this involves and would be grateful for advice as to what this entails and if I need to do anything myself.
If your neighbour proposed extension will be built on the line of the boundary between your properties, or if it will involve excavations lower than the level of your home foundations, then they will indeed be obliged to serve a Party Wall Notice on you. In that event you will have three options: you can either assent to the works; or dissent and Adidas Superstar Unisex White Navy Blue Dublin agree to the appointment of their surveyor to represent you both; or Buy Adidas Nmd XR1 BY0350 Footlocker Unisex Black White Online dissent and appoint your own surveyor. All costs will normally be borne by the building owner proposing the work.
The company which has contacted you will be hoping to persuade you to dissent and appoint them as your surveyors, so that they will get their fees paid by your neighbours. But if the work is straightforward, and if you have a good relationship with your neighbours, then the most sensible option is for you to dissent but to use their surveyor as the one Surveyor , thus minimising their costs. The fact that you under the terms of the Party Wall Act does not mean that you object to their planning application it is a legal device that means a Party Wall Award must be drawn up, which will protect your interests, and those of your in title that is, the people who own your home in the future.
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Q My elderly mother is looking to install a downstairs loo in her Thirties semi. The simplest place (without an extension) is a conversion of her pantry. Practically, this would work but we are receiving mixed messages about its separation from the kitchen since this, by definition, opens straight into it. I have looked at the Building Regulations 2010 edition but I can only find a phrase that these rooms be separated without further clarification. Different builders say either that two doors or only one door is required for this, though the majority say the regs changed a few years ago so that only one door is now needed. one that folds, would suffice? Please can you provide a definitive answer?
GH, Oxford
PV, Douglas, Isle of Man
AIf properly designed, with large air gaps at high and Adidas Nmd XR1 OFF Rose Unisex Black White Dublin low level, a radiator cover should not interfere with the heat transfer from the radiator to the room, as there will be a flue effect of Nike Air Zoom Vomero 11 818100-405 Women Grey Purple Ireland Online being drawn through it. But a poorly designed or DIY radiator cover, relying only on the perforations in a sheet of decorative MDF or hardboard, might not work so well.
Q My semi detached neighbour has submitted a planning application for a rear single storey extension. I have not been notified of this officially but have been contacted by a company offering to represent me at no cost in the matter of party walls. I do not understand what this involves and would be grateful for advice as to what this entails and if I need to do anything myself.If your neighbour proposed extension will be built on the line of the boundary between your properties, or if it will involve excavations lower than the level of your home foundations, then they will indeed be obliged to serve a Party Wall Notice on you. In that event you will have three options: you can either assent to the works; or dissent and Adidas Superstar Unisex White Navy Blue Dublin agree to the appointment of their surveyor to represent you both; or Buy Adidas Nmd XR1 BY0350 Footlocker Unisex Black White Online dissent and appoint your own surveyor. All costs will normally be borne by the building owner proposing the work.
The company which has contacted you will be hoping to persuade you to dissent and appoint them as your surveyors, so that they will get their fees paid by your neighbours. But if the work is straightforward, and if you have a good relationship with your neighbours, then the most sensible option is for you to dissent but to use their surveyor as the one Surveyor , thus minimising their costs. The fact that you under the terms of the Party Wall Act does not mean that you object to their planning application it is a legal device that means a Party Wall Award must be drawn up, which will protect your interests, and those of your in title that is, the people who own your home in the future.
ROOM FOR AN EXTRA LOO
Q My elderly mother is looking to install a downstairs loo in her Thirties semi. The simplest place (without an extension) is a conversion of her pantry. Practically, this would work but we are receiving mixed messages about its separation from the kitchen since this, by definition, opens straight into it. I have looked at the Building Regulations 2010 edition but I can only find a phrase that these rooms be separated without further clarification. Different builders say either that two doors or only one door is required for this, though the majority say the regs changed a few years ago so that only one door is now needed. one that folds, would suffice? Please can you provide a definitive answer?
GH, Oxford
PV, Douglas, Isle of Man
AIf properly designed, with large air gaps at high and Adidas Nmd XR1 OFF Rose Unisex Black White Dublin low level, a radiator cover should not interfere with the heat transfer from the radiator to the room, as there will be a flue effect of Nike Air Zoom Vomero 11 818100-405 Women Grey Purple Ireland Online being drawn through it. But a poorly designed or DIY radiator cover, relying only on the perforations in a sheet of decorative MDF or hardboard, might not work so well.
