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In 2016 I had Colleys surveyor inspect a semi detached house that was for sale in Northern Ireland. Not knowing the area very well I met the surveyor at the house after the survey so I could talk about the report.
He suggested that asbestos in the ceilings and drainpipes could be an issue but generally the house was OK.
A year later I was looking to build a ground floor extension to the rear of he house, the builder had his surveyor come and check the house. The report was not quite what I expected.
The adjoining house has an extension already built But the footings and 2.5 cm of the outside wall of next doors extension is inside my boundary. It was only when he showed the measurements between my and next doors bedroom windows and then stand 10m down the garden boundary that this is obvious the extension is a few inches over the line. But this surveyor noticed it almost immediately and I hadn't contracted him. Needless to say I couldn't build my extension using the wall incase next door were to remove their extension. So we stopped work.
I checked with Building Control (BC) and local Planning, the work was signed off (2009) but was not measured compared with the drawings and BC don't check boundary lines??
If I had know next door extension was wrong I would never have purchased the house. I am now having trouble with the legal boundary line, my neighbour is disputing the position of the actual boundary.
Where do I go with this ONE???
He suggested that asbestos in the ceilings and drainpipes could be an issue but generally the house was OK.
A year later I was looking to build a ground floor extension to the rear of he house, the builder had his surveyor come and check the house. The report was not quite what I expected.
The adjoining house has an extension already built But the footings and 2.5 cm of the outside wall of next doors extension is inside my boundary. It was only when he showed the measurements between my and next doors bedroom windows and then stand 10m down the garden boundary that this is obvious the extension is a few inches over the line. But this surveyor noticed it almost immediately and I hadn't contracted him. Needless to say I couldn't build my extension using the wall incase next door were to remove their extension. So we stopped work.
I checked with Building Control (BC) and local Planning, the work was signed off (2009) but was not measured compared with the drawings and BC don't check boundary lines??
If I had know next door extension was wrong I would never have purchased the house. I am now having trouble with the legal boundary line, my neighbour is disputing the position of the actual boundary.
Where do I go with this ONE???
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