not to contribute to this?

[gremlindolphin]

I am the landlord of what was my family home. I have a good, communicative relationship with the neighbours on one side. They have got planning permission (which we supported) for an extension which includes removing a garage which backs onto our garage. Our only stipulation was that once they had removed their garage, they had to make good our garage wall. I have been positively reasonable on a number of other issues.

Work has now started, their garage has been removed and surprise surprise the adjoining walls are more complicated than might have been so our garage is now open to the elements under the roof on one side and they are expecting to pay to rectify this situation which has only arisen because of work they wanted to do and agreed to make good once they had done!

Surely their builder/surveyor should have either worked out how the garages were constructed or identified that it wasn't possible to tell until they did it so they should make contingency for it?

I have just started reading about party walls as well which looks quite complicated and possibly relevant!

Anyone?

No idea of the law here, but common sense says YANBU

HI Gremlin - you might be better off posting under Property/DIY as there are a lot of knowledgeable people there.

FWIW in my expereince the surveyors are known for not doing their jobs properly when inlvolved in this type of project. I'd ask the builders straight away to make good the damage and not wait for the Party Wall Award to be signed off

Thanks busyoldfool, I didn't see Property/DIY but I will put this in there. x

Also, don't they need party wall insurance before they embark on a project which might damage someone else's property? That's what we were told before NDN rebuilt the palace of Versailles started their extension.