I have a question about some work a neighbour is doing, and I'm hoping someone here will perhaps provide an answer. I'll give the whole story as it may make it easier to understand even though the first part isn't really related.
We live in a middle terrace house which when we moved in had no rear extension. Looking out the back, the house to the left had a single storey extension with sloped tile roof. The wall was built along their boundary line. The house to the right had a shorter conservatory style extension with a brick wall along their boundary line, and a glass roof.
A few years later we decided to have an extension. This matched the length of the extension of the house on the left. It was built with brick walls either side along our boundary line, and a sloped tile roof that joined onto the extension on the left so it looks like 1 long roof. Our extension wall on the right went about 1 metre further out than the shortly conservatory extension wall on our right. The wall on the right is about 1 foot taller than the roof of our extension, so along that wall at our tile level, we had lead flashing installed so that water running down the edge of the wall ran onto the tiles of our roof and not between their conservatory wall and our extension wall.
Now onto the part with the question.... The neighbour to the right has decided to have their conservatory extension knocked down and a proper brick extension built. A party wall agreement was signed. This work is currently in progress. For some strange reason, their extension comes up about 12" short of the end of ours (and almost every other extension that people have had built along our road), but it does extend past the end of the old brick wall that was built for their old conservatory, so the builders have extended this wall to the end of the extension, about 18”. Like the rest of the wall, it butts up to our wall and rises about 12" above our roof line. My question is, who is responsible to install the flashing on my side of their wall? The builders have obviously put flashing on their side of the wall so that water runs onto their tiles, but at the moment any water will run down our side of the wall, not onto our tiles but down between their wall and our wall, potentially cause damp on ours and their wall. Now it’s in both of our interest to get this done to prevent damp, but I think it strange that I would have to find and pay builders to do work as a direct result of work my neighbour is having done that detrimentally affects my property. I’ve not mentioned it to him yet, but will certainly do so. I’ve tried to find other people who have been in the same situation, there are some similar but not exactly the same, and I can’t find any regulations that clearly state what should happen. Any chance someone here is able to advise??
Thanks!
We live in a middle terrace house which when we moved in had no rear extension. Looking out the back, the house to the left had a single storey extension with sloped tile roof. The wall was built along their boundary line. The house to the right had a shorter conservatory style extension with a brick wall along their boundary line, and a glass roof.
A few years later we decided to have an extension. This matched the length of the extension of the house on the left. It was built with brick walls either side along our boundary line, and a sloped tile roof that joined onto the extension on the left so it looks like 1 long roof. Our extension wall on the right went about 1 metre further out than the shortly conservatory extension wall on our right. The wall on the right is about 1 foot taller than the roof of our extension, so along that wall at our tile level, we had lead flashing installed so that water running down the edge of the wall ran onto the tiles of our roof and not between their conservatory wall and our extension wall.
Now onto the part with the question.... The neighbour to the right has decided to have their conservatory extension knocked down and a proper brick extension built. A party wall agreement was signed. This work is currently in progress. For some strange reason, their extension comes up about 12" short of the end of ours (and almost every other extension that people have had built along our road), but it does extend past the end of the old brick wall that was built for their old conservatory, so the builders have extended this wall to the end of the extension, about 18”. Like the rest of the wall, it butts up to our wall and rises about 12" above our roof line. My question is, who is responsible to install the flashing on my side of their wall? The builders have obviously put flashing on their side of the wall so that water runs onto their tiles, but at the moment any water will run down our side of the wall, not onto our tiles but down between their wall and our wall, potentially cause damp on ours and their wall. Now it’s in both of our interest to get this done to prevent damp, but I think it strange that I would have to find and pay builders to do work as a direct result of work my neighbour is having done that detrimentally affects my property. I’ve not mentioned it to him yet, but will certainly do so. I’ve tried to find other people who have been in the same situation, there are some similar but not exactly the same, and I can’t find any regulations that clearly state what should happen. Any chance someone here is able to advise??
Thanks!
