Andrew Welham wrote:
Peter Crosland wrote:
Andrew Welham wrote:
8. Is there any other way to build right up against a boundary
without impacting the neighbours land?
9. Any concerns the building inspector would have when they see
this??
I will let others answer the rest of the questions but you will need
to consider the implications of the Party Wall Act since you want to
build so close to your neighbour assuming his house is also close to
the boundary. Details are here
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts1996/1996040.htm
The effect of the Act is to ensure that any work you do is done a in
satisfactory way and does not cause problems to your neighbour. You
have to pay all the costs associated with the Act.
Peter Crosland
First of all apologies for using the wrong terms, I have not been
involved in this type of work before.
Aplogies for being 'terse' but my nobbies[1] are crippling me
There are a number of reasons for my original (maybe flawed) thinking:
The drain pipe runs behind all the houses in my road collecting sewage
from each house as it goes. Therefore in order to redirect the pipe I
need to dig up my garage and the neighbours patios on each side. My
intention is to cause as little impact to my neighbours as possible &
and not remove the old garage until later in the built. For the above
reasons I don’t think the pipe can be re routed.
A few questions he
1) how do you know that the drain runs along this line?
2) how far from the house is it?
3) where is your existing garage
A statement was made that I will need to cover the entire pipes in
concrete, does this mean I will need to lower the man holes an cover
them as well ??? Basically meaning there will be no access to the
pipes from my land in the future?
If there are manholes there, they will need to stay there (in the middle of
your room(s), hence my advice to sling the lot and start from scratch,
unless you want someone to start removing carpets and rodding sewage out of
your house in years to come - manholes are there for one reason - to remove
blockages) - even if you go down this route, the actual pipes will still
require to be encased in concrete.
There are two reasons I am considering rafts.
1. To get maximum utilisation of space
It's not worth it.
2. More importantly, if I don’t use rafts the wall on the right hand
side (from the house) of room one will join the house at the frame of
the patio door, and I’m not sure how I would tie the wall to the
house? Would I be allowed to extend the wall which once held the
patio door to fill the gap. I would have thought this would have been
a point of weakness?
It doesn't matter where it joins onto the house, pillars will be built and
tied into existing brickwork.
I plan to do this work my self, and therefore would be interested to
understand why using rafts would cost an additional 20K????
You don't mention the meterage of the area you want to build on, but a raft
is a lot of work and a lot of muck has to come out, more importantly a lot
of concrete has to go back in, even doing it in one big raft would be
extremely costly but you want to do it in 3 stages, making it triply so.
The questions about the designation of a garage. The reason for this
question is that I believe if the building is designated as living
area then I need to build cavity walls, but for a garage I only need
a single layer wall. Also the roof designs are different warn vs.
cold.
For the amount you would save by not insulating the walls and roof, I
wouldn't bother, and a single skinned wall will get damp eventually for the
sake of a few hundred quids worth of blocks and fibreglass.
Ideally I would like to build a single layer wall (cold roof), but
without all the additional requirements for a garage such as fire
doors, 12 inch step to stop patrol fumes rising. As I won’t be
storing a car in the building.
That can be avoided by not having a garage door on the front, then it's just
a workshop
Lastly I didn’t win the lottery just learning about building.
Don't approach the building inspector for a chat with these ideas, firstly
he won't listen to you until your plans have been submitted, and secondly,
you need to get proper plans drawn up by a competent person, but doing it in
seperate stages will escalate the costs through the roof, you are basically
proposing to build 3 seperate extensions