On Thu, 03 May 2007 19:09:48 +0100 Dave Plowman (News) wrote :
Of course houses vary in construction but with mine the party wall is 9"
brick so you simply remove one bricks worth of thickness and cast in a
padstone.

There was the sad case of the house in Tooting where I designed a loft
conversion only to find out too late (i.e. when the builder cut the
pockets for the beams) that it had a 4 1/2" party wall. "We always thought
that the neighbours were rather noisy" said the sad householder.

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Tony Bryer SDA UK 'Software to build on' http://www.sda.co.uk