On Nov 25, 6:08 pm, Ian & Hilda Dedic
wrote:
Hi all,
The house next door is being extended and as part of that work our
"semidetached" garage which we re-did about 5 years ago in breeze block
and tiles was undetached from their horrible falling down asbestos garage.

Next doors owners want to cut the pillars which support the breezeblock
walls back to flush with the outside of our garage (there are 4 pillars
about 6ft apart along the outside wall of our garage so the inside of
our garage has flush walls).

I believe that cutting these pillars will weaken the wall structure and
make the garage fall down. If we extend pillars on the inside of our
garage (Which wouldn't be as strong as the foundations weren't built to
accommodate this) we won't be able to get the car in the garage and be
able to open the doors to get out of the car.

Is there any other way of supporting a single breezeblock wall of 20
feet (5 mtrs) if these double thickness pillars are removed.? It's
London Clay soil if that makes any difference.

I need a quick answer on this as I need to persuade him he can't do this
in the morning.

Fortunately we neglected to sign any party wall agreement with him so we
haven't technically agreed to anything but the removal of his part of
the garage structure.

dedics

I would start mentioning phrases like "Party Wall act" "appoint a
surveyor each to look after each others interests" and "all fees paid
by you"....see if he still wants to boogie ;)

if he does follow the Party Wall Act and that should cover your a$se

Jim K