On 23/07/17 17:44, Bert Coules wrote:
"NY" wrote:

Exactly. Can you draw a diagram of how the window and your two houses
are arranged?

I might be able to put a photo online but I haven't yet sorted out a
replacement for Photobucket; I'll see.

How can either of you measure the exact position of the boundary line
/ party wall?

I think he's calculating the position of the boundary based on the
distance between the two closest adjacent rear windows in our back
walls. The window openings were 4.5 brick-widths apart, so the boundary
is presumably at the 2.25 brick-width position.

This is complicated now though because the rear wall of my bungalow has
been moved backwards into the garden by a metre and the new window
openings are quite different. But photos exist of the old wall in place.

Is the fence between you exactly on the boundary...

No. The fence, for some reason, is some 6-8 inches his side of the
boundary (if the 2.25 bricks calculation is correct).

Usually the fence is owned by one or the other and sits on the owners
land, so the outer face of the fence would be the boundary.



Until all this business started I never looked closely at the placing of
the fence and automatically assumed that it accurately marked the
boundary. I do wonder now if the builders made the same assumption and
took the fence as a datum line for locating the newly-moved wall and
therefore the dormer too. If so it doesn't necessarily mean that there
is an overlap but it would place both wall and dormer closer to the
boundary line than in the plans.






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