A house a couple of doors down changed hands recently and the new owners
are having a cellar conversion done before they move in. Still lots of
money around, apparently. ;-)

It's being done by the London Basement Company who are a pretty large
firm judging by their own trucks delivering building materials etc.

They've rigged up a conveyor belt to take the large quantity of sub-soil
etc removed from the cellar, and this goes up and over the pavement and
drops that material straight into a skip. And you can just image the dust
this causes...

They have got a token tarpaulin partially round the skip - but this is
more to stop large lumps falling out, I'd guess.

Is there a way of them reducing this dust - or is it just something we
have to put up with for the next few months? I don't remember it being
anything like this bad last time such work was done in the street.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

A house a couple of doors down changed hands recently and the new owners
are having a cellar conversion done before they move in. Still lots of
money around, apparently. ;-)

It's being done by the London Basement Company who are a pretty large
firm judging by their own trucks delivering building materials etc.

They've rigged up a conveyor belt to take the large quantity of sub-soil
etc removed from the cellar, and this goes up and over the pavement and
drops that material straight into a skip. And you can just image the dust
this causes...

They have got a token tarpaulin partially round the skip - but this is
more to stop large lumps falling out, I'd guess.

Is there a way of them reducing this dust - or is it just something we
have to put up with for the next few months? I don't remember it being
anything like this bad last time such work was done in the street.

I looked at their website a while ago, the conversions look very
sucessful, but only worthwhile in higher price areas.

A water spray onto the soil as its put on the conveyor would surely
help. If its being done under the party wall act then they will be
required to be quite thorough about minimising nuisance - but if its
not a PWA job I dont know whether there's anything you can do if
they don't wish to. If they won't oblige, a polite complaint to the
new
neighbours might help, as they likely won't want to **** you off on
day 1. But I expect you know all this, and I dont know what youve
already done.


NT

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A water spray onto the soil as its put on the conveyor would surely
help. If its being done under the party wall act then they will be
required to be quite thorough about minimising nuisance - but if its
not a PWA job I dont know whether there's anything you can do if
they don't wish to. If they won't oblige, a polite complaint to the
new
neighbours might help, as they likely won't want to **** you off on
day 1. But I expect you know all this, and I dont know what youve
already done.


NT

Bugger all to do with the neighbours,after all they are not the construction
workers.

I see a complaint to firms diretor is in order in a reqeust for his house
being cleaned up after the jobs complete.

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Is there a way of them reducing this dust - or is it just something we
have to put up with for the next few months? I don't remember it being
anything like this bad last time such work was done in the street.

I looked at their website a while ago, the conversions look very
sucessful, but only worthwhile in higher price areas.

They certainly look very professional and they've done others in the area
which I've not heard any complaints about on the grapevine.

I dunno the economics of these conversions - the houses in this street
already have working attic rooms so it's about the only way to expand the
area dramatically given the small gardens. I suppose it must be cheaper
than moving to a larger house. Certainly many have done it.

A water spray onto the soil as its put on the conveyor would surely
help. If its being done under the party wall act then they will be
required to be quite thorough about minimising nuisance - but if its
not a PWA job I dont know whether there's anything you can do if
they don't wish to. If they won't oblige, a polite complaint to the
new
neighbours might help, as they likely won't want to **** you off on
day 1. But I expect you know all this, and I dont know what youve
already done.

It will I assume involve the party wall act since it's a semi. I have had
(polite) words with one of the workers, and they do sweep up regularly but
without wetting down first. Not seen the new neighbours - they've not
moved in yet.

Perhaps I'm being too fussy - but I washed the filthy car yesterday
evening and it was filthy again this morning.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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A house a couple of doors down changed hands recently and the new owners
are having a cellar conversion done before they move in. Still lots of
money around, apparently. ;-)



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