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any excavations within 3m are notifiable under the act, so they are treated the same as notifiable works to a PW, except for the notice served. by a dispute arising, you are also protected by the act, in that your surveyor would have agreed a 3rd surveyor, who you can approach if the fees are unreasonable.
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Ha, all good.
Totally understand the 3M rule, but thats not what I am talking about - you have to issue an excavation notice which we did, no hassles. Working within 3m will effect them, but not the party wall as we are not touching it (not going over it, which is what a party wall agreement is about as I understand it).
As the party wall is not being touched there need not be a party wall Survey, but she initiated a dispute and got her own surveyor because she "didn't trust" ours (they are a legit registered and regulated surveyor, not a lad I found down the pub). So me paying for 1 surveyor is expected and a non issue, I'd totally understand her wanting some record of the before and the after, sure, but she disputed our right to do the work and then went with additional surveyors, doubling the cost.
Also worth noting - we had conversations with her about this and we explained the costs we would have to pay which we would like to avoid so if she did have concerns could she please speak to us first. Next thing we hear she has instructed her own surveyor. Hence feeling aggrieved.
What engineers are you talking about? Structural ones? There have been structural engineers working on this (not the architects) and they are separate to the surveyors.
My architect (or one of them) actually works on site too - he was mopping my bathroom floor when I got home yesterday, hopefully I'm not paying an architects hourly rate for that.
God I'm waffling now.