Our current kitchen is the standard Victorian extended kitchen (with the bathroom moved upstairs), but the previous owners also put up a 'superior' lean-to on the side, built to a fairly good standard but still has a plastic roof.
Our plan is to open up the whole space to have an open plan kitchen with a standard pitched side return.
Our neighbours are absolutely lovely and have said they are totally happy for us to do the work, however they are not the owners - it's a housing association house.
I was expecting to get a party wall agreement and hopefully next door would would agree to using the same surveyor. However with a HA house it isn't their decision.
Does anyone has any knowledge of how this will go down? I did wonder if we can find the surveyor used by the HA and use him for our survey too - we won't get to choose who it is but that would save a lot of money.
I had a similar situation but with a council property. They used one of their own guys, I employed my own. No option to share. It all went smoothly enough once I'd pinned down who I should be dealing with. Slightly more expensive but not hugely in the overall scheme of things.
Our current kitchen is the standard Victorian extended kitchen (with the bathroom moved upstairs), but the previous owners also put up a 'superior' lean-to on the side, built to a fairly good standard but still has a plastic roof.
Our plan is to open up the whole space to have an open plan kitchen with a standard pitched side return.
Our neighbours are absolutely lovely and have said they are totally happy for us to do the work, however they are not the owners - it's a housing association house.
I was expecting to get a party wall agreement and hopefully next door would would agree to using the same surveyor. However with a HA house it isn't their decision.
Does anyone has any knowledge of how this will go down? I did wonder if we can find the surveyor used by the HA and use him for our survey too - we won't get to choose who it is but that would save a lot of money.