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If there was a party wall award involved - and it sounds like there should have been - that would have covered who pays what to whom and by when.
Howard-
Yep - party wall award.
Fees were approx 1900 for the fees for the award and to liaise with the neighbour's appointed surveyor. Then the other surveyor's fees on top.
It's the 2500 that seems very high for what it was (~600 higher than the combined price for own/other neighbour), and also that there was no indication it'd be that high until just now - 2.5 months later.
Sounds like the price is high because the neighbours didn't trust the award and wanted a second visit from the surveyors. They were actually requesting that a surveyor would be onsite to witness the builders building to the line.
'fussy' doesn't begin to cover it
duncs
One for @Sheppz potentially, or @Brommers? (sorry to @)
My partner's doing an extension at the moment.
She appointed a party wall surveyor. Both neighbours were initially happy to use them, but later then one decided they weren't happy with where the boundary was, so used their own.
As it transpired, they were wrong (they'd previously put a fence fully inside my partner's garden).
All carried on, extension mostly built now.
Partner's just got a bill through for ~2.5k which she wasn't expecting. (This in addition to the 1.2 she paid for her own/other neighbour combined)
The extension was pretty straightforward. 3m build into the garden. Nothing touching any neighbours walls or anything structural, but obviously some making good on their garden plants/garden wall.
Given the bill has popped up so late she's not best pleased at either the timing or the price. Anything that can be done? Request a breakdown of the hours spent on it? Anything else...
(Both surveyors have ‘off the record’ mentioned that the neighbours were particularly awkward given how trivial the work was and that they were in the wrong)