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wait, but, if their costs are in the award, and they are asking for more, they can do one?
There's probably someone who knows more than I do, but it seems like the process here got fucked up and your neighbour acted unilaterally and are now expecting you to pay? or the award didn't detail the fees that would be paid to the other surveyor? That's not right, the award should detail / cover the costs.
Howard-
wait, but, if their costs are in the award, and they are asking for more, they can do one?
I think this is where our thinking is going atm.
We paid for the award. They then wanted more reassuring that our builders would actually follow the award (they're a reputable main contractor so there's no reason to assume they wouldn't).
Along with the link @Kurai posted then I'm hoping we can break down the costs as
1) costs to get to the party wall award
2) costs due to neighbour being awkwardand part 2 gets redirected to the neighbours.
I'm gonna read through the award fully (only scanned it before as it's not my house/extension/neighbours/money). May well be that they're just an expensive surveyor.
Ta both
duncs
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