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But because neighbour A has found a way of getting it done quickly and cheaply, but only his bit of it,
How exactly? And any reason you can't jump on it too?
If a trade is already on site, it seems unlikely they will turn down low effort money.
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How exactly? And any reason you can't jump on it too?
His 'buddy's brother in law' is doing it - they are a bricky apparently. And no, they don't want to do ours too presumably because they are creaming it off contracts elsewhere and squishing this in inbetween.
I know it's 'just' a garden wall, but I'd rather have someone local do it tbh.
Howard
Our neighbours and I share a really shitty old garden wall at the front out our houses.
Neighbour A wants to re-do his garden, and part of this is taking down his entire old wall and his half of the portion we share and replacing it with red brick (which is silly, as the design intention of the wall was to use sandstone as per 80% of the house, with red brick reserved for the front of the house but, details, that become important later on).
As the wall is Party, it's, ugh, a party wall. Now, last year, we agreed we'd all get this done together as the existing wall is old and shitty and in one of us doing it alone the others will be weakened.
But because neighbour A has found a way of getting it done quickly and cheaply, but only his bit of it, I now have a job to do to make sure he's not going to make our lives difficult in the not too distant future.
He hasn't served me a Party Wall notice or given me specific detail about how in doing this work, he won't inflict cost on me down the line (i.e. two weeks after the work our portion of the wall collapses). He wants us to a) agree and b) decide with him where the existing wall should be cleaved in two with a stone cutter.
Personally I don't think the existing will survive being cut in two with a stone cutter.
I'm not sure what I'm asking here, except, i) should I feel as pissed off as I do when I think about it and ii) what do I do now? I don't want to make their lives difficult but I don't want to feel like I've been mugged off when our wall collapses three months down the line thanks to their shitty work.
I want to suggest to them, that to make this easy, they should take all of the joined wall down and rebuild it, their side and ours, at their cost. But of course they are doing it in red brick, which I think is dumb. Material, disposal and labour cost for this wouldn't be too wild though.