Welcome to Peter Barry’s blog posts. You’ll find a range of topics focussing on issues that are important to our clients where we try to answer the questions that we regularly get asked.
This post was inspired by a question posed recently by a homeowner who was concerned about the neighbour’s new basement excavation and whether or not it would undermine her property. She wanted to know what precautions could be taken to ensure that the neighbour would dig under the party wall only and stop as soon as they had enough room to construct the new basement wall and underpin the ...
This post was inspired by a question posed recently by a homeowner who was concerned about the neighbour’s new basement ...
As a recent graduate and Assistant Surveyor, a large part of my training was party wall related. As part of that training I ...
Every now and then there is a catastrophic incident involving the construction industry somewhere in the UK. When a house ...
If you’ve read the previous posts in this series you’ll know that the renovation was split in to 2 phases; effectively ...
Our 2 children went back to school this week and that was originally the target for phase 1 of the refurbishment to be ...
We’re now 6 weeks in to phase 1 of the work and I’d estimate that we’ve fallen a couple of weeks behind the ...
We’re now a little over halfway through phase 1 of our barn refurbishment. The structure of the barn is long and narrow so it divides quite neatly in to 2 parts with a sound and dust proof screen in the middle. Phase 1, the smaller half of the barn, is programmed to take 9 weeks following which we swap halves with the builders and work continues for a further 14 weeks. Doing the work in 2 ...
We’re now a little over halfway through phase 1 of our barn refurbishment. The structure of the barn is long and narrow so ...
As you can see from the picture below, work is now well underway on the refurbishment of our barn. The lower part of that ...
Having talked about it for many years my family and I ‘escaped to the country’ in October last year; specifically to a ...
We’ve written quite a few posts over the last few months on how the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act ...