Landlord Help: Garden Wall Falling Down

ManuelG

quailpower wrote: »

Yes he said the wall was fine and solid

That is good news, I suppose.

slopemaster

quailpower wrote: »

Yes he said the wall was fine and solid, but I dont really feel happy about it.

A suggestion.

Wait until an evening when your neighbours are out. Assemble 4 or 5 large adults; keep your kids safely out of the way.

Push, in unison, on your side of the wall 4 or 5 times.

Either:-
a) Nothing happens. This proves it is safe and you can relax.
or
b) It falls over. Danger is removed. Contact LL / agent next morning to say it fell down in the night.

thesaint

slopemaster wrote: »

A suggestion.

Wait until an evening when your neighbours are out. Assemble 4 or 5 large adults; keep your kids safely out of the way.

Push, in unison, on your side of the wall 4 or 5 times.

Either:-
a) Nothing happens. This proves it is safe and you can relax.
or
b) It falls over. Danger is removed. Contact LL / agent next morning to say it fell down in the night.

(c) It falls over killing 4 or 5 large adults.

slopemaster

thesaint wrote: »

(c) It falls over killing 4 or 5 large adults.

But it falls in the direction you're pushing.

I have done this and it surprisingly easy with an unstable wall - tho' it's true I probably shouldn't be recommending it.

jbainbridge

thesaint wrote: »

(c) It falls over killing 4 or 5 large adults.

From the pictures I'm looking at this might happen as the wall looks weak on the OP's side. Pushing it could unsettle it and the lack of support might have it topple on top of you!

The solution is to wait until the neighbour is out and push it from their side!!

thesaint

slopemaster wrote: »

But it falls in the direction you're pushing.

Not necessarily.
If the foundations are gone on the OP's side, but not the neighbours, then pushing the wall may destabilise it, and instead of going over, it falls back.

Or, the bottom half is pushed over, but the top half folds over onto those pushing.

I personally know someone who was demolishing an outside toilet 2 years ago with his son.

They were both killed when the roof fell in.

quailpower

Old_Git wrote: »

1 is the wall actually the landlords or next doors .
2 most insurance will not pay for garden walls ,and it wont be cheap to replace .

It is the landlords, we know because the neighbour on the other side showed us his deeds, and the opposite wall is his.

quailpower

jbainbridge wrote: »

From the pictures I'm looking at this might happen as the wall looks weak on the OP's side. Pushing it could unsettle it and the lack of support might have it topple on top of you!

The solution is to wait until the neighbour is out and push it from their side!!

I think it would fall on our side no matter how you push! The missing foundations are like the wedge you cut out of a tree when felling.

Unfortunately we have 8 foot walls all round, so does the neighbour so no way to get into his garden (easily) and it is overlooked. Otherwise I would have had the lads at it with sledgehammers.

sebadee

Quite sickening that a LL would refuse to repair that wall, with a small child being in the property (its bad enough for even adults).

Also just as bad that they can do a revenge evictions.

Tenancy rights and landlord regulations need a complete overhaul in this country.

G_M

quailpower wrote: »

Does the landlord really have the right to evict me if I report the wall to building control?

If you have a fixed term tenancy: no, not till the fixed term ends.

If you have a periodic tenancy ('monthly' or 'rolling') the landlord does not need a reason. He can serve a S21 Notice (2 months) at any time, for any (or no) reason.

* Ending/renewing an AST: what happens when a fixed term ends? How can a LL or tenant end a tenancy? What is a periodic tenancy?