urgent advice required/width of extension

glasgowdan

Get another builder

rabialiones

its too late for that as work has begun

Mojisola

rabialiones wrote: »

its too late for that as work has begun

Stop it until this is sorted out!

traineepensioner

Could this be something to do with avoiding a party wall agreement? If you're building right up to your neighbours boundary then your foundations may be under your neighbours property. It's difficult to comment without a plan or photo.

teneighty

glasgowdan wrote: »

Get another builder

I agree, your builder does not know what he is talking about. You can build right up to the boundary (subject to certain simple procedures).

rabialiones

thanks for all the advice, foundations have been laid and he wont move them now , so cant do much about it
I must be more careful and wary , its just I was taken in by what he said and trusted him

Mojisola

rabialiones wrote: »

thanks for all the advice, foundations have been laid and he wont move them now , so cant do much about it

You are employing him - he doesn't set the rules!

vansboy

Probably best to have a chat with architect, builder and you, before anything else is done, or any more money spent on material, labour or hassles.

There may be a simple explanation, but if he's saying about wrong measurements at this stage, then so many other things may be cropping up later.

VB

rosie383

As regular posters on here will know, we had an issue where our builder built 10cm over the boundary onto next door's land.
Please, please make sure that you can see from the line of render/roof line, wherever that you are not going over the boundary.
If you can, go onto your neighbour's property and have a look and make sure.
From our side, we couldn't see any problem, but it was obvious from next door.
This held our build up for 4weeks while it was sorted out. Could have been much, much worse.

GwylimT

Why did you employ an architect if you're going to let the builder build what they fancy?

If you're not willing to ensure the extension you want is built, I'm afraid you have little room to complain. My biggest concern is what is being built isn't what planning permission granted.

You have employed a cowboy, so the options are allow said cowboy to build an extension you don't want and haven't received planning permission for, bring in architect to speak to said cowboy to hope said cowboy starts building correctly, or sack the builder and get one that isn't a moron.