Have got two quotes from a Builder with conflicting "advice" - hope somebody on here can help clear it up?
We have a terraced house and we want to extend out of the back - the internal width is 4.5m but I'm assuming that the dividing wall between the properties is circa 300mm (this is what we are being told would be the width of the brickwork on the extension)
One builder is saying that they can extend by the width of 5.1m to give us an internal width of the extension of 4.5m. However how does that stand presuming the side walls of the extension will be straddling the boundary line of the properties both sides (Party Wall Agreement and potential issues selling at a later date/neighbours reject it?)
The other Builder is saying that he'll extend from the line of the internal walls which gives us an internal width of 3.9m to keep things easier.
Obviously we want the most internal width without it being problematic - how far can we go to keep it simple? Hope that makes sense?
We have a terraced house and we want to extend out of the back - the internal width is 4.5m but I'm assuming that the dividing wall between the properties is circa 300mm (this is what we are being told would be the width of the brickwork on the extension)
One builder is saying that they can extend by the width of 5.1m to give us an internal width of the extension of 4.5m. However how does that stand presuming the side walls of the extension will be straddling the boundary line of the properties both sides (Party Wall Agreement and potential issues selling at a later date/neighbours reject it?)
The other Builder is saying that he'll extend from the line of the internal walls which gives us an internal width of 3.9m to keep things easier.
Obviously we want the most internal width without it being problematic - how far can we go to keep it simple? Hope that makes sense?