Margaret dailey

also can you explain this please " Then you need to apply the "45 degree rule" Project an imaginary line from the foundation depth down at 45 degrees and that is the soil you must not disturb without proper structural engineer input".

whe you say this "I would do a test dig adjacent to the house to find how deep the foundations" do you mean i stand by the bay window and just dig some soil out with my hand and see how far the house goes down, how much do i dig down?

thankyou for that advise. but can you simplyfy it for me a little more. im really sorry, im not the sharpest tool in the box, lol but your advise seems great but just a little hard to understand for me. can you please just explain in simpler terms what i need to do. also my neighbour is not going to do theres yet. so i dont know when they will want to put there wall in place

thankyou all for your advise and help... if i can answer some questions, a disabled parking spot is not an option outside so im not considering that at all. in respect of a surveyor i do not have the funds to be able to afford that. i have a neighbour who has very kindly offered his help to dig out the soil for me for a small amount. so the digging cost is not an issue. and as for a u shaped wall, my brother is going to build that for me with blocks as he done this before in his own house. so hopefully costs wont be too much. it was a little bit soil but now its mostly clay and a little bit sand. in respect of my neighbours, they have just moved in but have now said they want to do the same, they have a little space in front which u cant see in the picture where they park their small clio sideways and then a retaining wall painted green and covered in bushes which you can just about see in picture but not a lot of space for the car to park so they want to dig back also now, im just loking for advise in regards how much soil/land needs to be left. i can get all of it dug out, thats not an issue, its just we dont know how far back we can go without it being a risk so if someone can roughly just say how much in feet we should retain, and then put in the concrete wall right across, that would be helpful. i am of the opinion that we should leave at least 3 ft from bay wall, then put in block wall and then that should leave about 20 ft to the boundary

Hi all, My name in margaret and im 62 and live in walsall uk. I was directed to this site by a friend who is a member, in the hope i can get some advice. Basically, i live in a semi detached house which you can see from the picture i have attached, sits elevated from main road and has a front garden sloping down from the house to the main street. In urgent need of a disability parking space, we have decided to make a car drive in front of the house. So we have started the work, by removing the brick wall that was at the bottom running across garden, and a tall bush. Now we are slowly excavating the garden in order to make a space that is flat to park vehicles. I dont want the space to be sloping so were digging straight to be flat Anyhoo, what i wanted help with was i wanted to know how close i ca excavate to the front of the house wall. I was told i would have to leave at least 3ft of garden and then add a retaining concrete block wall going across and then in a gap between this wall and the garden behind it, pour in concrete. So yeah thats it, just wanted to know how much garden/land i need to retain from the house wall, how far back we can dig to make drive as long as possible.without it risking the foundations of the house, if that is the case. Im not hoping to go right back to actual house wall and dig all of the soil out, just as far back as possible to make drive as long as possbile. Measurements wise, the width is approx 18ft, and lenght from bottom of garden on the street to the house wall, its about 23ft. But that is obviously being measured standing on a slope, Thankyou all.