How to protect cladding

[saveasteading]

@Spinny I don't think @Mr Punteris being rude.

It could be read as ' what is your particular concern if they do this?'

 

Please don't suggest that bco gives dispensations for mates. Rules are rules.

[Kelvin]

All sounds contentious so it’s going to be a hard few months. Without a physical barrier there is likely going to be damage. Heras fencing will just get moved and will likely be banged against your house. I can almost guarantee that they will use your wall to lean stuff against. Site boarding fence as close to your wall as you can get. That should still give them space to work and protect the wall. 

[Redbeard]

1 hour ago, Spinny said:

no building notice,

 

All the other bits seem feasible provided that they make their peace as required (for example a build-over agreement with the WA), but no Building Notice? Have they started on site yet? They don't have to submit it in advance. Soakaway is allowable if they have permission to discharge to the main drain. I was expecting to get refused permission as it's a combined sewer but my WA seemed quite happy.

 

Nevertheless since it appears that the neighbour may not be as 'sharing' as you would wish, I sympathise and hope that it is not too stressful.

[saveasteading]

I don't think you answered " where is the boundary?"

[Spinny]

2 hours ago, saveasteading said:

Rules are rules.

Yes and no. I have zilch experience just one build and 3 years of issues. I have no direct experience of LABC. My BC provider has been OK, but I would say inspections have sometimes seemed cursory, not lifting the carpet to see what might lie underneath. I recall having to ask them to come over and look closely with me at how the radon, vapour barrier and DPM had been done by lifting up sheeting to reveal it. No doubt experienced people cast an eye over and would say they can tell at a glance whether it is a well managed site with a competent builder - no need to dig. In contrast workmen told me stories of jobsworth LABC taking 5 days to turn up then insisting the foundation trench was 100mm short on depth so yes they would have to spend days diggin and cutting into bedrock.

 

There are also chunks of the regs left open to judgement and interpretation. It feels a bit galling when you have ticked all the boxes working with an architect and structural engineer on test pits, soakaway sizing, radon barriers, fire rated cladding, wired smokes, drain design, lintel calculations, steel specs, vent positions etc. Then you see someone doing none of that and sowing seeds for future owners of that building for the next 100 years - sign it off when done - no soakaway, no radon control, timber cladding, a battery smoke, built over drain, no calcs, vents in non permitted places.

 

Call me a sceptic when it comes to human nature.

 

[Redbeard]

 

20 minutes ago, Spinny said:

There are also chunks of the regs left open to judgement and interpretation. It feels a bit galling when you have ticked all the boxes working with an architect and structural engineer on test pits, soakaway sizing, radon barriers, fire rated cladding, wired smokes, drain design, lintel calculations, steel specs, vent positions etc. Then you see someone doing none of that and sowing seeds for future owners of that building

 

Even when I have been doing stuff on a Building Notice I have had to provide SE calcs for lintels, footing pits etc. Likewise they can require wired linked smoke alarms (which in my particular case have been a PITA) and will ask you to  answer requests for fire rating details. I have found, since the 2022 regs, that some BCOs are not 100% sure what they need to be asking for. I was asked re surface spread of flame for rigid wood-fibre-board with 8-10mm plaster on. I Q'd it and they withdrew that request, acknowledging that the board was completely covered, with approx 30 min fire resistance in the plaster. I agree wholeheartedly, though, that checking is important. I used to get a bit fed up when BCOs did *not* check and ask Qs re my work.