can I trust the party wall surveyor?

[kcseb]

Hi all

I have a mid-terrace Victorian in London, we're currently building a single-storey extension. To avoid party wall issues, we will build a brick pier out to support the required RSJ, rather than tamper with the party wall.

However I now understand that my works may still come under the Party Wall Act, due to our new foundations possibly being deeper (at 1 metre) than the neighbours': to be on the safe side, last week I contacted a surveying company that specialises in party wall issues to get help/advice.

The surveyors got back to me same day and asked for plans to confirm whether the Party Wall Act is relevant. I sent these straight away, and since then (end of last week) the surveyors have been ignoring my follow up correspondences!

Could they now be contacting my neighbours 'ambulance-chaser' style, to act for them? Since I told the surveyors that 1) we commenced building work, and 2) the house address was on the plans!

Or am I being paranoid?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Nakajo]

You're bring paranoid. If they were to do this, and you were to discover that they had done that, they would be in serious trouble. So, I think it's fairly unlikely. How far are your works a) from the boundary and b) from your neighbour's structure?