Hi all, The house next door is being extended and as part of that work our "semidetached" garage which we re-did about 5 years ago in breeze block and tiles was undetached from their horrible falling down asbestos garage.
Next doors owners want to cut the pillars which support the breezeblock walls back to flush with the outside of our garage (there are 4 pillars about 6ft apart along the outside wall of our garage so the inside of our garage has flush walls).
I believe that cutting these pillars will weaken the wall structure and make the garage fall down. If we extend pillars on the inside of our garage (Which wouldn't be as strong as the foundations weren't built to accommodate this) we won't be able to get the car in the garage and be able to open the doors to get out of the car.
Is there any other way of supporting a single breezeblock wall of 20 feet (5 mtrs) if these double thickness pillars are removed.? It's London Clay soil if that makes any difference.
I need a quick answer on this as I need to persuade him he can't do this in the morning.
Fortunately we neglected to sign any party wall agreement with him so we haven't technically agreed to anything but the removal of his part of the garage structure.
dedics