Hi all, just finishing a new house and it has a slight issue in that the house next door is about 2 ft higher than mine (Terraced Blocks).
Throughout the rest of the estate the developer has done sandstone rock retaining walls, but for some reason this one has not got one on this side, but has an earth ramp instead.
This appears to have been made worse by suspected dirt from neighbours yard cleanup being added to this ramp.
This will prohibit the mandatory tinny and 4X4 from getting up the side, which was the reason for the design and positioning of the house.
THE SOLLUTION was to get the bobcat to cut to the boundary line and then put in a 2 ft high railway sleeper retaining wall attached to the hardwood fenceposts that will be there for the 1.8m high fence, thus getting full width of yard back.
THE PROBLEM is to my way of thinking, the retaining wall will prevent the neighbours house from wanting to become part of my yard. As I don't want this to happen I feel it would be fair that they cough up half of the cost for the fence and the wall.
They don't seem interested and have the house up for sale on completion and reckon I should sort it with the next owner.
Meanwile I can't do any landscaping until the cut is done.
So before I dish up a "Dose of Dave", has anyone got any suggestions or thought's.
PIC details: Pink line: old heights
Red on slab : extra fill depth now
Green line: New ground height/cut depth
Red on ground: Boundary/retaining wall line
Dave
Throughout the rest of the estate the developer has done sandstone rock retaining walls, but for some reason this one has not got one on this side, but has an earth ramp instead.
This appears to have been made worse by suspected dirt from neighbours yard cleanup being added to this ramp.
This will prohibit the mandatory tinny and 4X4 from getting up the side, which was the reason for the design and positioning of the house.
THE SOLLUTION was to get the bobcat to cut to the boundary line and then put in a 2 ft high railway sleeper retaining wall attached to the hardwood fenceposts that will be there for the 1.8m high fence, thus getting full width of yard back.
THE PROBLEM is to my way of thinking, the retaining wall will prevent the neighbours house from wanting to become part of my yard. As I don't want this to happen I feel it would be fair that they cough up half of the cost for the fence and the wall.
They don't seem interested and have the house up for sale on completion and reckon I should sort it with the next owner.
Meanwile I can't do any landscaping until the cut is done.
So before I dish up a "Dose of Dave", has anyone got any suggestions or thought's.
PIC details: Pink line: old heights
Red on slab : extra fill depth now
Green line: New ground height/cut depth
Red on ground: Boundary/retaining wall line
Dave