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Photo showing part dismantled room wall. Green line shows the property dividing line (brick wall down to cellar below), where the approved 1970 plans show the room to be. The blue line is where the 1970 wall was built. The "fire break" consists of 3 layers of concrete blocks, sitting directly on the chipboard floor with a studding wall inside. There is a 6" gap with below the chipboard. |
Modification to your plans shown as in previous picture |
The 1970 plans which were approved by planning authority. The green line shows the new room outline which follows the boundary shown here |
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| The full area. The block wall is the 1970 fire wall. The party wall goes between the two close joists at the RH side. There is a layer of lath obscuring it, but it is immeadiately below the lath. |
approximate plan view |
The LH corner of the extra bit (see previous picture) The sheet of Gyproc is approx in line with our side of the brick party wall underneath. The party wall underneath is a single skin of bricks, very hard to get to. You can see the ends of the floor joists that rest on it. |
The RH corner. The three sheets of unsupported plasterboard at the RH side are nailed to the lath and plaster tower, which is tapered, and so are not vertical (leaning towards us by about 10cm at the top). |
The roof area above the extra space, showing the top of next doors room (bottom centre) and next door's skylight tower (RHS), the pipe is the stink pipe for both houses that comes up through from the cellar. |
| Showing roof void above existing attic conversion and existing "firebreak" consisiting of single sheet of plasterboard upto roof joist level. |
Showing outer wall of the area we will change, showing old three brick layer structure, plasterboard firebreak and inner timber construction and inner plasterboard wall. The white wall on LHS is party wall as per 1970 conversion, constructed in the same manner, which will not be touched. |
Problem corner. Party wall should be around the bottom LH wooden structure - underneath the timber/plasterboard which is next door's room (top left and centre), and between the lathe tower and the wooden beam (bottom right). |
Pullback of previous picture showing entire area of new wall that needs to be constructed. |
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