Property News · February 9, 2017

Our dream home has been extended near trees – is subsidence a risk?


We are very concerned to find out whether the builders factored the neighbour’s trees into their work Q My husband and I are looking to move into a bigger house as our current two-bed, one-bath house has become too small for us.We have found our dream home. It is a semi-detached property with three bedrooms and three bathrooms, which was rebuilt out of a rundown two-bed house in 2015. The previous owner extended the house to the side all the way up to the neighbour’s boundary wall. What worries me is that the neighbour has a line of very tall conifer trees running along this wall. I am afraid these trees could cause us a great deal of subsidence trouble in future – although there don’t currently seem to be any signs of subsidence in the house. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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