Browse Forums General Discussion 1 Jan 22, 2010 1:20 pm So my neighbour has decided for some reason he would like a step down/sunkun garden and has removed upto 10 trucks of soil from his house. However the issue is in themean time he was removed soil away from my fence so now my fence and soil is not supported from his side. I think a retaining wall is no needed in this case, however how do i get him to put one in?? Also if his house hasnt got occupency can his servayour knock back his approval. What is the best why to go about this?? Re: Retaining Wall 2Jan 22, 2010 2:18 pm 1st step is to talk to your neighbour Cheers Cozmo ______________________________ Building a PD Heywood 29 http://fromevetoeternity.blogspot.com/ Re: Retaining Wall 3Jan 22, 2010 2:31 pm I have. His idea was no probs as he is going to put expensive garden soil along the fence. I dont think he realises that once hey removes natural ground that you cant exactly put it back. I am pretty sure it takes millions of years to compact. Re: Retaining Wall 4Jan 22, 2010 3:20 pm Dont they have compacting machines that you can hire to do this?? You would think that if something was to happen to the fence he would be up for the costs to fix it and would prob have to put in a retaining wall then anyway. Also, if the retaining wall is less than 1m high he doesnt need an engineers report, he can just put one in. Re: Retaining Wall 5Jan 22, 2010 3:41 pm ... removed soil away from my fence so now my fence and soil is not supported from his side. I think a retaining wall is no needed in this case, however how do i get him to put one in?? Also if his house hasnt got occupency can his servayour knock back his approval. Would be good to get more precise info, such as: Has he removed all the soil right up to your fence? How much height has he removed (or, how high is the gap from the new ground level to the fence)? If he removed a lot and right up to the fence, I think that council would like to know about it. I know in many areas councils are sensitive to people changing natural ground levels willy nilly. Also, is he going to really fully replace (and compact) the 'expensive garden soil"? Do you have any pics? My signature is distracting people from my wise posts ... Re: Retaining Wall 6Jan 22, 2010 8:01 pm Depending on how much soil he's removed and what height difference there is between his lowered level and your original level, if he's within 1m of the boundary he may have to put a retaining wall in. Best to check your council guidelines. Good luck Re: Retaining Wall 7Jan 22, 2010 9:25 pm thanks for your replies guys. The owner has gone down about 300mm to 500mm. Need to measure to be exact. Basically what he has done is gone through with the bob cat right up to the fence as much as possible. On most posts you can see the concrete that was place around them to keep them stable in the ground. His logic was that the soil is **** and he wants to put a riased garden bed then replace it with good top/garden soil. I can just see it one day when it is windy the fence coming down. I will see if i can take some photos tomorrow. I can already start to see some parts of my land erroding under the fence, and falling onto his property. Re: Retaining Wall 8Jan 23, 2010 3:21 pm We cut about 800mm on our boundary about 10cm from the fence. And yes what do you know all the cement from the fence posts came away and the fence fell down in strong winds. We built a 1m high 27m long retaining wall so we could put the fence back in!!!! Whatever your neighbour decides to do with garden beds etc it is definitely his responsibility to retain as he's changed the levels. If the fence falls it's his responsibility to fix it too. Thank you again Simeon.. I will call my certifier for that. Have a good day 4 1328 Thanks for the insights, that makes perfect sense, and yeah, I will be leaning on the experience of the excavator operator entirely. 6 11055 Hi All, I engaged a tradie to install concrete retaining wall 600-800mm high over 32 meters in Victoria. Sleepers are 200*75*2000 mm installed over 17 steel posts. I… 0 3710 |