Underpinning
I heard outrageously loud noises last week on Jan First week of Feb coming from my neighbors basement. Is it possible that he went under my side of the party wall and poured concrete? I spoke with engineer yesterday and this was his opinion. Please let me know what seriously think? Thanks.
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CarmenR | 6 years and 9 months ago
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This is so fun to watch.
Guest User | 6 years and 9 months ago
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If the lateral support was removed, what could happen to my house?
daveinbedstuy | 6 years and 9 months ago
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“Not sure,” “suspected,” “possibly,” “probably,” and “don’t know” being the keys here
Guest User | 6 years and 9 months ago
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In the apartment adjacent to me, the tenant did work and not sure if damage was done to the party wall or my fire rated walls. When I asked the engineer yesterday about the outrageously loud noise for 2 weeks, he suspected this was underpinning. The big job is rebrick, restoop, and change the cement of his house and possibly part of mine. He had a survey done on my property – the lady probably fudged the numbers to give him some of my property. I don’t know if the apartment /underpinning was prep work for the big job.
slopefarm | 6 years and 9 months ago
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Do you have any info beyond “loud noises” that specifically indicates underpinning?
Have you gone onto the building department website to look up the plans with this property?
Typically, underpinning is something you do when you are excavating or otherwise removing support for a shared wall. The more typical problem in NYC is that a developer does not do underpinning or shoring/bracing, etc but just digs away on their own property, removing the neighbor’s lateral support and hoping nothing bad happens.
If, IF, the neighbor is removing lateral support as part of preparing the job (whatever the job is, we readers here still do not know), then you want the neighbor to take precautions to protect the integrity of your wall. But I would think — but I don’t know — that underpinning is something that they cannot do without checking with you first if they are underpinning your property.