dpb

laws / directives on this?

We live in a terrace 6 houses, we are number 4 and ours together with 5and 6 project 4 feet further towards the road. Just stripped back wall and there's been movement and or water damage where ours projects out the 5' or so.

Our porch base has also slowly crumbled away , although apparently none of these houses porches have proper foundations.

House number 3 has totally patio front garden, downpipe from guttering goes sideways once hits the deck and along joining wall garden and simply ends there. Couple days ago the boys footballs were floating in 6 inches of water. Thier patio Is higher maybe 6" higher than ours .
I can see this getting acrimonious , I don't even know who owns the place there's girl maybe 30 with two sons and a baby she seems okay, only spoke twice , no dad around...not that I care.
But mum and dad, I presume, are around most days -. They haven't said a word to us since we moved in, always seem to be too busy....

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Sorry .

zip106

That just looks like movement from where the extra 5' of wall starts.

Are you thinking that rainwater from the down pipe has washed away your foundations?

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Thanks

IV been putting 2 and 2 together yes, I'm searching for why garden / porch is slowly sinking.
faster than number 5 even, who shares same plinth for porch

zip106

Could well be the reason.
A short term fix would be to get them (or offer to do it yourself) an extra length of down pipe (or even a length of guttering under the spout) to the end of the existing and lay it along the floor and drain into any garden nearby.

Your next job would be having to dig a hole down to your foundation to see if there's any left.
Are you built on clay by any chance?

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It does go along the floor zip ( not sure if it always has done, or whether it just ended vertical in the corner ) . The Pipe just ends in the front corner of thier patio .Water forms a lake between their front wall their patio and our shared garden wall ( all slightly dodgy brick)

We are on south sussex coast 100 yards from sea, so I'm assuming gravel chalk and...

Gutter at back meets downpipe at our house and downpipe disappears into ground and onto drain in middle of shared courtyard 2 doors down.

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Hasn't washed main house foundation. ( theres basement breeze block wall facing front patio ) , it's slightly moist on basement floor sometimes.

I'll have to be doing some searching on the law on this,

zip106

Is there no way the water can be channelled away from the wall and into some garden?
Only a short term solution, mind.

dpb

Patio is the garden man, then it's pavement.

They could perhaps make hole in front wall for it to drain onto pavement

If this is causing the sinkage, it's difficult to believe it wasn't thought of when they were put up 40 ish years ago ??