Before the neighbours start, walk your house with EverStamp and photograph every wall, ceiling and crack. An independent service timestamps the file, so if damage appears later, the photos from before show what was already there.
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Old houses have cracks. Once the digging starts, nobody can say which ones are new without a record from before.
If the only photos belong to the other side, you depend on them to share those photos, and on the date they say they took them.
Settlement can take months to show. By then nobody remembers how the ceiling looked.
The Party Wall etc. Act 1996 covers new building on or at the boundary, work to an existing party wall, and excavation near and below a neighbour’s foundations. The Act itself does not require a record of your house before the work. A schedule of condition is that record: a dated account of the state of the neighbouring property, so that damage afterwards can be told apart from what was already there.
In the app, the Viewing template goes room by room and leaves space for remarks. A surveyor’s firm can set up its own schedule-of-condition template in the dashboard.
Put a ruler or a coin next to every crack. A crack without scale is hard to compare later.
Room by room, the party wall first. Photograph every existing crack close up, with something for scale.
An independent service timestamps the whole series. The date is then fixed, and anything added later shows up.
Send the report or a link to the neighbour or their surveyor. If damage appears later, a second file shows the after.
They open the file in the browser, with no account and nothing to install: every room in the order you photographed it, with the time from an independent service.
Not to take the photos. If surveyors are appointed under the Party Wall Act, your own dated file sits next to whatever they record.
Before any work starts next door, and close to the start date. The shorter the gap, the less room for doubt about what happened in between.
Yes, in the browser, without an account or the app. So can their surveyor and their insurer.
Make a new file of the same spots. The two files, each with its own timestamp, show before and after.
Basis is free: one file a month, with the same seal as Plus.