Neighbour’s renovation damaged my wall
Update: Contractor said that the wall was shoddily built in the first place, he’s willing to fix it (the way he phrases it is as a favour to us), acknowledges that he didn’t do pre-survey but said that it would have cracked anyway.
So apparently it’s our fault as well? Says he’s straight up not going to pay for a third party to fix it, and that getting HDB would only result in us & neighbour splitting the cost. Can somebody confirm?
I suspect he’s trying to take advantage of the fact that we don’t have much construction knowledge, mom wants to give in and just let them repair the wall w/o getting hdb involved but at this stage I don’t trust them??
As per title, neighbour has been renovating for probably about a week, and one fine day we noticed that our wall was kinda protruding in the middle & had cracks along the walls, very obvious and huge ones. The wall was still fine the day before.
We spoke to the contractor, they came down to have a look but what they initially proposed was for us to bear half the cost of repairs.
Of course we found that ridiculous – it had been totally fine for 20+ years, now that they have damaged it, we still had to pay to fix it? We rejected it and they said they would speak to the owners and get back to us again.
Would like to ask:
is there any recourse for us if they insist on us sharing half the cost?
what we requested was simply for them to restore the wall to its original state. however is there a possibility that they may do a shoddy job just to placate us?
anybody experienced the same? how did that work out?