The Party Wall Act and its associated Party Wall Notices is an area of law that stands on the one hand to protect the walls which separate us from our neighbours and on the other hand to enable us to carry out work to those walls which we are perfectly entitled to do in a properly structured framework. If you are a building owner or an adjoining owner as defined by the party wall etc act QMECH Enviro will ensure party wall notices and party wall awards are processed in accordance with the Party wall act. Thereby ensuring all parties rights and obligations under the act are discharged in the most effective manner. The separating walls between buildings came over time to be known as party walls and in the modern law can also be referred to as party structures. It is the responsibility between neighbours to keep these separating walls in good condition and to agree with each other how to go about the work when one of them wants to repair, alter or extend it. Although greatly beneficial to owners of all types of buildings the Party Wall Act is nevertheless complex. It applies with equal relevance to commercial and residential properties and cannot be applied without the services of surveyors who are appointed within the meaning of the Act.