Estate Agents details can often build the reader’s anticipation up, just to be let down when you arrive at the property, with descriptions such as “Charming” – does not have stairs, “Quaint” – does not have windows and “Popular” – on a main road etc. Not on this occasion, this was no ordinary property survey I had turned …
STAIRWAY (AND OTHER LIVING ACCOMODATION) TO HEAVEN Read More »
A few months ago, I was surveying a converted flat in a Victorian terraced house. The apartment was located above the shops on first and second floors with the access to the loft. The external survey inspection did not reveal any defects to the roof coverings, which looked to have been replaced at some point …
It is often said that ‘that one waits ages for a bus, then two come along at the same time’. Just last week, at the end of June, something similar happened when carrying out a survey and assessing the cause of a largely hidden defect. It is easy to miss defects, perhaps even serious, particularly …
A few weeks ago, I was surveying a 1900’s semi-detached property in need of complete modernisation. I prefer to start my inspections externally first and had noted that the property had low subfloor ventilation which could allow water in. The ventilation had also been restricted by vegetation and raised external ground levels, so before entering …
Home is where the heart is they say. But the head must surely lead. This was my lesson from my last renovation. Less of a project and more of a labour of love. And laboured we did! I’m Ben, a trainee surveyor and homeowner. Here to write about the need for a consumer paradigm shift …
“Well of course not”, I hear you say. I imagine the homeowner of the house in Christchurch, Dorset, would have had a similar response. However, they have made national news after a video of the gable wall collapsing, narrowly missing a passer-by, went viral. Check out the screenshot from the video below…. This leads me …
This mid terrace house in east London was put on the market at the beginning of the current year, and we were asked to conduct a survey in May. The asking price was £525,000 and the buyer was informed that the property had a history of Japanese Knotweed, but this was treated under a 10-year …
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I have been asked to do my first ever ‘Blog’ and the first thing I asked myself was ‘What is a Blog?’ Good old google comes to the rescue and it is in fact an ‘online journal where a writer shares their views on an individual subject’. Well, there you go, now I know what …
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