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Home Buyers Survey, Building Surveys

Retrofit Cavity Wall Insulation

The Department for Business Enterprise and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) launched The Energy Companies Obligation (ECO) in 2013 with three principal aims: The Carbon Emissions Reduction Obligation (CERO), The Carbon Saving Community Obligation (CSCO) and the Home Heating Cost Reduction Obligation (HHCRO). ECO incubated significant Cavity Wall Insulation (CWI) start-up companies/providers across the UK, with installers …

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Derby Surveyors

From Collecting Glasses to Collecting Moisture.

I carried out an interesting survey in Gloucestershire this June. The weather at the time of the inspection was warm and sunny. This proceeded several weeks of warm, relatively dry weather (which usually makes penetrating or rising dampness harder to find). The property I was surveying originally started life as a public house. Part of …

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Property Surveys, RICS Homebuyer Reports, Building Surveyors Near Me

STAIRWAY (AND OTHER LIVING ACCOMODATION) TO HEAVEN

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 …

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