One of our core activities is to carry out structural inspections for people who are buying houses. Everybody wants to be absolutely sure that the house is not suffering from any kind of structural problem. They want to know that there is no found movement there is no crack damage anywhere the floors are flat…
House owners are definitely pushing the boundaries now in terms of what they can do to their houses compared to what was considered a normal alteration a few years ago. The not just taking the one single wall down inside the house. They are taking 2 or 3 walls down. They are not just installing…
Got a call from a gentleman during the week. He asked me if someone was going to buy a house then they should make arrangements to have a Homebuyers Survey carried out shouldn’t they? I said to be perfectly frank, a Homebuyers Survey may not necessarily be the best type of survey to go for.…
This Sixty Seconds was inspired by a structural inspection that I have carried out a few days earlier. A young couple just moved into a house. This is a house they had had their eye on for a long time because it was the right size of house and it was a good looking house.…
My client is in the process of buying an old empty pub. We’ll call it the Dog and Duck. He is acting as an agent on behalf of an organisation that wants to convert it to a club house. As with most pubs, the ground floor was a large open plan area with large beams…
A lady called me to say that she is in the process of buying a very nice period property in Priests Lane in Shenfield. The very first thing she said to me was that she was a cash buyer and that I had been recommended to her by one of the local estate agents. She…
A gentleman called me during the week and he asked me if I could do a report for him. I said yes no problem. I asked him if it was for a house. He said no is not buying anything. He is extending his house. I apologised to him for the misunderstanding. He said he…
Got a call from a lady during the week. She said she was buying a house she needed a homebuyers survey. She asked me if I did that type of survey and how much would it cost? I advised that I didn’t do home buyer surveys although that’s a pretty standard type of survey that…
My clients were in the process of selling their house. The buyer needed a mortgage and the Surveyor acting for the mortgage provider had identified evidence to indicate that there has been some structural movement in the house. As such, the mortgage provider took the view that they would not lend any money until a…