Building Survey

Our Instruction - To undertake a full building survey of a period residential property.

The Property - Detached C18 timber-framed building.

The Location - Essex.

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This survey was completed over a five hour period. It was a full building survey as opposed to a homebuyer survey, which typically takes only one to one and a half hours. Therefore, this greater level of inspection time makes a full building survey far superior in every way. We only undertake full building surveys because we firmly believe that you cannot properly inspect and report on the condition of a building in 60-90 minutes. For example, we typically devote 30 minutes of our overall inspection time to a dedicated roof void inspection alone. 

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We were able to give good news to our client following our inspection, and we do this is initially by phoning them and thereafter we issue our written report electronically within 5 working days of our inspection.

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Issues were found, and that is not unusual for any building in our experience, and these included roof deflection caused by a compromised timber tie beam, condensation build-up within some roofs and a cement-based rendering applied to the period timber-frame element.

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The images below are only a small selection of those within our completed report.

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To view the slide show below, please click on either the left or right arrow, or just wait for the slides to change automatically.

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