Beautifully Naive Thoughts

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Our Independent Surveyors are happy to help and advise you with regard to building surveys, independent valuations, property surveys, structural surveys, engineer's reports, specific defects report regarding problems such as cold bridging and dampness, home buyers reports or any other property matters and yes we will also help you design your loft conversion. Please free phone 0800 298 5424 for a friendly chat.

Originally the Company was set up with some beautifully naive aims - these being that if we offered the best surveys we would make a good honest living.

Big Business

Caveat Emptor

So this means the Estate Agent can recommend the Surveyors and Mortgage lenders - all owned ultimately by the same company.

Sometimes the Lender may give you the "choice" of companies on their panel - these companies usually/often have reciprocal agreements with the recommending company. They make it very difficult to use anyone outside this group - just try asking. Try our 'match the estate agent card game' - click here

Too important to leave to a production line

We have written many other building surveying articles. Here are some that may be of help to you when buying a property:

Estate agents recommend not having a survey

Location. Location, Location

Roofs and structural problems

Flooding and thawing problems in houses and homes

All Surveyors are not the same

We often see survey reports that are not worth the paper they are written on. We recently carried out a survey where the owners were so impressed with what we did they asked us to carry out a survey for them - the amazing thing was that they had just had a survey carried out by another Surveyor and could not understand it! Having read it we could see why, it did not give an opinion at all, it used technical language and had no heart and soul to it. Have a look at our contest for the worst Survey report in the 'Not worth the paper they are written on' section - available here

It may be easy but is it sensible?

An independent voice

Cause not Effect

We find time and time again that owners, builders and surveyors alike treat the effect of a problem without establishing the cause. It's often relatively easy to see the problem and effect and hard to see the cause. We always try to find the cause of the problem and would start by sending you a questionnaire to complete before the survey is carried out - you can view the questionnaire by clicking here.

A safety net - peace of mind

And finally a survey should give you a safety net. We take great pride in what we do. We will try and be conclusive in what we say (not always possible). On the building surveys for example, if something needs opening up, a floor for example, we will do our best to get it open (present owner's permission required of course).

If you feel we have missed something we are happy to return free of charge. We will talk and talk with you until you are happy to make a decision. Ultimately the decision is yours of course - we advise, you decide.

Beautifully naive thoughts

We still have beautifully naïve thoughts but now many years on we understand the property game. We have built up a fantastic client base on word of mouth recommendations from people who have discovered us one way or another.

Yes, sometimes you may have to wait a bit longer than you may want in an ideal world, but we do work as fast as we can, whilst offering the very best we can.

What do the circles and ovals mean?

Our Good, Bad & Ugly Building Surveys!

We would also like to introduce to you what we call our good, bad and ugly survey which is a building survey, sometimes known as a structural survey, and is something that we have developed over many years, in fact several decades. We have listened to feedback from our clients and amended and altered our surveys to make them easy to read and describe issues clearly. The key factor we believe is that our surveys are easy to understand in plain English

Have a look at examples of our Building Surveys

If you would like to see an example of our tailor made building surveys, w e are more than happy to provide you with them via email. Our building surveys contain an Executive Summary that highlights problems as well as photos, sketches and definitions that help to explain the specific problems that we find within the property.

Independent Surveyors

Commercial Property

We hope you found the article of use and if you have any experiences that you feel should be added to this article that would benefit others, or you feel that some of the information that we have put is wrong then please do not hesitate to contact us (we are only human).

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