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• Category: Building Surveys
  • Checking for asbestos when buying a home
  • How do homebuyers know which survey to have and how do you find the right surveyor?
  • The importance of a building survey or homebuyer report
  • How long does a building survey or homebuyer report take?
  • Buying and maintaining coastal properties
  • Case Study: 19th Century Terraced House in Kent
  • When is an independent survey not really a survey?
  • This week our building survey saved a client £80,000
  • Finlock concrete gutters
  • Buying a house with sash windows?
  • A guide to conservation areas
  • Textured ceilings – the asbestos risk
  • New build homes: Do you need a building survey?
  • 5 reasons you need a proper building survey
• Category: Damp
  • Small home repairs that prevent expensive damage
  • Dry rot vs. wet rot: what is the difference?
  • Identifying cavity wall insulation problems
  • Condensation dispute calls for expert help
  • Don’t put off minor building repairs – 79p now or £1,000 then?
• Category: Disabled Access
  • Getting accessibility right
  • Tactile Paving – Guidance for Disabled Access
  • Colour contrasts – designing for the visually impaired
  • Accessible parking spaces
• Category: Expert Witness Reports
  • Challenging a local authority service charge
  • What is chancel repair liability and does it still apply?
• Category: Floors
  • Can I add a basement to my property?
• Category: General
  • Choosing the right builder and building contract
  • A guide to roof surveys: What’s included?
  • Identifying roofing and guttering issues
  • Common defects found in RICS surveys
  • Are old electrics a problem?
  • What is Japanese knotweed and how it does it damage property?
  • Measuring building height
  • When should gallows brackets be used?
  • A buyer’s guide to surveys and reports
  • Choosing the right survey and surveyor
  • What is brickwork spalling and is it a serious issue?
  • Snagging Survey vs Building Survey for new builds – What are the differences?
  • Advice for students undertaking questionnaires for their dissertations
  • Hythe and the risk of flooding
  • Home Insurance and Building Work
  • Surveying during Coronavirus
  • There’s more to your home’s foundations: Part 2
  • There’s more to your home’s foundations: Part 1
  • Why garden walls lean and collapse
  • The power of roots and poor retaining walls
  • Surveying Homes in Dungeness
  • Loft conversions: Your responsibilities for health and safety
  • Laing Easi-Form housing
  • Health, safety and the small builder
  • Surveyor or Chartered Surveyor? Knowing the difference
• Category: Other
  • Solar panels – what lurks beneath?
• Category: Party Walls
  • Party wall agreements: Chimney breast removal
  • Do I need a party wall agreement?
  • Would you ever have thought removing a chimney breast needed permission?
  • Do you need a party wall agreement for a loft conversion?
  • How quickly can I get a Party Wall Award?
  • Extensions: maximising space with eccentric foundations
  • What if I don’t receive a reply to my party wall notice?
  • Do I need a Party Wall Surveyor to get a party wall agreement?
  • How do you serve a party wall notice correctly?
  • Who can act as a Party Wall Surveyor?
  • When does a Party Wall Notice need to be served
  • Party walls – your questions answered
  • Party wall agreements for a wine cellar
  • Party wall problems: Absent freeholder
  • Do you have problems with your garden wall?
  • Don’t overlook party wall procedure
  • Cost effective party wall awards
  • Choosing a Party Wall Surveyor
  • Careful with that party wall injunction
• Category: Residential
  • Have you checked your gutters lately?
  • What problems do surveyors find with stairs?
  • What are the rules and regulations for loft conversions?
  • Advising neighbours of building work
  • Do balconies present a fire risk?
  • Could you save money long term by buying property that has a more expensive commute to work?
  • £1.5 million for a 2 bed-apartment, or a block of 38 flats?
  • Problems and Pitfalls with uPVC windows
  • Conservatory planning, construction and problems
  • Surveys of lofts and roofs – what we look for
  • Stairs – missing handrails
• Category: Roofs
• Category: Single Defect Report
• Category: Subsidence
  • Evidence of structural movement and subsidence within a property
• Category: Timber
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Case Studies

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• Building Survey - Planned Maintenance Survey and Report - Victorian Apartments - Folkestone
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• Building Survey - Grade 2 Listed Property - Chislehurst
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• Expert Witness - Service Charge Dispute - Central London
• Schedule of Condition - Industrial Unit - Folkestone
• Replacing paths in Hythe to improve disabled access
• Success at the First Tier Property Tribunal (FTPT) - South East London
• Residential Disability Alterations in Kent
• Party Wall Matters - Basement Construction in London
• Residential Disability Alterations in Bromley, London
• Expert Witness Report - Single Defect in London
• Schedule of Condition for Coastal Properties in Suffolk
• Project Services Residential Repair in Knightsbridge, London
• Party Wall Matters - Loft Conversion in South London
• ISVA Homebuyer Survey - Victorian Flat Conversion in Kent
• Expert Witness Report - Single Defect in Kent
• Party Wall Matters - Rear and Side Extension in London
• Party Wall Matters - Building Work in Kent
• Party Wall Matters - Residential Redevelopment in London
• ISVA Homebuyer Survey of Period Building in Kent
• Expert Witness Report for Window Installation
• Expert Witness Report - Conservatory Installation
• Disabled Access Survey - Pre-purchase Residential Survey
• Expert Witness for Block of Flats
• Party Wall Matters - Basement Conversion in Chislehurst
• Single Defect Report for Damp and Condensation in London
• ISVA Homebuyer Survey of Purpose-built Coastal Flat in Kent
• Full Building Survey - Semi Detached House in Bromley
• Full Building Survey of Edwardian House in Kent
• Full Building Survey of Bungalow in Kent
• Project Services for Property Repairs in Canterbury
• Project Services - Property Extension in Surrey
• Disabled Access Audit of Office Building in London
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• Disabled Access Audit for Kent Police
• Schedule of Condition for Apartment Building in London
• Schedule of Condition for Office Lease in Kent
• Schedule of Condition for Historic Wall in Ashford, Kent

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