Surveying Services
Surveying Services
Our surveyors provide surveying services which covers home buyers with condition survey reports, energy assessments in providing energy performance certificates (EPC) for domestic and non domestic commercial property, plus many more professional services.
Building Survey (BS)
A Building Survey (often referred to as a Full or Structural Survey) is the highest level of non-invasive survey that surveyors usually carry out during the home-buying process. It is suitable for all properties but is often most applicable for older or more unusual properties, or properties where problems are suspected.
In most cases the buyer will be able to re-negotiate the asking price, redeeming their (BS) costs after being made aware of the true property condition. Also being assured the property has been inspected by a professional.
Building Surveys - call on 02392298954 or Email
The Building Survey contains information about:
– Building condition and defects
– Structural movement
– Damp, rot and woodworm
– Heating, water and electrical services
– Alterations and additions
– Matters for your conveyancer to pick up
– Advice on repairs
Report Content List
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Property Information
- 3 Conveyancing, and Health and Safety issues
- 4 Outside condition
- 5 Inside condition
- 6 Services
- 7 Grounds (including shared parts for flats)
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Home Buyers Surveys (HBS)
Professional Surveyors Offering a Personal Service
In most cases the buyer will be able to re-negotiate the asking price, redeeming their (HBS) costs after being made aware of the true property condition. Also being assured the property has been inspected by a professional.
Home Buyer Surveys – call on 02392298954 or Email
The Home Buyers Survey contains information about:
– Building condition and defects
– Structural movement
– Damp, rot and woodworm
– Heating, water and electrical services
– Alterations and additions
– Matters for your conveyancer to pick up
– Photos
Report Content List
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Property Information
- 3 Conveyancing, and Health and Safety issues
- 4 Outside condition
- 5 Inside condition
- 6 Services
- 7 Grounds (including shared parts for flats)
More Information on Building Surveys (PDF Format):
Snagging Survey for New-build homes
When buying a new-build property, you’d expect to avoid all of those structural and cosmetic issues you find in older homes. Everything should be pristine. This isn’t always the case, however. The speed and large sites at which homes are constructed today often leads to issues and defects throughout the property.
A must for any newly constructed home
- The ONLY survey of its type based on industry-compatible standards
- Identifies “snags” in finishing quality
- Designed to help avoid buyer/developer conflict by impartially identifying incomplete or cosmetically unacceptable works
- Focus on the parts of the property you see, touch and use every day.
New Build Snagging Surveys call on 02392298954 or Email
What is a snagging survey?
A snagging survey is designed to check for problems with a new-build home.
The best time to have a snagging survey done is the period between building work being finished and your legal completion date, so the developer has time to fix any snags before you move in.
However, some developers won’t allow snagging inspections to be done before completion, and may deny access. If this is the case with your purchase, your conveyancer may be able to intervene with the developer and arrange access by invoking your legal interest in the property.
If this isn’t possible, you should book the snagging survey as soon as you can after you’ve moved in. That way, the developer is still likely to be onsite, building the other houses, and you’ll generally have a bit more leverage with them at this stage than further down the line.
That said, you can technically have a snagging survey done at any time during the first two years of living in a new-build home, and the developer must repair any defects reported during this period. It might just take a bit longer to get things sorted.
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The report is produced by an accredited inspector/surveyor who will provide an opinion about the condition of the property which you, as the buyer, will be able to rely on and use.
Buy To Let Surveys (BTLS)
Professional Surveyors Offering a Personal Service
In most cases the buyer will be able to re-negotiate the asking price, redeeming their (BTLS) costs after being made aware of the true property condition. Also being assured the property has been inspected by a professional.
Buy to let Surveys – call on 02392298954 or Email
The Buy To Let Survey contains information about:
– Dash Landlords decent & safe home review
– Building condition and defects
– Structural movement
– Damp, rot and woodworm
– Heating, water and electrical services
– Alterations and additions
– Matters for your conveyancer to pick up
– Photos
Report Content List
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Property Information
- 3 Conveyancing, and Health and Safety issues
- 4 Outside condition
- 5 Inside condition
- 6 Services
- 7 Grounds (including shared parts for flats)
More Information on Building Surveys (PDF Format):
Single Defect Report
Giving you independent professional advice. Single defect reports look at a particular problem on a property, how it has been caused and how to resolve it.
Examples
1, Damp in walls
2, Cracks in walls
3, Drops in floors
4, Rot in timbers
Single Survey Report call on 02392298954 or Email
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Sample Single Defect Survey
Domestic EPCs – Energy Performance Certificates – from £35.00
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An EPC can only be produced by either a Domestic Energy Assessor (DEA) or by a Home Inspector (HI) who must be approved by either a government approved Accreditation or Certification scheme. The DEA/HI will visit the property to assess the energy related features. These are then entered into a computer programme, which is a calculation model developed by the government, known as RDSAP ( Reduced Data Standard Assessment Procedure).
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Our prices for areas we cover are from:
Bed-Sit: £35
1 Bed Flat: £47
2 Bed Flat: £48
1 & 2 Bedroom House: £49
3 Bedroom House: £50
4 Bedroom House: £65
5 Bedroom House: £70
6 Bedroom House: £75
More complex properties with more than average heat loss perimeters will cost more.
Commercial/Non Domestic EPCs – Energy Performance Certificates – from £150.00
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Below is our Commercial EPC price for areas we cover. Structure for floor areas.
Under 15m² (139.2 ft²): £150
15m² to 25m² (232 ft²): £200
25m² to 50m² (464 ft²): £240
50m² to 75m² (696 ft²): £280
75m² to 100m² (929 ft²): £300
100m² to 150m² (1393 ft²): £320
150m² to 200m² (1858 ft²): £380
200m² to 250m² (2322 ft²): £400
Commercial EPCs over 250m²: Free quotes can be provided after competing questionnaire or visiting site.
All prices are subject to VAT.
A commercial EPC can only be produced by a Non Domestic Energy Assessor (NDEA) who must be approved by a government approved Accreditation scheme. The NDEA will visit the premises to assess the energy related features. These are then entered into a computer programme, which is a calculation model developed by the government, known as iSBEM (Standard Building Energy Model).
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Hometrack Property Valuation
We offer a quick and easy property valuation service for just £25. The below image shows an example of the report you will receive.
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Link To Customer Reviews
Steve surveyed a property I was buying at auction and gave a cery reasonable quote for work. It was conducted a few months later by John who contacted me to arrange and carried out the work very efficiently. Would definitely recommend again.
These guys really helped me out as i was let down by another company Steve and John very were friendly ,carried out a wall tie replacement,would totally recommend them.First Class
Pleased with the work, took a lot longer than I was expecting, would have been good to have heads up of a schedule of works as week taken off work and had to cancel a short break as work overrun after a delay on first day. In Hindsight and more knowledge before the works commenced we could have worked around everything a bit better. On the whole completed work good, John was great, good personality, polite and helpful. Would definitely use Southern Preservations again.
Steven has been really helpful and clearly knows his stuff when it comes to the damp problems in my house.
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