INDEPENDENT ESTATE AGENTS
ESTABLISHED 1996
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Focusing preparation efforts on the right areas before listing helps you avoid difficult price negotiations down the line.
The primary focus is on identifying defects that might affect your property's value or safety, such as damp, subsidence, structural movement, and building regulation compliance issues. Surveyors also flag potential legal problems, such as unauthorised extensions or missing warranties.
A Level 2 Home Survey, a popular choice for home buyers, includes a comprehensive visual examination of accessible areas, covering roofs, walls, floors, windows, and doors. Surveyors investigate loft spaces and assess how well your home keeps out weather and drafts.
Fixed services, including heating, plumbing, electrical systems, and drainage, are assessed, and any visible issues requiring further investigation are noted. They also inspect the outside of your property, checking boundary walls, fences, permanent outbuildings, and shared areas for flats, looking for movement, settling, or signs of damage.
Surveyors examine load-bearing elements, including the properties’ foundations, walls, beams, and roof structures, to identify stress, movement, or deterioration signs. They're specifically trained to spot subsidence indicators, like telltale cracks appearing around windows, doors, or wall junctions.
After checking what your home is built from and how it's constructed, surveyors determine whether any alterations or extensions have been done properly and meet building regulations. They inspect wood for rot, metal parts for rust, and brickwork for crumbling mortar joints.
Experienced surveyors spot problems that aren't immediately obvious, such as early signs of damp, woodworm infestations, and timber decay that could develop into serious structural issues. Using moisture meters, they test suspect areas for hidden dampness, particularly around windows, external walls, and basements. Roof spaces are examined for adequate insulation, proper ventilation, and signs of pest activity or water getting in.
Guttering, downpipes, and surface water drainage are evaluated, as well as signs of poor ventilation that could cause condensation problems. Even though surveyors only identify visible issues, their experience helps them spot potential problems and suggest when you need a specialist to take a closer look.
Knowing what surveyors look for puts you in a much stronger position as a seller. Focus your preparation on the areas they'll examine most closely: fix any visible damp problems, make sure your home is well-ventilated, check you have the right paperwork for extensions, and think about sorting out minor structural issues. Addressing potential issues before your buyer's survey strengthens your negotiating position.
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