by main-user | Jul 28, 2022 | News
Victorian properties are generally built with timber sub floors to ground and upper levels with the exception of the rear addition which is sometimes built with concrete oversight. Timber sub floors often suffer from a camber, creak or are slanted. This can be a cause...
by main-user | May 18, 2022 | News
One of the main items of a building survey and one of the most commonly asked areas of investigation by clients is around damp. There are principally two types of damp, penetrating damp and rising damp. Some building surveyors may consider condensation as...
by main-user | Jan 13, 2022 | News
Loft Valuation At RES Property Surveyors, we are experts in loft valuations. Loft valuations usually occur, or are necessitated, by one of two routes, the first is as part of a 1993 Act enfranchisement claim and the second is as part of a commercial deal where a...
by main-user | Jan 6, 2022 | News
We have over the last 15 years been asked to value a number of large portfolios, a number within excess of 10 properties within the portfolio, which usually comprise of the family home and then a series of investment properties. These portfolios by nature are often...
by main-user | Jan 4, 2022 | News
The RICS published data on 19 November 2021 with the headline construction material costs increase reaching a 40 year high. The data behind the headline RICS costing figures showed that material costs alone had increased 4.8% over the course of 2021; however,...
by main-user | Mar 19, 2021 | News
In this building survey series we cover flashings – flashings form an important part of building survey reports. Flashings are used to weather junctions, such as to valley gutters or at the abutment of parapet walls and chimney stacks, these being a number of...
by main-user | Mar 12, 2021 | News
Undertaking building surveys in London means that you are almost certainly going to come across the ever present and constant that is the London Clay. London Clays fluctuate greatly in their water retention and desiccation properties. In simple terms, they...
by main-user | Mar 12, 2021 | News
We get many requests for building surveys and schedules of condition from clients whom are purchasing commercial property. There is a pertinent question in what to prescribe to a client who is in the process of buying a commercial property, should it be a...
by main-user | Mar 10, 2021 | News
We are often asked by appointing owners as to whether a Schedule of Condition is a compulsory part of a Party Wall Award. The simple answer is that a Schedule of Condition is not a compulsory part of a Party Wall Award and the Party Wall Award can be served without an...
by main-user | Mar 8, 2021 | News
Schedules of Condition are generally, and most commonly, used for three main purposes: to accompany a new commercial lease;to accompany to a Party Wall Award; andto accompany a Licence for Alterations. In all three instances, the Schedule of Condition is used to...
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