By P V Glover
1. Surveyors and their instructions2. apartment surveys three. Foundations four. partitions five. flooring 6. Roofs and chimneys 7. Joinery and carpentry eight. Finishes and surfaces nine. providers 10. The file eleven. domestic document 12. reviews on non-residential structures thirteen. stories on residences and different dwellings in a number of career 14. stories on new structures 15. experiences on older constructions sixteen. reviews on leasehold houses 17. reviews for potential mortgages 18. a standard development Survey file 19. criminal issues 20. Dilapidations 21. Conservation and the surveyor 22. The surveyor as a professional witness
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Good building practice is to maintain foulwater drains in a watertight condition in normal use and to lay storm drains watertight for a distance of 3 m from any structure. After this distance, storm drains may be laid as open-jointed land drains if required, and may run to soakaways if alternative stormwater sewers are unavailable and the soil is suitably porous. Clients will rarely give a thought to what happens to the storm and foulwater discharges from their property and their significance unless these points are described, 36 Foundations and their importance to the structure is discussed.
Drains blocked Tree management? Access from curtilage and adjacent public Areas only? Drains test advisable CCTV survey? Proposed new regulations for England and Wales from 2010 former PRIVATE SEWERS now responsibility of nine statutory water and sewerage companies so shared drains may be public sewers. Reduced potential liability for repair. Check for BUILD OVER AGREEEMENT if building is over public sewer – drainage authority has rights of access? 9 10 Organization An important attribute for any surveyor is that he or she has a good head for heights and is reasonably sure-footed when clambering into lofts or onto roofs.
55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. Excessive service charges to blocks of flats. Cracked and loose external rendering. Poor woodwork and sash cords to sliding sash windows. Hazardous large sheets of ordinary quality glass to walls and partitions. Excessively steep staircases and inadequate balustrades. Flat roofs used as terraces without proper wearing surface. External electrical circuits not in armoured conduit.