FTB - appointing a structural surveyor

dragilex

After the success of the thread I started looking for a solicitor I was wondering if there's similar links for structural surveyors?

Do you go local for them, or are there nationally recognised ones? Which would best? Is there a listing of chartered surveyors like the solicitor society website?

Thanks

Trollfever

This may help:

http://www.rics.org/



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Fred56

http://www.istructe.org/findanengineer/Pages/default.aspx

Or you could try a real engineer instead of an estate agent.

G_M

Do you mean structural engineer or surveyor? Different animals!

Fire_Fox

I can't think of a polite way of putting this ... Why don't you try Google or the MSE search function before you ask such basic questions?

dragilex

Fire_Fox wrote: »

I can't think of a polite way of putting this ... Why don't you try Google or the MSE search function before you ask such basic questions?

Well I'm sorry for trying to find out information when I'm in the process of buying a house and am pretty busy in life. Most of the people on this forum have provided invaluable help and advice without the need to be flippant and rude. Do you not think that I would be doing web searches forum key word searching at the same time and would be seeking advice in new threads to maximise the advice I can get my hands on.

I can't think of polite way of putting this.... Why don't you read threads that aren't such basic questions and perhaps I won't offend you as such.

Sammy85_2

Are you taking a mortgage?

Most lenders will appoint a surveyor for you, you just need to specify the level of survey you wish to pay for.

dragilex

Yes we're taking a mortgage. Will the lender appoint a surveyor for a full structural? Or will that be left to us? I know they're appoint one for a valuation but we want to go the whole way.

And what's an average quote for a full structural. I've had one for £350

Sammy85_2

There are in general 3 types of survey:

*Basic Valuation
*Homebuyers Report
*Building Survey

When we took out our mortgage the costs were £150, £499 & £800. We opted for a Building Survey, but on receiving the report it wasnt much different in content to the Homebuyers report we had done on our previous house. In future i would only take the Buildings Survey if i was worried about the house structurally.