Building Survey Report: worried!!

macgyver

Doozergirl wrote: »

The only thing I'd add to G_Ms lovely reply is that the building beyond the WC sounds like an outbuilding to me? Would be better and cheaper to demolish it and buy a shed

And that if the artex is thought to contain asbestos then instead of scraping it off the walls you could skim, or more likely board and skim over it. As long as it's left alone, it's perfectly safe.

We've just had a survey on one of our houses and it is pretty ridiculous but I guess they have to earn their money. They commented that some of the plaster around the fireplace was a bit rough - the wall is 7m long and we decided to plaster in around the new fireplace and try to blend it in rather than fully re-skim a 7m by 3m wall! It isn't 'rough' in fact it isn't particularly noticeable at all. I certainly didn't even notice it and I've got pretty high standards and lived with it! He also noted that there was a join in a skirting board that wasn't very pretty. :wall:

These people train for years to state the obvious and pointless in a really scary way. A lot of it is valuable but seriously, if you don't know how to cut through the jargon, you'd be moving out of your own home in fear.

No, actually, the WC is the cloak room and the building beyond is the garage. I will try & attach a floor plan if I could

Doozergirl

The EA has no idea what an integral garage is, evidently.

And the surveyor couldn't work out it was the garage behind the WC? I give up!

macgyver

Doozergirl wrote: »

The EA has no idea what an integral garage is, evidently.

And the surveyor couldn't work out it was the garage behind the WC? I give up!

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