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Free damp survey con
beverley1471
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I have recently had a very bad experience with a free damp survey. I was selling my house, and the surveyor doing the homebuyers survey said the walls were damp, and recommended my buyer to get a free damp survey, with his mates firm. I have since read about damp meters, and the surveyor doing the homebuyers survey, put his fingers by the probe when he was doing the readings, so the readings can’t have been accurate.
During the free survey, the bloke claimed there was a very common fault with all houses built in the 1970’s, which means they get bridging and rising damp, needing damp courses. He put a damp meter on a few walls, but only by the skirting board, no higher up. In the end I asked him to leave my house. I read about bridging afterwards, and my house has no evidence of this, and the blue engineering bricks are all well above ground level.
My house has never shown any evidence of damp, and these idiots cost me my house sale, I can’t believe they can act this way with no consequences at all for their actions! I’m going to stay and extend now, so worked out for the best in the end.
But to anyone selling, never allow a free damp survey, insist on a independent one or pull out of the sale! A bit long winded for this small piece of advise I realise.
During the free survey, the bloke claimed there was a very common fault with all houses built in the 1970’s, which means they get bridging and rising damp, needing damp courses. He put a damp meter on a few walls, but only by the skirting board, no higher up. In the end I asked him to leave my house. I read about bridging afterwards, and my house has no evidence of this, and the blue engineering bricks are all well above ground level.
My house has never shown any evidence of damp, and these idiots cost me my house sale, I can’t believe they can act this way with no consequences at all for their actions! I’m going to stay and extend now, so worked out for the best in the end.
But to anyone selling, never allow a free damp survey, insist on a independent one or pull out of the sale! A bit long winded for this small piece of advise I realise.
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This has been standard advice on here since before I joined.beverley1471 wrote: »insist on a independent oneI am a mortgage broker. You should note that this site doesn't check my status as a Mortgage Adviser, so you need to take my word for it. This signature is here as I follow MSE's Mortgage Adviser Code of Conduct. Any posts on here are for information and discussion purposes only and shouldn't be seen as financial advice. Please do not send PMs asking for one-to-one-advice, or representation.0 -
This comes up again and again.beverley1471 wrote: »I have recently had a very bad experience with a free damp [STRIKE]survey.[/STRIKE]sales visit. I was selling my house, and the surveyor doing the homebuyers survey said the walls were damp, and recommended my buyer to get a free damp survey, with his mates firm.
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
I have since read about damp meters, and the surveyor doing the homebuyers survey, put his fingers by the probe when he was doing the readings, so the readings can’t have been accurate.
During the free [STRIKE]survey[/STRIKE]sales visit, the [STRIKE]bloke[/STRIKE]salesman claimed there was a very common fault with all houses built in the 1970’s, which means they get bridging and rising damp, needing damp courses.
and I suppose his firm were able to fix this....
But to anyone selling, never allow a free damp survey, insist on a independent one .
and again.
and again.
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Isnt this something that trading standards could crack down on?0
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Isnt this something that trading standards could crack down on?
As someone who was forced to change career when his local authority downsized its Trading Standards department to 3 people
I can promise you unless they absolutely have to investigate/enforce, there is no budget to look into it An answer isn't spam just because you don't like it......0
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