Surveyor damaged carpets...or did he.

desthemoaner

youth_leader said:

I'm surprised he lifted them too.   Did he give a reason as to why he did it?

 When the independent damp/timber surveyor I engaged to check under my floors out put his damp meter on the carpet it registered 96. 

No specific reason was given to me, no. Perhaps the "steer" is that wooden floors require a more detailed inspection than concrete surfaces, because on a previous survey involving a building with concrete floors I'm pretty sure he only lifted carpet corners. 

TheJP

desthemoaner said:

youth_leader said:

I'm surprised he lifted them too.   Did he give a reason as to why he did it?

 When the independent damp/timber surveyor I engaged to check under my floors out put his damp meter on the carpet it registered 96. 

No specific reason was given to me, no. Perhaps the "steer" is that wooden floors require a more detailed inspection than concrete surfaces, because on a previous survey involving a building with concrete floors I'm pretty sure he only lifted carpet corners. 

Think you should in future bin this surveyor, i would want a definite reason as to why he needed to peel back the carpet, they also should have requested permission from the seller firstly.

deannagone

Yes. there's peeling an inch or two back to check the floor but 6ft worth of carpet being rolled back?  Not surprised its caused problems.  If they were professionally fitted originally, I'd want them fitted properly again, not have the surveyor trying to tug them loosely back into a rough position.  Mind you, I do possess the tools to do that myself lol.  Not everyone does.

youth_leader

Glad to hear it's resolved, all the best with your completion.  And I agree I'd dump this surveyor - six foot?! 

Ramouth

In some ways I think I would like a surveyor who was over thorough like this.  I offered to move stuff for the surveyor who came to look at the house we were saying and he actually said no “because then he would have to comment on it” which seemed pretty lazy to me.  Perhaps if we had your surveyor the first time we bought a house we would have known that the carpet was the only thing stopping us falling through the floor in the dining room!

Deedoodee

Ramouth said:

In some ways I think I would like a surveyor who was over thorough like this.  I offered to move stuff for the surveyor who came to look at the house we were saying and he actually said no “because then he would have to comment on it” which seemed pretty lazy to me.  Perhaps if we had your surveyor the first time we bought a house we would have known that the carpet was the only thing stopping us falling through the floor in the dining room!

I agree! Having recently spoken to a surveyor who said he can’t check anything unless the furniture has all been moved to the middle of the room, this surveyor sounds great. 

user1977

Deedoodee said:

Ramouth said:

In some ways I think I would like a surveyor who was over thorough like this.  I offered to move stuff for the surveyor who came to look at the house we were saying and he actually said no “because then he would have to comment on it” which seemed pretty lazy to me.  Perhaps if we had your surveyor the first time we bought a house we would have known that the carpet was the only thing stopping us falling through the floor in the dining room!

I agree! Having recently spoken to a surveyor who said he can’t check anything unless the furniture has all been moved to the middle of the room, this surveyor sounds great. 

Yes, we've had plenty of previous threads here about vague surveys because access either was genuinely unavailable or surveyors couldn't be bothered trying.