Should a house surveyor also quote for / do the work?...

sdee445

Bookworm105 said:

sdee445 said:

lfc321 said:

Was this surveyor also doing the valuation for the mortgage lender? Or was this a separate survey commissioned by your buyers?

Was this a general survey of the house or a specialist survey (eg a damp survey, where this kind of thing would be more normal). 

It was a damp/timber survey. It was a follow up to the general survey. So that's quite normal then to do the survey then quote to do the work?

oh, that is a very different scenario to a survey pending purchase your first post implied it was.
There are 2 types of "damp" surveyors

1. Those who work independently for themselves purely as damp "surveyors"
or
2. Those who are salesmen for a treatment contractor, but call themselves "surveyors".

For 1: Theoretically such independent people are supposedly less motivated to find "damp" as they are not looking to do the work to fix it themselves. That said, they can of course get a commission from the company "recommended" in their quote if they "find" damp. 

For 2: it would be 100% the norm for the "surveyor" to do a quote, the cynic would also assume it is 100% certain their survey will find "damp" that they can "fix" since he has a sales target to meet.

Ah right ok. It's my first time selling so this is all new to me. I thought a survey was a survey but clearly not! Thanks for explaining. Needless to say I won't be taking up his offer to do the work!