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Housing Disrepair and HHSRS Claims
About Steve Butler Nottingham RICS Surveyors
Steve Butler are independent Nottingham Surveyors with over thirty years experience of surveying in the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire area. Steve Butler has lived near to Derby and Nottingham all his life and is thus very familiar with the area. Our surveyors undertake surveys and valuations of residential property and houses for all kinds of purposes. We are interested in pre-puchase Level 2 Homebuyers, Level 3 Building Surveys, Help to Buy Valuations and valuations for matrimonial, insolvency and taxation purposes. Our surveyors aim to try and provide a rapid respone but with a high level of service based on our expert knowledge of Nottingham, impartial advice, and to be seen as entirely trustworthy.
NOTTINGHAM SURVEYORS PROPERTY SURVEY REPORT 1900 SEMI DETACHED HOUSE
Level 2 homebuyers survey of a 1900's house. The property had damp issues, poor underfloor, ventilation, an historic fire escape and boudnary walls that were in poor condition.
Steve Butler qualified as an RICS Chartered Surveyor in 1992 and has also passed the Government's Home Inspector Examinations and is a qualified commercial energy surveyor and associate member of the Chartered Institution of Legal Executives. Steve Butler Chartered Surveyors are regulated by the RICS and have to follow their rules of conduct. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is the leading property profession and requires high standards of integrity and responsibility of its members. Steve Butler Chartered Surveyors are entirely independent of any estate agents lenders or mortgage brokers and not not pay introductory fees ensuring our independence. Our valuations and survey reports are subject to audit by the RICS.
Nottingham Surveyors Survey Report on a 1960 Detached Bungalow
Property survey on a 1960 detached bungalow. The property had defective rainwater goods, subsidecne of both an extension and part of the original property, derelict gardens and trees pushing over a wall, and possibly a bullet hole in a window.
Our house and residential property surveyors undertake Level 3 building and structural surveys and Level 2 Hombuyers Surveys on all types of houses and residential property in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. If you are you buying a property in Nottingham then a pre-purchase Building or Homebuyers Survey may help avoid future expenses. We specialise in surveying and valuing residential property in Nottingham for all kinds of purposes including Help to Buy, housing association shared ownership sales, matrimonial matters, probate and insolvency and bankruptcy.
An RICS Building Survey will tell you about the condition of the property including the state of the chimneys, roofs, rainwater goods, roof edges, walls, floors, ceilings, partitions, windows and doors. We can tell you whether there is any structural movement or settlement, wet rot, dry rot, woodworm or damp problems. We give you an overview of the services such as the electrical installations, boiler, central heating, hot and cold water.
RICS Building Surveys provides a more detailed picture of a property’s construction and can be carried out on practically all residential properties.
The report is bespoke and tailored to your requests.
It is most suitable when the building is less conventional. This could be because it is very old, it has been built using unusual construction methods, or it is dilapidated. Similarly, it can be very informative if a building has been extensively altered.
An RICS Building Survey will tell you about the condition of the property including the state of the chimneys, roofs, rainwater goods, roof edges, walls, floors, ceilings, partitions, windows and doors. We can tell you whether there is any structural movement or settlement, wet rot, dry rot, woodworm or damp problems. We give you an overview of the services such as the electrical installations, boiler, central heating, hot and cold water.
RICS Building Surveyors Report on a leaning gable end.
A standardized report produced by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) to highlight significant problems and matters requiring urgent investigation.
It is designed to flag up major defects and problems that need urgent or significant attention, because such issues will affect the property’s value.
It is the cost effective choice for the majority of property purchasers.
A valuation of the property and estimation of reinstatement cost for insurance purposes is included as standard in both our Building Survey and Homebuyers Survey reports.
Due to the time taken to measure the property Building Surveys cost considerably more than the Homebuyers Report, however you should bear in mind that they are unlikely to find any serious defects to the property that the Homebuyers Survey and Report will not.
It is considered that the Homebuyers Survey and Report will be suitable for most clients.
Surveyors Report. Level 2 Homebuyers Survey Report on a 1900's terrace house.
Nottingham surveyors Level 2 Homebuyers survey report on a turn of the century terrace. The house had damage to the chimney, the ground floors were below pavement level, it had suffered from severe mining subsidence and had been subject to some substandard alterations including moving the kitchen in a former outhouse.
NOTTINGHAM CHARTERED SURVEYORS BOUNDARY DISPUTE SURVEYS
Our RICS boundary dispute surveyors can help property owners in Nottingham with Boundary Dispute, Right of Way and Land Registry Title Plan Surveys. Steve Butler has extensive experience of writing reports in to such matters including preparing CPR35 complaint reports for court and acting as an expert witness. Steve Butler membership of the Chartered Institution of Legal Executives is a particular advantage when drafting report for the Court and understanding pre-trial procedure. Steve Butler have a very accurate Total Station laser measure which can produce drawings in three dimensions and is particuarly useful for measuring the track and meanders of boundaries in relation to other objects. Plans can often by laid over original conveyance documents using CAD software for comparison purposes.
Nottingham RICS surveyors right of way and boundary dispute report
Our surveyors consdiered that the client had little going for her in trying to stop the neighbour removing a hedge but fortunately she had lived at the property for seventy years and was able to offer evidence that her father had planted the hedge and that the family had maintained it since.
Nottingham surveyors right of way dispute report
Conveyance documents showed no right of way existed and the OS sheet that an alternative right of way existed.
Nottingham surveyors report on a boundary where long standing features were the best evidence
The surveyor considered that the conveyance plan was not reliable for determining the boundary. Fortunately the survey revealed a number of original features that enabled an accurate determination of the boundary.
BOUNDARY SURVEY REPORT IN RESPECT OF THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN A HOUSE AND NOW SEPERATE DEVELOPMENT PLOT.
HOUSING DISREPAIR SURVEYORS FOR HOUSING DISREPAIR CLAIMS UNDER THE LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT AND AND HHSRS
Our Housing Disrepair surveyors defend all of the claims against a local authoirty near to Nottignham from their tenants. We are frequently able to throw out the claims made on behalf of tenants by cynical solicitors and surveyors, and on the few occasions of serious disepair ensure that our client can take early action to avert a serious claim and payment of compensation.
Surveyors Housing disrepair report prepared for the Nottingham property's landlord.
Steve Butler surveyors can help prepare schedules of condition prior to works on an adjoining property so that there is no argument as to wether the proposed works cause damage. Our surveyors can also draw up an agreement between the parties so that works are carried out in a manner that will reduce the risk of damage to an adjoining property and inconvenience to the neighbour.
Surveyors Acting as Expert Witnesses
This concerned a blocked walled detached house that was under construction. The cavity had been retrospectively insulated with foam. The mixing of the foam creates heat and it is also injected at high temperature. In this instance the temperature was too high and the heat from the foam caused all of the walls to expand resulting in vertical fractures at all of the corners both internally and externally. Method of repair was to insert stainless steel tiles in to a number of the horizontal mortar joints crossing the fractures and bond them in with an epoxy resin. The report prepared for the Court follows the photographs.
Nottingham Surveyors Structural Report for Insurers
This otherwise immaculate Nottingham house was written off by insurers following cracking due to a leaking lead pipe. Insuers refused to carry out repairs as the leaking lead pipe was in an adjacent uninsured property. The insurers paid the owners of the house its market value before the cracking and also let them keep it! The adjacent property was made subject to an order prohibiting habitation.
Nottingham Surveyors expert witness CPR 35 report on a collapsed wall for Nottinhgam County Court
In this case both parties were trying to deny ownership of a collapsed retaining wall. Our boundary surveyors were easily able to resolve the question of ownership by reference to the title deeds. The owners of both properties abutting the boundary wall then blamed the other for its substantial and expensive collapse. As the boundary wall remains unrepaired and unstable it is likely that the property on the lower side of the wall is not mortgagable knocking many thousands of pounds off its value. Our surveyors were able to demonstrate with a few trial pits constructed against the wall that the movement of the wall had occurred entirely above ground level on the lower side of the wall. This confirmed that the wall had collapsed because it had been unable to cope with the weight bearing against it rather than because the foundations had rotated due to supposedly leaking drains on the adjacent property as the owner of the walls structural engineer had tried to claim.
Nottingham Surveyors Report for Court. Tree damage to a property
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A large tree had pushed over a garage wall. The owner of the tree tried to argue that the garage hadd been built to near to the garage. Their experts questions trying to shift blame make interesting reading.
Surveyors Homebuyers Survey Report on a 1910 semi detached house
Surveyors Homebuyers Survey Report on a 1930 detached house
These steps are immediately behind a door which greatly increases the risk of a fall from anybody not expecting them. Ideally there should be a landing between the door and the steps although in this small Victorian terrace this is not practicable. Whilst you could not get building regulation consent to build these steps today the legislation is not retrospective.
These rafters are covered with mould. It is likely to be a combination of poor insulation in the roof void so that warm damp air is able to condensate out on the roof structure together with a lack of ventilation to blow the warm air out of the roof.
Dry rot decay. Dry rot likes warm damp conditions were the air is still. Usually triggered by a sudden change in moisture levels such as a leak. Once established if a small source of moisture remains the dry rot can spread far across a building and affect dry timbers. Treatment is expensive as all spores have to be treated and they can lurk in inaccessible places.