Tweet Popular back in the sixties concrete gutters are very much of their time and in most cases past it as well.  We come across them every now and then when we do a building survey and rarely if ever are they found in good working order.

Tweet Without wishing to underestimate the heartache and damage that comes with flooding, yesterdays  statement regarding the risk of flooding by the ABI [Association of British Insurers] has been seized upon by the popular media and made to sound as though the residents of Folkestone & Hythe  should be equipping [...]

Tweet They’re, up they’re down.  Its the end / the beginning of the  month so any number of reports, headlines, scare stories, talk ‘em up stories.  The Land Registry House PriceIndex by London Borough is quite interesting though as to my mind it gives the lie to “London powering ahead” [...]

Tweet For those in London [and elsewhere] an absolutely brilliant piece about the Hammersmith Flyover, some people just have an ability to explain complicated structural details in a way that’s easy to understand.  “What’s wrong with the Hammersmith Flyover”

Tweet If you plan to do building works that may affect a party or structure (a ceiling for instance) between you and a neighbour then the provisions of the Party Wall act may apply.

Tweet Double hung timber sash windows look great on older or period homes but they can be draughty and offer poor thermal performance, assuming you want to keep them and not replace them with modern double glazed units[we wouldn’t unless they look the part!] then there are a number of [...]

Tweet So just before Christmas we carried out at building survey on a small, late nineteenth century terraced house on the Kent coast, it needed some work as it had been lived in by an elderly occupant.  There was an extension that appeared to have been constructed in the 1950s [...]

Tweet Quite often what appears to be an easy way to make a room bigger in an older house is to think about removing the chimney breast – at first thought it seems easy, knock it out with a sledgehammer, bag up and remove the rubble, plaster up, decorate and [...]

Tweet “MP condemns Basement Conversions” a short article about a debate in the commons last week moaning about basement conversions and developments, looked a bit insubstantial and despite their statements to the contrary a little nimby and a little bit xenophobic to us!!  Here’s MP Karen Bucks comments and here [...]

Tweet We posted recently about a pre purchase building survey we carried out in a building at Dungeness,  that post caught the eye or Google search of another prospective purchaser and we have recently been back on Dungeness Estate  [map of the estate here] surveying again.  What seems to be [...]