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 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 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 [...]

Tweet The latest edition of the twice yearly “Exchanged” magazine for home buyers from the RICS is now available, free copies are available form Collier Stevens – just call us and ask!  There is also an associated website here.

Tweet That’ll be where I live and where our Kent office is located, one of the original Cinque Ports along with Hastings, New Romney Dover and Sandwich Hythe retains its slightly old world and, let’s be honest, slightly slow charm.  Not for Hythe the nightclubs and amusements of nearby Folkestone, [...]

Tweet This week all of our surveyors have been busy – hooray!  Although it’s holiday time and mean’t to be quiet we managed to do a building survey on 4 houses this week as well as prepare 3 schedules of condition for Party Wall Awards, survey a roof, get a [...]

Tweet Our top ten roof inspection tips for those buying a house…

Tweet A really nice link and description of mathematical tiles.  These tiles were popularly used on the south and south east of England as alternatives to brick work, we had always understood that his was to save on “brick tax” but the article suggests that they may predate this.  We [...]