Tweet The RICS are consulting for new Information Paper which aims to help valuers and consider the implications of Japanese Knotweed – an invasive plant feared for its damaging effects and ability to grow through masonry, concrete and we suspect kryptonite.

Tweet … we just see stuff and think it’s rubbish.  It could be view, a building, a road arrangement or some other equally poor aspect of London life.  You know how it is, you see it, you moan about it and then you forget about it.  Then we saw this [...]

Tweet There’s some internet  interest in what are known as Ghost Signs – the remains of painted advertising signs on the sides and walls of buildings.  We quite like them an keep our eyes open for them.  Here’s one we really like spotted during a building survey in Tonbridge, Kent.  [...]

Tweet A “heritage” selection today, you see you can’t be a Chartered Building Surveyor without loving buildings old and new, firstly there is a new publication from Save Britain’s Heritage  – Take a Chance on Me, The Buildings at Risk Catalogue 2011-201.  They Say “It features a selection of 100 [...]

Tweet That surveyors are back in the newspapers on account of over valuing – Telegraph article here – we’re can’t see on reading it however that the headline claim that he Housing Market has been “hit” is supported by the article or make the leap from surveyors being sued to [...]

Tweet If you have tried to email us this morning we might not have received it. Our Exchange server seems to have thrown it’s Microsoft toys out of the pram. We’re on the case and have some very clever people working on it right now. UPDATE. Matrix IT seemed to [...]

Tweet Asbestos is present in many of the surveys we undertake, particularly those of properties that were built between say 1930 and 1980 or were otherwise worked on or converted into flats.  Care needs to be taken if you have or suspect you have asbestos in your home.  Asbestos can [...]

Tweet Surveying a large house in London currently used as the London Mennonite Centre – no, I didn’t know about he Mennonites or Anabaptists either, find out more here

Tweet Advice to landlords about hidden gas boiler flues – Landlords and homeowners need to take action now to meet new rules for concealed flues serving gas boilers, according to Heating and Ventilating Review (HVR). – Landlord alert on concealed gas boiler flues

Tweet From April 30 2011 the RICS Registered Valuer scheme comes into force, the scheme will assure the quality of valuations – a key component underpinning most economic activity – raise the credibility of valuers and provide clients with a clearly identifiable designation for the best regulated and qualified professionals [...]