Building Surveys Articles

As 2022 gets underway, are you an experienced surveyor looking for new challenges and additional work opportunities? As the business grows we are looking to bring on some new surveyors. Chawton Hill have a thriving and busy home surveying practice. We work with a...

Once again, this year, climate change has been at the forefront of people's minds. As COVID fades into the past, people have focussed on other pressing matters.  The shocking scenes of fires in Greece, and floods in places such as New Orleans have brought the climate...

We have written quite a lot about which type of building survey is best for your potential new home, such as What's in a Building Survey? or What is a Mortgage Survey? However, we haven't focussed on how you choose the right building surveyor to carry out your survey....

Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete roof planks (RAAC), were widely used in flat roof construction between the 1960's to 1980's. Unfortunately, the methods employed to construct some of these planks resulted in a relatively weak structure. One with a low capacity...