Perfectly placed to provide building surveying services.
Building Consultancy
Perfectly placed to provide building surveying services.
Technical expertise to protect and enhance your property assets.
Sanderson Weatherall provides a full suite of building surveying services across the UK. We act for a wide range of clients ranging from multi-national companies, public sector organisations, charities, business occupiers, property investors and private individuals. The whole property lifecycle is covered – from inception to delivery to completion.
Why Sanderson Weatherall?
Our Chartered Building Surveyors combine technical precision with commercial awareness applying today’s compliance standards using modern techniques allied to experience and expertise.
We deliver clear, actionable advice and reports that allow you to make informed decisions regarding your property. Working alongside the Architectural team, we together form the Building Consultancy Division and are experts in all aspects of building.
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FAQs
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As building surveyors, we have the expertise to assist in decision making as we are able to provide professional advice and opinions and help clients to formulate what to do. This expertise applies to being able to diagnose a building and its defects, assess the risks and priorities, and helps to apply budget constraints to find a solution. So if you want to have a professional help you make decisions and understand financial constraints and assess the risks contact one of the building surveying team.
This commonly occurs and by their knowledge and expertise building surveyors can understand building construction without having to have an empty building or space. The knowledge of how a building is constructed then leads to the ability to look for defects that are known or likely to occur which then leads to being able to identify any issues or defects in the building. Of course, if a building or space is occupied or operational during an inspection this has to be recorded in any report because it does mean there may be a limit on the extent of the inspection carried out. However, such limits would not impact the overall findings of the inspection and would not affect the conclusion of the survey report.
Our service does not end with the submission of a report – we are always available to answer any questions arising from a report that we have prepared. If the report makes recommendations, we are willing to assist and where appropriate can act for you to deliver the action points detailed in the report. When reports recommend future action or review we at Sanderson Weatherall are able to assist in the future.
A building survey or condition survey carried out by a Sanderson Weatherall building surveyor for a client prior to entering into a lease will provide information about the extent of liability for defects found and enable negotiations to reduce the repairing liability under the lease prior to signing it. This may result in a schedule of condition being prepared and included in the lease to minimise repairing liabilities. The building surveyors at Sanderson Weatherall can prepare schedules of condition. At the end of the lease in the absence of any schedule of condition or photographic record the photographs in a building survey report might be useful in the dilapidation negotiations.
A building surveyor is trained and has a depth and breadth of knowledge and expertise of building construction which enables them to understand how a building being inspected is built.
We always strive to make our reports and any document we produce for clients understandable and easily accessible. Any report we prepare has to have some technical content because it is dealing with construction or property or legal issues and therefore there may be elements which a lay person might find difficult to understand. But as mentioned elsewhere in these FAQ – our relationship with a client does not just end when we send the report, we are there to provide and assist with any explanation required and would be willing if needed to explain matters to a client at a meeting especially if online on Teams or Zoom. Our aim at Sanderson Weatherall is to provide clients with the help they need to make informed decisions and for us to maintain an on-going client/surveyor relationship beyond the single instruction.
Whilst our survey reports are based on a template, these are not “cast in stone” and are designed to be flexible and adaptable, allowing the surveyor to amend to suit both the property being surveyed and a client’s specific requirements. The reports provided therefore have similar appearance and layout but beyond that reports are individual and specific for a client and the property. This ensures that clients receive reports tailored to their requirements. In addition, there is the Sanderson Weatherall mindset – where each client and each instruction is treated as individual and a personal relationship established. Sanderson Weatherall is a partnership and operates as one and this extends to seeing clients as part of that partnership. So reports are not produced as if on a conveyor belt and this is one of the ways our reports are different from a standard survey provider.
Whilst our condition surveys or building surveys can provide useful information about the construction of a property and the defects identified at the time of the survey inspection will assist in identifying the extent of any work required especially in the short and medium term, these types of survey are not able to provide a maintenance strategy. Instead, clients requiring maintenance planning would be best to commission a Planned Preventative Maintenance Schedule and Report (PPM). This would also involve an inspection of the property but would differ from a condition survey or building survey and instead create a schedule identifying elements of the property noting the maintenance work likely required say over a 5 year or 10-year period. This schedule could also give guidance of budget costs on a year-by-year basis together with an assessment of priority. The building surveyors at Sanderson Weatherall who carry out PPM inspections and reports would be able to assist clients in developing and implementing a maintenance strategy.
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