Woodward Chartered Surveyors invite all their customers who book and pay for their survey on line (we are one of the few surveyors to take credit card payments) to provide feedback on all aspects of their exerience.
Rising damp – does it exist?
In a recent case review Stephen Cornish MA BSc FRICS FFPWS challenged the conventional reporting style of surveyors and asked the question “Does rising damp actually exist?”.
Rotten floors, roof joists, window frames and even asthma are some of the extreme results of the silent house destroyer; condensation.
Preventing the spread of Japanese Knotweed is a legal obligation for landowners under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
The plant (Fallopia Japonica) is an alien species introduced to England around 1825 as an ornamental plant and cattle fodder. It is difficult and expensive to manage, but non-intervention is not really an option.
arly treatment of a new colony is quicker, cheaper and preferable to leaving it to become established and it can lie dormant underground for 20 years before re-growing.