Whether you’re buying in Purley, refurbishing in Addiscombe or managing a converted block near East Croydon, the survey is the document everything else stands on: the legal duty, the renovation programme, the removal quote, the sale.
There are two core survey types and they are not interchangeable: management surveys locate materials during occupation; refurbishment surveys inspect everywhere your works will reach. We’ll tell you which one applies.
BOHS P402-qualified surveyors on every instruction
Every sample analysed at a UKAS-accredited laboratory
From scoping the right survey type to delivering a report your solicitor, lender and contractor can all act on; five working days, fixed fee.
We establish what you’re doing; occupying, refurbishing, buying or demolishing, and confirm the survey type, areas and access needed before quoting.
Systematic inspection room by room (intrusive where the type demands), with samples taken discreetly and photographed in situ.
Bulk samples analysed at a UKAS-accredited laboratory; certificates appended to your report, not summarised away.
Findings, material and priority risk scores, photographs, locations and clear recommendations; written for humans, formatted for solicitors, lenders and contractors.
The correct survey for the job, never the most expensive one we can justify.
Plain-English findings with the technical rigour underneath.
Transaction and programme deadlines respected, five-day standard turnaround.
Where removal follows, the survey flows into a fixed removal price with no re-inspection fee.
FAQS
A management survey is non-intrusive: it locates and condition-scores materials so a building can be occupied and managed safely. A refurbishment/demolition survey is intrusive: it opens up voids, risers and structures wherever your works will reach, because builders can’t be protected from what nobody looks for. Doing work off a management survey is the classic and unlawful shortcut.
There’s no blanket legal duty on private homeowners, but there are three moments it becomes essential: before refurbishment of a pre-2000 home, when buying one, and when something suspicious turns up. Landlords and managers of communal areas carry firmer duties; if that’s you, a management survey isn’t optional.
It scales with property size, survey type and access; a flat’s management survey and a warehouse R&D survey are different animals. Scope is confirmed free, the fee is fixed in writing, and there’s no re-survey charge if removal work follows with us.
Survey slots are typically available within days across CR postcodes, and written reports land within five working days of the visit. Chasing a completion date or a contractor start? Tell us the deadline and we’ll commit to it or say we can’t.
Management surveys are deliberately gentle; sampling is discreet and made good. Refurbishment surveys are intrusive by definition, but only within the areas your works affect, and we agree the opening-up approach with you first.
Usually nothing dramatic. Most findings are managed, not ripped out; the report tells you what’s there, what condition it’s in, and what actually needs action. Where removal is genuinely warranted, a fixed price follows within 48 hours and you already hold the paperwork to proceed.
Every inspected area with photographs, each identified or presumed material with location, extent and condition scores, appended UKAS lab certificates for sampled items, and prioritised recommendations in plain English; a document your solicitor, lender and contractor can all read without translation.
All three, daily; individual flats and their blocks’ communal parts, shops and offices in the centre, and houses of every era across the districts. The survey type flexes to the building; the reporting standard doesn’t.
Every CR postcode plus the bordering SE25, SE19 and SW16 streets, with same-week slots throughout. Deadline surveys; exchanges, contractor starts, audits, get priority booking.
Questions about a job or a quote? Email the team directly.
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Send us your postcode and a description of the material you’ve found. A surveyor will be with you the same week, and your fixed written price follows within 48 hours.
