Our highly acclaimed Bath building surveyors have extensive experience in residential and commercial property surveying. We offer a range of services including valuations, surveys of historic Bath properties, and expert advice on listed building consent and dilapidated claims. Our team is well-equipped to address your specific needs and can provide comprehensive solutions for property assessments and planning.
If you’re planning to purchase a property and are looking for a surveyor in Bath, you’re in safe hands with Western Building Consultants. Our RICS certified surveyors can conduct a thorough Residential Building Survey to reveal any necessary pre-purchase work and ensure a smooth home-buying process. Taking into account your property’s age and the type of information you need, we can help you select the best type of survey to suit your requirements.
We also offer home buyer surveys, which provide a detailed assessment of property defects, conditions, and necessary repairs. These reports adhere to RICS standards and offer comprehensive coverage, albeit in a condensed format compared to a full building survey. Typically, this type of survey is best suited for relatively modern properties constructed after the 1950s.
A property’s valuation informs the lender of its worth, typically conducted by your mortgage provider when financing your purchase. Additionally, we can offer rebuild valuations for insurance purposes.
If you’re buying a commercial property in Bath, a building survey will give you a detailed report on its condition. This report helps you understand any problems, what needs fixing now, and what might need attention in the future. It also tells you what materials the building is made from and if there are any special considerations because of its history. This survey can help you negotiate a better deal when buying.
If you have a lease that says you need to look after the building, a planned maintenance report is essential. It helps you plan for repairs and keeps your business running smoothly. It also helps you predict how much you’ll need to spend on repairs in the future. This helps you to avoid unexpected costs and keeps your property in good shape.
A condition report is an important document, especially for leases. It describes and photographs the condition of the building when you start your lease. This is your reference point if there are any damage disputes later on. A detailed report can save you money by preventing disagreements.
Dilapidations are about keeping your leased property in good shape. Both tenants and landlords need professional advice to make sure everything is fair and accurate. Dilapidations often come up when a lease is ending, and they cover things like repairs, decorating, meeting legal requirements, damage claims and standards when it comes to the return of a property when a lease ends.
If you are a landlord or tenant in Bath or the surrounding areas and need to discuss a dilapidation case, please give Western Building Consultants a call to discuss how we can help.
We measure residential and commercial properties and create drawings that show how they’re put together. Our advanced technology ensures that the measurements are accurate. We offer this service in Bath and beyond.
We create plans that meet the requirements of the Land Registry for solicitors and legal documents. If you need a plan to go with your lease or property sale, we can help. We work closely with your solicitor or legal advisor to make sure everything is correct.
As-built surveys are a crucial part of the contractor handover process, informing end-users about final dimensions, safety risks, maintenance, and service routes. Western uses Leica laser equipment to measure your site, cross-referencing it with your design drawings to create detailed as-built plans in AutoCAD.
As accredited members of RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) and CIAT (Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists), we have the expertise to deliver precise and comprehensive surveys and lease plans, with a track record of working alongside local solicitors such as Wards Solicitors, Thrings, and Royds Withy King on numerous properties in the South West.
Whether you’re buying property in Bath, maintaining a lease, or working on a construction project, get in touch with us today!
Being socially responsible and promoting excellent ethics is at the forefront of our business. Our staff are happy and content and this is shown through our positive approach to your project. We work to the highest professional standards as required by both the RICS and CIAT. You can rest assured that when you employ WBC you will be supporting an organisation that champions local, national and international projects through schemes such as FairTrade, Mentoring Plus and the Bath percent club. This is backed up by a rigorous Corporate Social Responsibility Policy. We sponsor many grass roots sports clubs such as Combe Down Rugby Club, Frome Park Bowls Club & Cardiff Harlequins.
We are realistic with timescales and honest about what you will receive. Most people underestimate the time involved with a building project, but we are upfront about what is involved and will be clear about how long a project might take. Throughout the project we will continue to update you about progress and will advise you if there will be a disruption in the timetable.
We have vast planning experience and are adaptable to most architectural styles and ages of buildings. We are perfectly able to adapt to the style of your property from contemporary to traditional, urban to rural. We have designed projects in most styles and can use our broad experience to help design the best solution for your property, using whatever construction technology best suits your needs. Whether you plan a modest alteration or something spectacular WBC can help you achieve your project goals.
We employ qualified professionals with a variety of skill sets and the latest training. many of our employees have specialist post graduate qualifications. We also train selected staff through university programmes and professional qualifications to ensure our clients get the best trained surveyors and up to date advice. You will receive a professional, comprehensive and cohesive consultation and guidance throughout the project, ensuring that your development is handled with a consultant level of knowledge.
We are here for you when you need us, with our survey to completion guarantee. You won’t be left alone, we will fit in wherever you need us in the project or guide you through the whole process. You will have the knowledge that someone is always at hand whatever level of service you need.
Whilst offering exceptional value for money we also bring a positive, approachable, pragmatic, realistic and well rounded attitude to your project. You will feel at ease discussing issues with your project, our pragmatic approach to design and refurbishment means that we can often deliver built in VALUE. One example of this is recognising where cost savings can be made in the design without compromising the overall scheme and offering a higher standard of technical specification over many of our competitors, this reduces the need for outside engineering input and ultimately saves you money in fees. We are grounded which means that we can deliver a build in a cost conscious manner in order to make sure our projects are buildable.
Where we do not have the in house skills to tackle an element of a project we are well networked locally to utilise outside consultants that we have built up relationships with over many years. You will get the best of local knowledge and be introduced to like minded trusted suppliers with excellent professional services.
We can provide the majority of services required for a small project in house, making us practically a one stop shop. Having most services in house means that we are often fully accountable for the professional services on your project, this ensures simplicity, communication and efficiency. By utilising a multi-disciplinary approach we are able to keep professional costs for the project extremely competitive and hassle free, essentially you only pay for one set of overheads.
We have unparalleled technical knowledge and produce comprehensive architectural designs and surveys. You will be getting market-leading technical advice that has been approached with imaginative problem-solving techniques. This helps us to identify potential problems with a build before they arise.
Our knowledge adds value, an example of this is that most architects do not provide any advice on the structure of a building during the building regulations approval stage, relying on a structural engineer to produce all work relating to the super structure. At Western Building Consultants we provide structural advice on many areas, such as timber design for floors and roofs, limiting the scope of the engineers work and saving you money.
Having a large team of surveyors means that your project is unlikely to be held up due to other circumstances, there will always be at least two surveyors familiar with the project therefore continuity and a personal service will be retained. On larger schemes a bigger team will be assembled with the required specialist knowledge to fully support your project.
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