Investing in a home is a substantial commitment, making a thorough Residential Building Survey essential. In Gloucestershire, this survey can uncover any necessary pre-purchase work. The survey type depends on your information needs and the property’s age.
A homebuyer survey delivers a detailed assessment of property defects, conditions, and required repairs, adhering to RICS standards. This type of survey is best suited for relatively modern properties constructed after the 1950s, providing comprehensive coverage in a condensed format compared to a full building survey.
A property’s valuation communicates its worth to the lender, typically conducted by your mortgage provider during financing. We also offer rebuild valuations for insurance purposes.
For those purchasing a commercial property, a building survey provides a detailed report on its condition. This report helps identify current issues, necessary repairs, and potential future concerns. It also outlines the building’s materials and highlights any special considerations due to its history. This survey can aid negotiations for a better deal during the purchase.
Essential for leaseholders responsible for building upkeep, a planned maintenance report assists in planning repairs, and ensuring smooth business operations. It helps predict future repair costs, preventing unexpected expenses when maintaining the property’s condition.
Especially crucial for leases, a condition report describes and photographs the building’s condition at the lease commencement, serving as a reference point in case of later disputes. A detailed report can prevent disagreements and save costs.
Dilapidations focus on maintaining the leased property’s condition. Professional advice is crucial for both tenants and landlords to ensure fairness and accuracy, covering repairs, decorating, meeting legal requirements, damage claims, and standards for property return at lease end.
If you are a landlord or tenant in Gloucestershire or surrounding areas and need to discuss a dilapidation case, get in touch to explore how we can assist.
We conduct measurements for residential and commercial properties, creating accurate drawings depicting their structures. Our advanced technology ensures precision; this service is available in Gloucestershire and beyond.
We craft plans meeting Land Registry requirements for solicitors and legal documents. If you need a plan for your lease or property sale, we collaborate closely with your solicitor or legal advisor to ensure accuracy.
As-built surveys are integral to the contractor handover process, providing end-users with information on final dimensions, safety risks, maintenance, and service routes. Using Leica laser equipment, we measure your site, cross-referencing it with 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 possess the expertise to deliver precise and comprehensive surveys and lease plans. Our track record includes collaborations with local solicitors such as Wards Solicitors, Thrings, and Royds Withy King on numerous properties in the South West.
Whether you’re acquiring property, managing a lease, or involved in a construction project in Gloucestershire or beyond, contact 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.
Merlin House
No 1 Langstone Business Park,
Priory Drive
01633982588
Commerce Park, Unit R17, Marshall Way
01373488566
Western House,
2 Rush Hill
01225789307
Sophia House,
28 Cathedral Road
02922679366
Kingston House,
Lydiard Fields
01793234516
Studio 1a,
31 Berkeley Square
0117 3294290
Unit 2, Byre Workshops, Winterbourne Court Farm Barn, Church Lane, Winterbourne
0117 3294290
