Investing in a home is a significant decision, and having a comprehensive Residential Building Survey in Reading is crucial. This survey unveils any necessary pre-purchase work required. Depending on your information needs and the property’s age, we offer different types of surveys.
A homebuyer survey provides a detailed assessment of property defects, conditions, and necessary repairs. Adhering to RICS standards, our reports offer comprehensive coverage, especially suited for relatively modern properties constructed after the 1950s.
A property valuation, conducted by your mortgage provider, informs the lender of its worth during your purchase financing. Additionally, we provide rebuild valuations for insurance purposes.
For those acquiring commercial properties, our building survey delivers a detailed report on its condition. This report helps you to understand current issues, necessary fixes, and potential future concerns. It also provides insights into the building’s materials and any historical considerations, assisting in negotiating favourable deals.
For leased properties, a planned maintenance report is crucial for effective building management. It aids in planning repairs, ensuring seamless business operations, and predicting future repair expenses, thereby avoiding unexpected costs.
Especially beneficial for leases, a condition report details and photographs the building’s condition at the lease’s commencement, serving as a reference point in case of later disputes and potential cost savings.
Dilapidations focus on maintaining leased properties in good condition. Both tenants and landlords benefit from professional advice to ensure fairness and accuracy. These issues commonly arise when leases conclude, covering aspects like repairs, decorating, legal compliance, damage claims, and property standards at lease termination.
For landlords or tenants in Reading and the surrounding areas needing assistance with dilapidation cases, reach out to Western Building Consultants for a discussion on how we can provide support.
We accurately measure residential and commercial properties, creating precise drawings that illustrate their construction. Our advanced technology ensures accuracy, and this service is available in Reading and beyond.
We generate plans meeting Land Registry requirements for solicitors and legal documents. If you require a plan for your lease or property sale, our collaboration with your solicitor or legal advisor ensures accuracy and compliance.
Integral to the contractor handover process, as-built surveys inform end-users about final dimensions, safety risks, maintenance, and service routes. Utilising Leica laser equipment, Western cross-references site measurements with design drawings to craft detailed as-built plans in AutoCAD.
As proud 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 on numerous properties across the Southeast.
Whether you’re purchasing property, managing a lease, or engaged in a construction project in Reading 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
