Defect analysis for buildings in Bath, Bristol & beyond
Do you have a problem with your property? Western Building Consultants are RICS & CABE approved surveyors an engineers that are building fabric experts, who can successfully diagnose the issues with your property. We use our Chartered Surveyors and Chartered Building Engineers to examine sick buildings helping you to repair and restore your buildings to their former glory.
How does single fault diagnosis differ from a full building survey?
Single fault diagnosis looks specifically at a defined issue where a building is failing and uses building pathology techniques to determine the cause of the defects and the appropriate remediation techniques to restore it to working order. Building surveys tend to look at the whole of a building give a snap shot of the overall condition and likely issues at hand before purchasing it. Single fault diagnosis is usually used where the owner or occupier of the building wants specific advice about how to maintain or repair a certain area of the building.
The RICS defines building pathology “how the structure and materials of a building relate to its environment, its occupants and the way the building is used, so as to develop a better understanding of building failures”
How do we appoint you to carryout a single fault defect diagnosis survey?
Please call one of our offices to book in a survey, our staff will ask you a few questions about the issues at hand and will arrange for the surveyor to visit your property. Unlike building surveys a single fault defect analysis will be charged at an hourly rate due to the fact that some defects are easy to diagnose and other may take several visits and intrusive inspections.
Why is it a good idea to commission a defect report and analysis?
Quite simply defects including damp are very often misdiagnosed, this can result in you carrying out expensive remedial work for the issue to return. It is really important to make sure the defect is understood holistically and the works being specified do not just cover up an underlying issue. Western building consultants can add value by ensuring that the cause and defect are properly addressed.
I’m nervous about instructing a contractor to carry out the work can you help?
We certainly can, we can carry out the tendering process for you and appoint a contractor under a JCT minor works contract, managing all of the process of appointment and inspection of the works for you, Including sign off of stage payments giving you protection from rouge traders.
An expert has looked at the defect issues and specified their products to be used should I be worried?
Unfortunately the defect remedy market such as damp proofing contractors and other specialist repair companies are littered with bad advice. The advice given is usually not independent and is aimed at you taking up their product or service, . The advice you receive from a Western Building Consultants Chartered Surveyor or Building Engineer will be neutral and will seek to tackle the cause and not just the symptoms of the problem. It can even save you money where expensive rectification measures such as damp proof courses can be avoided in some cases, with proper prevention measures. It is important to remember that many defects are often caused by more than one issue combining to create an issue and that covering them up will only result in further issues later on.
Call Western Building Consultants today on 01225789307 to arrange a site visit and expert defect analysis.
Stunning Architectural Barn Conversions in Bath, Wiltshire, Mendips, South Gloucestershire & Surrounding Areas.
Are you looking to get planning permission, Listed Building consent or Project administration for a barn conversion in Bath or the South West?
Western Building consultants have a wealth of knowledge and experience providing comprehensive architectural designs and surveying services for rural barn conversions, in Bath and the South West.
Our conservation experts including chartered architects, surveyors and building engineers can help you design your dream home, Business premises or development. Utilising our key surveying skills we have experience in bringing the most agricultural of barns into usage, including the conversion of more modern barn constructions such as portal framed structures and concrete block buildings.
We have worked on numerous Listed barn conversions and can help navigate the planning and listed building frameworks, to help you achieve the reuse of agricultural buildings.
Looking to extend or remodel your home in Bath or the surrounding areas?
Western Building Consultants expertise has been developed from years of designing extensions and remodelling buildings for its clients in Bath and surrounding areas. We have produced extensions in both traditional rural and contemporary designs.
At Western we have a unique approach, we can usually handle all professional services in house including- Measured Surveys, Architectural Designs, Structural Steel Design, Planning, Building Control, Party Wall Act, Wessex Water approval, CDM Principal Designer and Interior Design…
What does this mean for me?
Quite simply, by offering all of these services in house we reduce the stress and cost of going out to separate consultants, adding real value to our design process compared to our competitors.
How can you offer such an array of services?
From our Bath office, we structure our business as a multi-disciplinary practice and employ Architects, Architectural technologists, Building Engineers, Interior Designers and Building Surveyors.
What Type of projects do you work on?
Our projects range from simple loft conversions or extensions to total remodelling.
We work with all types of building old and new including listed buildings in Bath and can produce designs to suit all budgets. we mould our services to meet your needs.
We have vast experience with Local Planning Authorities such as Bath & North East Somerset Council. 98% of our residential extension applications were approved in 2014.
We are regulated by CIAT & the RICS. We are also members of the trading standards scheme BUY WITH CONFIDENCE.
I have enjoyed working with Western Building Consultants on a complicated project for about 4 years now. During that time they have without fail given me a high level of customer service, being welcoming, responsive and competent.
As a customer I particularly appreciate that WBC are value for money. They also stick to their quotes and don’t add a lot of extras. Help and advice is always forthcoming generally at no extra charge.
Thank you so much for all your advice today. That was so very helpful, not only with the structure of the property but especially with your comments about the whole set up. I can see that we were within a gnat’s whisker of entering a complete can of worms… Thank you so much for saving us from making a stupid mistake.
Thanks to you both your help in this matter – you were both extremely efficient and accommodating (more than I can say about other companies I contacted).
Your professionalism has been invaluable, thank you.
Thank you for your extremely comprehensive report. It will be of immense help when deciding on the works we would like to carry out on the property. We have decided to take your advice and move into the property and live in it for a while to assess our requirements.
Thank you for your prompt service, could not have asked or expected more. I note your comments and in an ideal world everything would have been 1.
Will not hesitate to recommend you, and will make a point of letting the estate agent know this too.
I just wanted to say thank you very much for your thorough and clear report. It is written in an informative and jargon free way which has made a pretty hefty document ultimately digestible and easy to understand.
Hello Kerry, Many thanks for the report and invoice receipt.
Please pass on my thanks to Paul for the survey. In my working life, I read many stock survey reports – I work with social housing providers to set up their asset management strategies – and this was one of the clearest and most comprehensive I’ve seen.
Dear Paul, Thank you so much for your fast response and the detail in your report is very very good and greatly appreciated. Thank you for your efforts.
Many thanks for your swift and thorough return of this report, we so appreciate you getting this back to us on such a tight turn around this week, and on the first read it seems extremely clear and comprehensive.
Hi Kerry / Paul, Thanks for sending the survey across.
I’d also like to thank you for your excellent service and professionalism. I considered many surveyors before choosing to proceed with you and it’s clear that I made the right choice. I won’t hesitate to recommend you to family, friends and colleagues in the future.
“We have commissioned three building surveys from WBC until we found the house that was right for us and all thanks to you”
I never expected so much detail, the report was really great and there were things I never even considered, even being in the construction trade
The report was brilliant and went into so much detail, having had reports from other surveyors in the past this report was far superior
“Highly recommended. Good customer service over the phone and by email. Very quick: from the initial phone call booking a site visit to me receiving the calculations took only 8 days.”
“We used James Dean …Western Building Consultants as an architect. Very good”
“Good surveyors & structural engineers that we used were www.westernbuildingconsultants.com
We were really happy with them, they came highly recommended by several people”
“Excellent service and help from the initial design/planning stage through to the end of all works”
“I can recommend Western Building Consultants. They are great on structural calculations, advice and technical drawings to whatever extent you want. We used them for advice and calcs for taking out our main load bearing wall downstairs. They were recommended several times over when we started looking.”
“Superb, professional, efficient, friendly, positive”
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