Welcome to Peter Barry’s blog posts. You’ll find a range of topics focussing on issues that are important to our clients where we try to answer the questions that we regularly get asked.
As a result of the extreme weather over recent weeks I’ve taken a couple of calls from owners who have experienced dampness penetrating through solid walls as a result of driving rain. You’d think that a 215mm thick solid brick wall would provide a sufficient barrier to rain but often defects will arise which means that’s not the case. When investigating such a scenario the first step is ...
As a result of the extreme weather over recent weeks I’ve taken a couple of calls from owners who have experienced ...
We prepare several fee proposals for party wall services every week. Building owners preparing to undertake works like the ...
In normal circumstances our clients will have agreed to purchase a property at a set price prior to instructing us to ...
Thursday evening’s collapse of a section of the ceiling at the Apollo Theatre in London brought in to sharp focus the need ...
I’ve had to prepare a couple of valuations recently for owners that wanted to either buy or sell a roof space. The most ...
We’re now 6 weeks in to phase 1 of the work and I’d estimate that we’ve fallen a couple of weeks behind the ...
We’re now a little over halfway through phase 1 of our barn refurbishment. The structure of the barn is long and narrow so it divides quite neatly in to 2 parts with a sound and dust proof screen in the middle. Phase 1, the smaller half of the barn, is programmed to take 9 weeks following which we swap halves with the builders and work continues for a further 14 weeks. Doing the work in 2 ...
We’re now a little over halfway through phase 1 of our barn refurbishment. The structure of the barn is long and narrow so ...
3 Chartered Surveyors were set a challenge by their boss to increase fee income in the year ahead by 10%. The building ...
As you can see from the picture below, work is now well underway on the refurbishment of our barn. The lower part of that ...
Following a public consultation and weeks of political wrangling temporary changes to the Permitted Development rules came ...