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Stone gable with brick dressings and a casement window, seen during a building survey

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A selection of the building surveys we have carried out, from timber-framed cottages to flint farmhouses, and the defects we found along the way.

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Decayed render and timber beam above a cottage doorway, photo 1 of 2

Outbuilding roof with slipped and patched slates and mismatched ridge tiles, photo 2 of 2

Aldbury

Building survey

Drone view of a rendered chimney stack and roof slopes, photo 1 of 4

Drone view of a cracked rendered chimney stack with plants rooting in the brick capping, photo 2 of 4

Stone elevation with open joints and a decayed timber lintel below the eaves, photo 3 of 4

Chimney brickwork with eroded joints and a cracked, displaced flaunching, photo 4 of 4

Ashton

Building survey

Vertical crack running through a brick parapet wall, photo 1 of 2

Stepped crack running through the brickwork below the gutter, photo 2 of 2

Aylesbury

Building survey

Slate roof slope beside a glazed roof light, photo 1 of 3

Flat roof with domed roof lights and debris, photo 2 of 3

Drone view of slate and clay tile roofs with lead valleys and a worn ridge, photo 3 of 3

Berkhamsted

Building survey

Damp-stained and blown plaster in a room corner, photo 1 of 6

Painted brick wall with spalled and flaking paint, photo 2 of 6

Rot and fungal strands along the underside of a beam, photo 3 of 6

Bracket fungus growing from a decayed dormer casement, photo 4 of 6

Rotten sole plate at the base of the timber frame, photo 5 of 6

Fungal growth where a brace meets a beam, with decayed timber, photo 6 of 6

Bierton

Building survey

Cracked ceiling plaster above a bay window

Great Missenden

Building survey

Drone view of a chimney and lead flashing on a thatched roof, photo 1 of 2

Worn thatch ridge with exposed liggers, moss growth and a lead chimney apron, photo 2 of 2

Haddenham

Building survey

Moss-covered roof slope below a timber-framed wall, photo 1 of 2

Blocked valley gutter full of leaves and moss between old clay tile roofs, photo 2 of 2

Hertfordshire

Building survey

Cracked render above a damp-proof course beside steps, photo 1 of 2

Skirting board with flaking paint, staining and decayed timber beneath, photo 2 of 2

Kings Langley

Building survey

Probing badly decayed timber at the base of a post above the sill, photo 1 of 3

Furniture beetle exit holes across a black-painted timber, photo 2 of 3

Fresh bore dust from active beetle on a timber beam, photo 3 of 3

Leighton Buzzard

Building survey

Roof timbers and purlin inside a loft space, photo 1 of 2

Roof timbers with a sistered ceiling tie fixed with metal straps beside the chimney breast, photo 2 of 2

Long Marston

Building survey

Front elevation with patches of render removed, photo 1 of 4

Gutter and downpipe at the junction of two roofs, photo 2 of 4

Chimney stack with eroded mortar, patched lead flashings and moss on a flat roof, photo 3 of 4

Rendered wall with bulging and flaking patches above a black plinth, photo 4 of 4

Marsworth

Building survey

Drone view of a clay tiled roof with chimney and dormers, photo 1 of 1

Mentmore

Building survey

Vertical crack running through flint and brick walling beside a timber door, photo 1 of 4

Flint and brick cobble wall with an old cement patch and eroded mortar, photo 2 of 4

Flint and red brick farmhouse with a clay pantile roof, dormer and tiled porch, photo 3 of 4

Lifted cast iron gully grate over a silted, blocked drain chamber, photo 4 of 4

Norfolk

Building survey

Sagging timber canopy and failing verge between stone and brick gables, photo 1 of 4

Newel post cap hollowed out by wet rot, beside a moisture meter, photo 2 of 4

Ceiling beam riddled with woodworm exit holes, photo 3 of 4

Stone gable with brick dressings, open joints and cement patching below the window, photo 4 of 4

Oxfordshire

Building survey

Brick wall and rendered plinth below a shuttered window, photo 1 of 4

Close-up of weathered, eroded brickwork, photo 2 of 4

Brick outbuilding gable with a decayed timber loading door and peeling render on the boundary wall, photo 3 of 4

Blocked valley gutter overgrown with weeds beside a corrugated roof, photo 4 of 4

Tring

Building survey

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