One inspector covering inventories, voids, quality inspection, condition surveys and measured areas — instructed job by job, priced per report, with no retainer and no minimum volume.
Inspection work is awkward to staff. It arrives in bursts, it is the first thing to slip when the office is busy, and the reports that come out of it are only worth anything if they were produced to a consistent standard by someone with no interest in the outcome.
Instructing an independent inspector solves both problems at once: the capacity is there when the work lands, and the report carries the weight that an in-house one cannot, because it did not come from a party to the dispute.
A firm that inspects and also carries out the remedial work has an interest in what the report says. An installer photographing his own work only ever photographs what suits him. This practice has no installation arm and no remedial supply chain, so there is nothing to upsell and no stake in the outcome. The finding is the product.
Photographed, time-stamped schedules of condition — independent of both landlord and tenant, which is what gives a report weight if a deposit is disputed.
Read more →Independent inspection of empty and returning properties against your own void or lettable standard, element by element.
Read more →Verification of workmanship and materials against drawings, specification and manufacturer requirements — by someone who has no involvement in the work being inspected.
Read more →Damp, cracking, condensation, mould, cold bridging, water ingress and failed detailing — investigated properly and reported with the reasoning shown.
Read more →Floor areas measured on site and reported on the recognised bases — Gross External Area, Gross Internal Area and Net Internal Area — with a measured plan.
Read more →Thirty years in construction — around twenty in the specialist interior trades and more than ten managing sites, packages and contracts, with direct responsibility for inspecting subcontracted work against specification and signing it off. The inspection is carried out by someone who has built the assemblies as well as inspected them.
I'll tell you what it costs and when I can be there. No call-out charge and no travel charge within the coverage area.