Schedule of Condition - Loft Space
Most surveyors dread them, those long ago closed-down projects that rise up during the busy work week with a vengeance. Usually, it is in the form of an email from an adjoining owner indignantly claiming damages caused as a result of works to the party wall. Chimney breast supported on gallows brackets Generally speaking, the smaller the amount of alleged reported damage the more potentially troublesome this can be for the surveyor whose job it is to trawl through his schedule of conditions and pictures in the valiant hope that he has sufficient records on which to entertain or reject the claim. With larger claims for damages it is much more likely the surveyor has sufficient records to show that the badly cracked wall reported was either already noted at the time the schedule was undertaken or was not and is therefore a new development resulting from the works potentially. But where the surveyor neglects to bring along a ladder to the schedule of condition in ...