Party wall surveyor recommendation needed

[schokoschnecke]

Hi

has anyone found a good party wall surveyor they would recommend? The house next door to ours is being extensively refurbished and developed with serious consequences for the party wall and I’d very much appreciate an independent, impartial opinion.

thanks

anna

[Charlie15]

I’ve recently used Chris and found him very helpful and responsive. He has a number of very good reviews on google too. Good luck:  

https://cscharteredsurveyors.com

 

[Smiley_blue_1234]

We used Geoff Adams at Anstey Horne for similar issues twice (either side of our house!). They were very helpful.

https://www.ansteyhorne.co.uk/about/team

[Sue]

This party wall surveyor group were very helpful when I was looking for someone

https://pyramusandthisbesociety.org/

(Great name!)

Their aims include to promote best professional practice in party wall surveying.

The person they recommended was excellent. I can't remember his name, but I will look it up.

Do make sure whoever you get is fully qualified. He told me that my neighbour's party wall surveyor wasn't.

Also, don't agree to share a surveyor. I did that once before (with different neighbours) and it became very awkward when there were problems, and embarrassing for the neighbours, who I got on well with.

The person having the work done has to pay for your surveyor.

Edited September 10 by Sue

[Moovart]

Make sure you use a chartered surveyor. 

Party wall surveyors need no actual surveying qualifications to set themselves up as a PWS.  You don't need RICS qualifications to be a member of Pyramus and Thisbe society.

When a PW agreement is straight forward then it's not a problem to have a unqualified PWS but if you run into structural problems you need a qualified surveyor as a PWS who fully understands buildings. 

[Sue]

8 minutes ago, Moovart said:

Make sure you use a chartered surveyor. 

Party wall surveyors need no actual surveying qualifications to set themselves up as a PWS.  You don't need RICS qualifications to be a member of Pyramus and Thisbe society.

When a PW agreement is straight forward then it's not a problem to have a unqualified PWS but if you run into structural problems you need a qualified surveyor as a PWS who fully understands buildings. 

The surveyor I had was Michael Cooper.

He is FRICS.

See the screenshot which has for some reason been inserted at the beginning of this post instead of the end!

He just happened to be the person I spoke to, he asked me what area I lived in and then said he covered East Dulwich.

So (I now recall) he recommended himself!

But I don't think I could have found anybody better.

 

 

Edited September 10 by Sue
Adding info

[Pugwash]

We have some worrying cracks in our kitchen extension wall and ceiling and I need to get these checked out. Contacted a Which Trusted Trader (Builders) and was advised that I would need a structural surveyor/ engineer to indicate the cause of  cracks before they could come and assess. They gave me a contact number of a firm called IDR Surveyors - left message on number given but yet to have a reply,

Anyone used a structural engineer recently?