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I'm not an expert but I'd tend to agree. There are simply too many things which can't easily be inspected without causing damage. We paid over £1000 in two dif

I'm not an expert but I'd tend to agree. There are simply too many things which can't easily be inspected without causing damage. We paid over £1000 in two different inspections when we purchased our house. Since moving in I've discovered that the entire extension to the house was built without lintels, electrical work which is not even close to complient and brickwork which is little more than rubble. The structural engineer said he was unable to determine whether the lintels were sufficient (because they were hidden behind plaster and face bricks) and he said that there is some evidence of electrical rewiring but that we should commission a report into that.

TheOtherHobbes 8y ago
IMO house surveys in the UK are a joke and surveyors are a wildly overpaid joke profession. A typical survey, even a "full" survey, is 90% disclaimer. The remaining 10% is often obvious to anyone with working eyeballs. If you want a useful opinion hire an experienced builder to assess the property - perhaps under the pretext of costing possible renovations. When I was selling my mother's house a few years ago, a builder who viewed it instantly spotted all the problems that professional surveyors either missed or couldn't be bothered to mention.