Chartered Surveyors in Kent

Kent is a county of extremes for anyone inspecting buildings. In the space of forty miles you
move from Wealden clay that shrinks and swells with every dry summer, to the chalk of the North
Downs, to the shingle and reclaimed marshland of Romney and the Swale. Each brings its own defect
signature, and a surveyor who works the whole county learns to read them.

Where we work in Kent

We cover the whole county: Canterbury and the East Kent villages, the Thanet coast at Margate,
Broadstairs and Ramsgate, the Channel ports of Dover and Folkestone, Deal and Sandwich, the
Faversham and Swale creekside towns, Whitstable and Herne Bay, Ashford and the Weald, Maidstone
and the Medway Gap, Sittingbourne, and the Medway towns.

The defects Kent property throws up

• Clay shrinkage subsidence across the Weald and the Ashford basin, usually
  tree-related and usually seasonal. Distinguishing genuine progressive movement from historic
  settlement is the single most valuable judgement we make on a Kent building survey.
• Coastal exposure and salt attack on the Thanet, Deal and Folkestone
  seafronts — spalled render, corroded steel lintels, failed pointing on the weather elevation, and
  sash windows that have not had a decent maintenance cycle in twenty years.
• Solid-wall Victorian and Edwardian stock throughout the seaside towns, where
  retrofitted cavity or internal wall insulation has frequently created interstitial condensation
  and damp that gets misdiagnosed as rising damp.
• Non-standard construction — Kent has significant numbers of Airey, Cornish
  Unit and BISF houses, plus timber-frame and steel-frame estates, that mortgage lenders treat
  cautiously. We report on lendability, not just condition.
• Oast houses, barn conversions and listed farmhouses in the Weald and the
  Downs, where the interesting questions are usually about the roundel roof structure, the quality
  of the conversion, and whether the building regulations sign-off actually exists.

Kent surveys, valuations and party wall work

We provide RICS Home Survey Level 2 and Level 3 reports, structural appraisals, damp and timber
surveys, Red Book valuations for probate, tax, matrimonial and shared ownership purposes,
commercial building surveys and dilapidations, and party wall services under the Party Wall etc.
Act 1996. All reports are produced by RICS regulated surveyors and delivered in plain English.

Services we provide in Kent

• RICS Home Survey Level 2 (Homebuyer Survey) and Level 3 (Building Survey)
• Structural surveys, specific defect reports and crack and movement assessment
• Damp, timber and condensation investigations
• Red Book valuations for probate, capital gains tax, matrimonial and shared ownership
• Party wall notices, awards and disputes under the Party Wall etc. Act 1996
• Schedules of condition, dilapidations and commercial building surveys
• New build snagging inspections and professional consultant’s certificates

Kent survey questions we are asked most

Do you cover the whole of Kent?

Yes, from the Medway towns and Maidstone across to Thanet, Dover and Folkestone, and south into the Weald. Travel is included in the fixed fee we quote you; we do not add mileage afterwards.

Are your surveyors RICS regulated?

Every report is produced by an RICS regulated chartered surveyor, and every formal valuation by a valuer on the RICS Register of Valuers. We confirm the surveyor’s name and qualifications when we send your quotation.

Book a surveyor in Kent. Call us or use the enquiry form below and we will come back to you the same working day with a fixed fee and the earliest available inspection date.