Inspection Flashcards
what is the four step process when carrying out an inspection?
1 - Consider your personal safety
2 - inspection of the local area
3 - External inspection
4 - Internal inspection
name some of the equipment used on an inspection
1 - Mobile phone
2 - Tape measure/ laser
3- File, plans and other supporting documents
4 - PPE - flourescent Jacket, steel toe capped boots, ear defenders, goggles and hard hat.
5 - pen and paper/dictator phone/ ipad
what considerations should you when inspecting the immediate area
1 - location, local facilities, Public transport, business vibrancy
2 - Contamination, flood risk, power lines and substations
3 - Comparable evidence, agents boards, local market conditions
what should be looking for when inspecting the external of a property
1 - Method of construction
2 - repair and condition of the exterior
3 - Car parking/ access/loading arrangements
4 - Defects/ structural movement
5 - Check Site boundary OS map or title plan
6 - Date the building - asking the client/ researching date of planning consent, land registry/ local historical records,
what should be looking for when inspecting the internal of a property
1 - layout and specification - flexibility and obsolescence
2 - Repair and maintenance
3 - Defects
4 - Services - age and condition
5 - Statutory compliance - asbestos, building regulation, health and safety, equality act
6 - fixture and fittings
7 - compliance with lease obligations
What are the difference inspection purposes
1 - Valuation - Understand all factors which can influence the valuation such as location, tenure, form of construction, defects, current condition, occupation details
2 - Property management - Check they are lease compliant, statutory compliance, state of the building, repair and maintenance issues, requirements for repair and redecoration
3 - Agency - Consider the current condition of the building, repair and maintenance issues, statutory compliance, services, marketability
what are the four types of foundations
1 - Strip - Generally used for residential
2 - Raft - A slab foundation over the whole site to spread the load for sandy soil conditions
3 - Piled - for deeper strata when less good load bearing ground conditions.
4 - Pad - A slab foundation under individual or groups of columns so the column load is spread evenly
What is the name for the faces of a Brick
1 - Stretcher - long side of the brick
2 - headers - short end of the brick
What are the types of fit out
1 - Shell and core - Where the common areas of the building are completed and the office floor areas are left as a shell for fit out by the occupier.
2 - Category A - Grade A specification as above.
3 - Category B - Complete fit out to occupiers specification
When you identify a defect what are the four steps
1 - Take photographs
2 - try to establish the cause of the damage whilst on site.
3 - Inform the client of your investigations
4 - recommend specialist advice from a building surveyor or in the case of movement a structural engineer.
What are the three common defects
1 - Movement
2 - Water
3 - defective/ deterioration of the materials.
what are some of the common building defects
Period residential/office/shops - Dry rot, wet rot, tile slippage/ death watch beetle, damp and water ingress.
modern industrial - roof leaks around roof lights, damaged cladding, cut edge corrosion, guttering.
Modern office - damp, water damage from burst pipes, structural movement, poor mortar joints.
what is the legislation for contamination
Environmental protection Act 1990
What are the 3 phases when investigating the contamination
1 - Review the history with desktop study and inspection
2 - Investigation to identify the nature and extent of the contamination
3 - remediation report.
Name 3 Hazardous materials
1 - Asbestos
2 - Lead piping
3 - Radon gas
