Inspection Flashcards
- What are you looking for in an inspection?
a. Surrounding area consideration (amenities, transport, hazards etc)
b. External inspection
c. Internal inspection
- What internal features do you note?
a. Layout
b. Spec
c. Defects
d. Repairs and condition
e. Fixtures and fittings
f. Statutory compliance
- What external features do you note?
a. Construction
b. Condition and repairs
c. Parking and access
d. Roof and windows
e. Defects
- What preparation do you need to do before inspecting?
a. Transport options
b. Is PPE required?
c. Is there any potential hazards
d. Am I meeting someone?
- Tell me about surveying safely?
a. Safe person’ concept – Individuals assume responsibility for their own and colleagues health and safety at work
b. Assessing and managing hazards and risks
c. Workplace health and safety
d. Occupational hygiene and health – hazardous substances, work related stress, violence, mental health etc
e. Visiting premises or sites – assess hazards and risks before visiting
f. Fire safety
g. Procurement and management of contractors – check they are competent and provide relevant info about the property to them before they commence work
- Why did you inspect a 10% sample?
a. Scope of our instructions
b. Portfolios such as this are too large to inspect 100% internally
- How do you age a property?
a. Ask client
b. Research planning history
c. Research architects plans
d. Research local records
e. Tell by architectural style
f. Some buildings have it on their external walls
g. Ask residents
- What hazards might you see on an inspection?
a. Japanese Knotweed
b. Contamination
c. Squatters
d. Machinery
e. Even just aggressive tenants
- What do you do if you see squatters?
a. Abort inspection
b. Inform client
c. Squatting is illegal so tell them to get legal advice
- What did you take with you?
a. Camera (phone)
b. Fully charged phone to take notes
c. PPE – hard hat, steel toe cap boots and high vis
d. Plans provided by client
- What fire safety questions did you ask?
a. Do these units have external cladding or balconies or curtain wall glazing?
b. How many floors is the building?
c. What type of cladding is there, if it is present?
d. Do you have up to date FRAs?
e. Please provide EWS1 grades and copies of the form
f. What are the cost estimates if remedials are required?
- What are latent defects?
a. A defect discovered through a thorough inspection
- What are inherent defects?
a. A defect in design or material that has always been present
- For what purposes would you inspect a property?
a. Valuation (Valuation influencers)
b. Property management (policing the lease)
c. Agency (marketability issues)
- What are FOUR common forms of foundation (the choice depends on ground conditions and building loadings required):
a. Trench or strip footings – used for residential dwellings, for walls and closely spaced columns
b. Raft – a slab foundation over the whole site to spread the load for lightweight structures such as for made up/remediated land and sandy soil conditions
c. Piles – Long and slender reinforced concrete cylinders in the ground used when ground conditions are less good for load-bearing
d. Pad – Slab foundation system under individual or groups of columns so that the column load is spread evenly
- What is efflorescence?
a. White marks caused by hydroscopic salts in the brick work
b. Forms when water reacts with natural salts that are within the construction material and mortar
c. The water dissolves the salts, which are carried out and deposited onto the surface by evaporation when air meets the surface of the wall