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Inspection Flashcards

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What is the suggested 4 steps to an inspection?

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  1. Personal Safety
  2. Inspection of the Local area.
  3. External Inspection
  4. Internal inspection
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What to take on an inspection?

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  • Mobile phone.
  • Camera
  • measures
  • plans/files
  • PPE
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what consideration do you have of the area?

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  • Location/public transport /business viability.
    -Contamination/ environmental factors/ flooding/OHL.
  • Comps/local market conditions/active agents.
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What to check for external inspection?

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  • Method of constructions.
  • Repair and condition.
  • Parking/access/ loading
  • Boundaries
  • Date of building, (asking client, planning, build regs, land reg, architectural style.
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What to check for internal inspection?

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  • layout and spec
    -repair and condition
  • defects
  • services
  • statutory compliance, (asbestos, H&S, Equaity act 2010)
  • fittings
  • compliance
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Inspection Purposes (val & Agency) ?

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  • Valuation (valuation influencers), understand all the factors which can influence the valuation of the property such as location, tenure, condition, defects, etc
  • Agency (marketability issues), Consider the current condition of the buildings, repair issues, compliance, presentation of accommodation, marketability.
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foundations (4 common types)

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  1. Trench and strip - used for resi, for walls and closely spaced columns.
  2. Raft - slab foundation over the whole site to spread the load of the structure.
  3. Piled - long and slender reinforced concrete cylinders.
  4. Pad - under individual or group of columns so that the columns is spread.
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Brickwork construction types?

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  1. Solid Walls - one brick thick (min) with headers in.
    Cavity wall - two layers, metal
  2. Ties between, can be filled with insulation. EVIDENCE, Cavity tray, air brick or wheep hole.
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Bricks lay type

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stretchers - Length way
Header - Narrow way

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Efflorescence

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White marks of the brick from water reacting with the salt in the brick.

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Spalling

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When a brick starts to crumble because of thawing action.

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Shops fit out

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-new shops are steel or concrete frame
- Services capped off
-Concrete floor
- let as shell

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Office build styles?

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  • steel or concrete
  • steel frame have less columns, higher floor heights and are wider span
  • Check plans if in doubt
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Types of fit out for an office?

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Shell and core - only common parts are done (what we did)
Category A - basic finish of an office
Category B - complete specific works for the occupier
works for the occupies.

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15
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What are office floorplans and sizes based off?

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-Celluar offices are usually set out on a 1.5m grid plan.
- Normal offices usuall go for 7.5-9.25sqm per person.

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What factors do you look for on an inspection what will effect value? (Valuation)

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  • Material Condition.
  • Location
  • Tenure
  • Defects
  • Occupation
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What factors do you look for on an inspection what will effect value? (Agency)

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  • Repair
  • Maintaince
  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Flexibility of accommodation
  • Presentation
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18
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Regulations for PPE

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PPE at Work Regulations 2022

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Lone Working Policy

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  • Calendar is updated with address
  • Members of staff know what and when i am
  • Text in and out
  • Timescale
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Red Hall Farm Safety Hazards

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  • Delapodated buildings
  • Un fenced slurry lagoons
  • Exposed A roads
  • Livestock
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Red Hall Farm, What did you look out for your external inspection?

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  • Rough structural condition
  • Access
  • Condition
  • Build Style
  • Position
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22
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What brick work are on Traditional Barns?

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  • Solid wall
  • 1 brick thick
  • Headers brick pattern
23
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What do you look for in Brick Construction?

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Spalling - Damaged brick to the surface from freezing/thaw
Efflorscene - White marks from salt from water reaction

24
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1 Meadow View, What did the Deeds State and what did you advice?

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  • Stated that there was only a right to pass over the area.
  • Stated that they can only keep vehicles in the garage.
25
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1 Meadow View, whats un registered land? and act?

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  • not yet been registered under the 1925 land registration system.
  • Land registration act 2002
26
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Woodside business park, Whats the means of measurement for NIA?

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IMPS 3 - Offices (Agency & Vals)

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1 Meadow View, What elements of risk did you consider in the Valuation?

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  • No formal Maintance agreement
  • No Service Charge agreement or breakdown
  • No Legal Garden space
28
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1 Meadow View, Whats included in deeds?

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  • Grantors and Grantees details
  • Legal Boundaries
  • Restrictions on the land
  • Rights of way
  • Mortgages (Charges)
  • Pervious Owners
29
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Vine House, Whats a Bridging Loan?

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  • ‘Bridges the Gap’
  • Short term loan between repayments
  • High Risk
30
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Vine House, How did you check the Permitted plans on site?

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  • Used a Dispometer for internal measurements to get a GIA,
  • Made a record of the Developments layout and compared.
  • Measured the distance between the boundary and the dwelling, to check situation.
  • Driveway access.
  • Checked elevations
31
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Vine House, What areas did the borrower not comply with?

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  • Internal Footprint was large
  • Shape was not correct.
  • Situation within the development was not correct.
  • Condition stated exposed Brick Style but it was Cream rendered on site
32
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Vine House, Where did you get the approved plans from?

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  • Client
  • Diction Notice
33
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Inherent Defect vs Latent Defect?

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Inherent - defect in design or build
Latent - Hidden defect, that cant be found be a standard inspection

34
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4 steps when finding a defect?

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  1. Picture
  2. Source
  3. Inform client
  4. BS advice
35
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Comment causes of defects? (3)

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  • Water
  • Movement
  • Determination of materials
36
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RICS Guidance on Contamination?

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Contamination, the Environment and Sustainability, 2010 (3rd Edition)

37
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3 Phases of Contamination?

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  1. Review History (Desktop Based)
  2. Investigations with detail soil samples
  3. Remediation Report
38
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What advice do you give for contamination, Interms of a Val report?

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  1. Caveat report (Special assumption)
  2. Refer to specialist advice
  3. Deduct remediation costs from Value.
39
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Hazardous Materials?

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Materials that cause harm to health
- Asbestos
- Radon gas
- Lead pipes

40
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Deleterious Materials?

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Materials that can degrade with age.
Asbestos and Lead

41
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Disposal of water checks?

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  • Surface water run off into Water courses
  • Foul water from pipes
  • Compliant Septic tanks
42
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What does Japanese Knotweed look like?

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  • Purple/green hollow stemmed with green leaves
  • Banks will not lend if in the area.
  • White flower in spring
43
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RICS Guidance for Japanese Knotweed? and acts?

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Japanese Knotweed and residential property 2022

Wildlife and countryside act 1981

44
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Whats and offence to spread under the Wildfire and Countryside Act 1981?

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Japanese Knotweed

45
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What is the Measurement for NIA under in IPMS?

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IMPS: Office Buildings
-IMPS 3

46
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Legation for Asbestos?

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  • The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012
47
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Woodside, Why should the water Front units be let at a higher price?

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  • Small Parcels premiums, as more demand for low price thresholds
  • Views of Liverpool
  • Additional consumers from unit marketing.
48
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What is unregistered land?

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Land that hasn’t been registered under the 1925 land registration system.

49
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Types of defects

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  • Subsidence
  • Cracking
  • Water
  • Deterioration of materials
50
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What is asbestos?

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  • Building material used for insulation
  • lungs cancers
51
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WHERE MIGHT A RISK ARISE?

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  • asbesostos
  • Lone working
52
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Surveying Safety 2018, Principles?

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Site visits
Residential surveys
management of contracts
health and hygiene
workplace safety
fire safety
assessing hazards
personal responsibility

53
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What do you consider before an inspection?

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Signed TOB
Insurance
Risk assessments
Extent of inspection
Equipment

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