Inspection L1 Flashcards
What do you take on an inspection?
Mobile Phone
Camera
Tape measure/laser
File, plans and other supporting documents
PPE
Pen and paper
What are the steps of inspection?
1) Consider your personal safety
2) Inspection of local area
3) External Inspection
4) Internal Inspection
What would you consider in the immediate local area?
Location
Local facilities
Public transport
Contamination
Environmental Hazards
Flooding
Comparable evidence
Local market conditions
Agents’ boards
What would you consider during an external inspection?
Method of construction
Repair and condition of the exterior
Car parking/access/loading arrangements
Defects
Check site boundaries with OS map / title plan
Ways to date the building including asking the client, researching the date of planning consent
What would you consider during an internal inspection?
Layout/specification
Repair and maintenance
Defects
Age/condition
Statutory compliance such as asbestos
Fixtures and fittings and improvements
Compliance with lease obligations
What are the different inspection purposes?
1) Valuation (valuation influences)
Understand all of the factors which can influence the valuation of a property including location, tenure, form of construction, defects etc.
2) Property management
If occupied, check the lease compliance, statutory compliance, state of the building, requirement for repairs/redecoration, user and details of the actual occupier
If unoccupied, check the statutory compliance, state of the building, repair and maintenance issues, security arrangements.
3) Agency
Consider the current condition of the building, repair and maintenance issues, statutory compliance, services, presentation of the accommodation and flexibility of the space and its marketability.
What are the common forms of foundations?
1) Trench or strip footings - generally used for residential dwellings, for walls and closely spaces columns
2) 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
3) Piled - long and slender reinforced concrete cylinders (piles) in the ground to deeper strata when less good load-bearing ground conditions/high loads
4) Pad - a slab foundation system under individual or groups of columns so that the column load is spread evenly
What are the different types of brickwork?
1) Solid wall construction - simplest type of wall constructed in solid brickwork
2) Cavity wall construction - two layers of brickwork tied together with metal ties
3) Bricks
- Stretcher is a brick laid horizontally
- Header a brick laid flat with the short end of the brick exposed
4) Efflorescence - white marks caused by hydroscopic salts in the brick work.
5) Spalling - damaged brickwork where the surface of the bricks starts to crumble because of freeze/thaw action
What is institutional shop specification?
Steel or concrete frame
Services capped off
Concrete floor and suspended ceiling
Let in shell condition with no shop front, ready for the retailers’ fitting out works
What is institutional office specification?
Steel or concrete frame
Steel frame buildings less columns and a wider span between the columns
Concrete frames have more columns, lower floor heights and a shorter span between columns
1) Full access raised floors with floor boxes
2) Appropriate ceiling height of 2.6 - 2.8m
3) Passenger lifts
What does HVAC stand for?
Heating ventilation and air conditioning
What are the types of fit out for offices?
1) Shell and core
2) Category A fit out
3) Category B fit out
What is institutional industrial specification?
Steel portal frame
8m minimum clear eaves heights
Full height loading doors
Minimum 30KN/sq m floor loading
Approximate site cover of 40%
What is an inherent defect?
Defect in the design or a material which has always been present
What is a latent defect?
It is a fault to the property that could not have been discovered by a reasonably thorough inspection of the property