Inspection - Level 2 Flashcards
Tell me about how you ensure your safety when on site.
See level 1 questions - How long it will take to travel so that I am not rushing to get to site and putting myself at risk.
Is parking available?
Lone working options - eg. What to do if things go wrong. Stay safe, who knows where I am?
Site Condition - Are we visiting a building site/new build development? Different PPE requirement.
Does the vendor/tenant know when we are coming if occupied. Do they know we are going if a key job. Tenant given 24 hours notice.
Who are we meeting on site? For example an adult (above 18).
Do they have animals and how will they be secured?
Is the vendor vulnerable? For example health conditions, think COVID.
Weather conditions - eg snow, ice.
Tell me about how you ensure your safety when lone working.
See level 1 questions - diary is known to surveyor support, use of stay safe.
Give me an example of where you have recognised a limitation of your knowledge and sought external specialist advice.
Structural reports when concerned that an element is moving/failing. Less about knowledge, more about limitations of a valuation inspection.
Explain to me your inspection methodology when inspecting a property.
Different dependent on key, owner in, MV or Home Survey.
Explain to me what information you gather when inspecting buildings.
Construction. Location. Surroundings(trees, JK). Size of the property. Grounds and boundaries. Legal issues such as right of way, easement, building regs. Standard of fixtures and fittings. Condition of super structure. Services (mains or off mains) Lease details, GR and SC.
What would you do if you identified a potential defect on site?
I would follow the trail if necessary. (woodwork, damp, breast removed). I would study the defect further so that I could make an effective diagnosis and make recommendation to the client/applicant as necessary.
Leeds-Bradford Road, talk me through your review of the instruction.
Location.
Applicant lived at the address.
Local authority.
Relatively low value against the surrounding properties and I’ve come to learn that this is often because the discounted price has been instructed at the PP/EV instead of the market value.
Why did you suspect a Right to Buy instruction?
Location.
Applicant lived at the address.
Local authority.
Relatively low value against the surrounding properties and I’ve come to learn that this is often because the discounted price has been instructed at the PP/EV instead of the market value.
Talk me through your inspection methodology for flats.
Why do you record your external observations last?
I do make some observations as approach property, but on an MV I want to introduce myself to the owner, ask questions first before walking round the grounds unannounced. Find it more efficient to stay inside, once inside and then do the grounds and rear elevation last.
How did you recognise Japanese Knotweed?
Was alert as had seen it elsewhere on the estate which was across a main road from an outbreak by the canal.
It this instance, no leaves, no flower, just the bamboo style stems at early growth.
Give me another specific example of an inspection you have carried out.
Level 2. More time. Tend to do outside, top bottom, inside, loft space and work down.
Report elementally.
