A day in the life of a building surveyor - April 24
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- In this video we look at an insurance claim for flood, but with a difference as the flood water came out of the house rather than in to it, and then onto a site visit where we look at progress on a fire damaged house prior to the roof trusses being pitched.
I love watching your videos. I’m a Surveyor, and it’s amazing how different our jobs are! I mainly stick to L2 & L3 Surveys
Thank you. There are so many alternatives which makes it so interesting.
Your driver needs to smile
He does…..sometimes
Interesting snapshot with detail.
We needed a Tin Hat, but deemed too expensive by the LA, took some of our walls 4 years to dry out ! -That after the rains of Oct Nov 2018.
Good to see some bits will be improved/ modernised, roof ties and extension bits.
Will they sand blast those walls? The smell never goes.
Will look for more of your videos, we still have scaffolding today, nearly 7 years now 😂
That sounds completely unacceptable. No building takes so long to dry.
Very interesting, thankyou.
Is it?
75mm timber wall plate?? How does that shrink then?? Hmmm. Interesting that a course of brick not seen as a more appropriate substrate.
And the fink trusses should NOT be stored with their weight resting on the rafter tails. They should be supported on the bottom chord, as they would when fixed down on the wallpaper- common sense basically!!! NOT a good advert for the building company involved. This, and the mess on the second scaffold lift speaks volumes about the lack of pride evident in the British construction industry nowdays. I'm surprised that you did not fla g up the incorrect/ poor storage aspect
Thank you for your comment. Not on here, but certainly did to the contractor!
Wall plate..
Autocorrect is a wonderful thing. :-)
Rubbish. Most trusses can be easily lifted by two men and can quite happily be stored for a while like that. In all my years I can’t remember one failing due to this.
Those wall plates are put up there with fucking sand. That’s not mortar. That’s gonna crumble to dust in the first heavy winds
Funny everything pushes for bundled oil tanks ( usually end up being plastic) yet in a fire situation they are bloody useless. Had next doors only been a single skin steel tank non of this would have happened. Other than a small boiler external to the property. Hate plastic tanks personally
How on earth did they allow the second property to remain standing after the fire, when it should have been knocked down and a new building erected?
Quantum! Still four good walls, sound first floor, ground floor and foundations. It is actually quite rare for a building to be completely demolished post fire.
Thank you for the reply, I guess with such a narrow cavity that the owner will have to simply put up with the heat loss. I still think it’s a wasted opportunity to replace a building with something far more energy efficient. Thanks
@@davidbarnes241 we still need to comply with A.D.F. My colleague is dealing with this job and I’m not sure how compliance will be achieved, but it is an issue with the narrower cavity.
They probably had to replace their oil tank and had to use a plastic one because regs require a bund and a plastic one is considered safer for contamination reasons but clearly not safer for fire safety.
Could just thermally clad the walls with a new larger roof overhang
Did they use cheap light duty straps or heavy 😂
3.35x30 i believe.
Nice explanation of what goes on in a surveyors life 👍🔨📐🪚
Thank you Gary. I love your channel. Used a few of your jokes from time to time!
@@westonesurveyors8139 O great, I didn't know you watched them. I must for the jokes, they're a bit old granddad ones.