How do I find a good building surveyor in London?

 If you want to find the best building surveyors London can provide, you are definitely going to have to turn to the Internet. But before I give you the simple guide to that, let’s look about how important it is to have building surveyed.

A survey is not remotely the same thing as an inspection, which is also something you definitely should have done. A survey is a precise measurement of where property lines are, sizes and dimensions of rooms in buildings, etc.

Why have this done again?

Why do you need ever survey done, given that most buildings in London are not particularly new. London is an old city, and when it comes to buildings that aren’t gigantic in recently updated, the most recent major build was done during the recovery from the blitz after World War II. Sure, there are new things build here there, but there’s not really much room within the London Metropolitan area for new development. Therefore, surely your property and your building have been surveyed in the past right?

They most certainly have, but not with the precision that can be done now, and things changes buildings are renovated, especially in a particularly ancient and populous area like London where property lines and building shapes change in a very odd an organic way over time.

How do I find a surveyor?

To find a surveyor, all you have to do is search for “building surveyors near me”, and your phone will know that you mean London, because it will use your location is part of the search criteria. When it comes to surveyors, you will have quite a few results, though maybe not quite as many as with a more common search. Choosing from these results is where you need a little bit more criteria. Google cannot help you with this, at least not directly. However, they have provided a platform for customer reviews, and this is where you need to look.

Remember that online, people are very quick to be negative, so be selective about which negative feedback you take seriously. Only major ethical issues or very obvious and very real incompetence should be taken seriously in this regard. However, when it comes to positive feedback, it’s worth its weight in gold. If people are actually taking the time to extol the virtues of a service that was provided, they must be really good at what they do, because people tend to be too apathetic and lazy to complement a company even when they do a good job!