Re: HELP! My house is falling down!

[nellypope]

Have these people never heard of surveys??? Unbelievable! If you were comtemplating buying a property (particularly one over 100 years old) surely you would have a comprehensive survey! :-)

[Polly1958]

Yes I totally agree.I watched this programme and couldn't believe after all they were told about the fungi, that he was cleaning it off without a mask.

[nellypope]

Absolutely!! My hubby and I thought exactly the same. I understand that sometimes things go by unnoticed by the surveyor, but I think I would have clocked the slimy black walls, bowing gable end and the leaky roof!

[jackthehat]

You would (or perhaps you wouldn't) be surprised at the people who decide to 'save' by not having the full structural survey done.

It's frightening !

[Mosaic]

I suppose they are gold dust to programme makers - like the people who never throw away their rubbish and never clean up, then invite in the cameras.....

[nellypope]

LOL! It's unbelievable, my Dad's a surveyor and always feels the need to inspect everyone's homes structural "soundness" even uninvited. YEs Jack it's frightening, surely though they must have felt the dampness, seen the black slime? . . . perhaps not!

[deggers316]

just wonder how many thousands they get paid for having their house up for the prog considering they'd only £10.000 to do repairs with and it took that, quite a lot of money if you saw the house after it was done cos they'd got nowt left for all that stuff

[nellypope]

I'd feel a little p***ed off if I were Sarah Beeny! ;-)

[dotty.]

I've just watched that nd don't get how sorting those drains out would cost £5000, those 2 blokes did the job in a few hours by the look of it

[jackthehat]

I must admit I sometimes watch these programmes with bemusement.
They always have teeny-weeny budgets and no contingency funds; yet when SB returns some months later, they have managed to have all-sorts done......that was no cheap doorset, or kitchen in the extension !

[sherrardk]

I don't think people want to see the problems - all they can see is that they are going to get a massive house for a bargain price. Totally agree that they seemed to have spent a flipping fortune doing it up.

[DeadEndStreet]

>> I understand that sometimes things go by unnoticed by the surveyor,<<

Ask DocFilth who comes on this site he paid for a surveyor and he got ripped off big style. How any surveyor could not notice some of the faults is unbelievable.