Monthly Archives: July 2019

Rose tinted spectacles

Structural SurveyBy Nick Cooke July 18, 2019

This Sixty Seconds was inspired by a structural inspection that I have carried out a few days earlier. A young couple just moved into a house. This is a house they had had their eye on for a long time because it was the right size of house and it was a good looking house.…

Structural Appraisal

Case Study, Structural SurveyBy Nick Cooke July 2, 2019

My client is in the process of buying an old empty pub. We’ll call it the Dog and Duck. He is acting as an agent on behalf of an organisation that wants to convert it to a club house. As with most pubs, the ground floor was a large open plan area with large beams…