Carrying out a structural inspection on Monday and once again
came across the dreaded ticked box of the mortgage surveyor asking for a damp
report. As always, this surveyor proudly puts after his name RICS which I would
have thought would give him some insight in to why there are damp problems in a
300 year old house! Surely they should start taking a bit more responsibility
for their job than just shifting the ‘problem’ onto a damp proof company who
will invariably include somewhere in their report ‘provide an injected damp proof course’. That is not addressing
the problem and almost never needed.
Inundated this week with small domestic designs varying from
single beams for ground floor extensions through to complete re-builds. I believe
more thought has to go into these smaller projects than the large as they are
often fiddly and the clients invariably want the impossible and want their
house to, in effect, to be the Tardis!
Managed to squeeze this basement extension below a five storey
structure with minimal downstands and no protruding columns
in order to keep to the client's brief for clean lines
The multi million pound refurbishment of Middlesex House,
Wembley is virtually complete with the new cladding glinting away in the
sunshine. Let’s hope its new cladding is waterproof after now the summer seems
to be already over. Having saved the client almost £200k in re-designing the
steelwork from the original proposals (designed by others I hasten to say), my
initial reservations that the 15 storey saw-tooth feature on the side would
look ‘odd’ I think the architect knew what he was doing.
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