0800 298 5424
Building Surveyor Chatham
We are an independent chartered building surveyors in Chatham. We provide all types of surveying and property advice, with building survey tailored to your individual property needs. Our building survey reports are far superior to the kind your would receive from your mortgage company. Ours include, pictures, projected repair costs and general advice on the property.
We carry out building survey and give independent advice in Chatham on:
Chatham Building survey, Chatham House survey, Property defect survey, Building disputes survey,
Chartered Building Surveyor in Chatham
To find out some interesting facts about Chatham and places to visit in Chatham and the surrounding areas you can click on the boxes above.
To get a quote on a survey in Chatham, carried out by an Independent Building Surveyor, click on the 'Get a Survey Quote' box above.
If you book a survey with 1st Associated you will find that we take great pride in the quality of our survey and produce a very detailed survey report. We use plain English to explain any problems with the property to ensure that you understand the problems and how to resolve them.
We carry out residential structural survey and commercial survey in Chatham. Chatham is a town which is situated in Kent.
Information on Chatham
Travelling out of London on the A2 past Bexley and Dartford on the old Watling Street joining the M2 past Rochester is the Medway town of Chatham with Gillingham to its north and Maidstone to its south.
Due to its position facing the Continent and on the ancient Celtic route having been established by the Romans Chatham grow to be an important dockyard with Queen Elizabeth I giving it Royal status in 1568. Chatham dockyards were at first a refitting location but it quickly grew into a shipbuilding yard with many hundreds of vessels being launched at its historic docks including HMS Victory and was a large employer making the town very prosperous and growing in size.
Due to its growing importance several forts were built to protect the town from attack including Fort Amherst , Fort Pitt , Fort Luton, Fort Bridgwood and Fort Borstal. The area soon then grew into a military base with Army barracks built to accommodate the men and also encompassing naval barracks too. During the Victorian era the area was at the height of its expansion with many terraced houses being built particularly between the High Street and Luton village which can still be seen today. Due to the decline in the UK's Navy and moving of operations to elsewhere Chatham dockyards decreased in size until in 1984 it was closed with today the area is designated a World Heritage Site with the Historic Dockyards preserved and run by the Dockyard Trust and a popular tourist attraction celebrating its naval and shipbuilding past. The town is noted for its links to well known past residents including Charles Dickens who as a boy lived in The Brook and Ordnance Terrace and later after leaving the area returned to a house in Gad's Hill nearby, Zandra Rhodes the fashion designer was born in Chatham in 1940, Richard Dadd the Victorian artist was born in Chatham as was the artist, poet and musician Billy Childish much later in 1959.
As Chartered Surveyors we have carried out many residential building surveys in the town over the years and note the wide range of styles, types and ages of properties. In roads such as Maidstone Road , Church Lane and Mill Lane there are some large detached properties with delightful gardens.
Building Survey Chatham
If you are planning to book a building survey on a property you are purchasing in Chatham or the surrounding area then we would like to assure you that we always send a suitably qualified and experienced surveyor to carry out the job. This ensures that you get expert advice on any issues that we may find with the property we are surveying. All our surveyors are members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - RICS - and are Independent Chartered Building Surveyors. Being 'independent' means that they are working for you and you alone; they do not work for a mortgage company or an estate agents, so they have your best interests at heart.
All our survey contain lots of images, clearly showing any problems that we have identified at the property such as woodworm, rising damp or cracking to the walls. We also use sketches in our survey which are aimed at helping you to understand how certain areas are constructed or to help show more clearly a problem that we have identified. You will also find lots of definitions of any building terminology that we may use in our survey, as we firmly believe in 'Plain English' and really want you to fully understand what we are saying in the survey report.
Independent Chartered Building Surveyor
1st Associated Chartered Surveyors cover the whole of the UK including all areas of Kent for example in: Acol, Ashford, Badlesmere, Benenden, Boughton , Boxley, Brasted, Bridge, Broadstairs, Canterbury, Chatham, Chelsfield, Chiddingstone, Chilham, Cranbrook, Dartford, Davington, Dea, Detling, Doddington, Dover, Dunkirk, Dymchurch, Eastling, Edenbridge, Egerton, Elham, Elmsted Court, Eynsford, Folkestone, Gillingham, Golden Green, Goodnestone, Goudhurst, Graveney, Gravesend, Great Chart, Great Mongeham, Greatstone, Greenstreet, Halstead, Hamstreet, Harrietsham, Hastingleigh, Hawkinge, Hayes, Herne Bay, Hernhill, Horsmonden, Hythe, Kings Hill, Kingsdown, Kingston, Knockholt, Lamberhurst , Langton Green, Leaveland, Leeds, Lenham, Lower Halstow, Luddenham, Lyminge, Lynsted, Maidstone, county town of Kent, Manston, Marden, Margate, Meopham, Minster, Molash, Newnham, Norton, Oare, Old Bexley, Ospringe, Otford, Otterden, Painters Forstal, Pembury, Penshurst, Pluckley, Ramsgate, Rochester, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Rusthall, Sandgate, Selling, Sevenoaks, Sheerness, Shottenden, Sissinghurst, Slade Green, Speldhurst, St Nicholas at Wade, Stalisfield, Staple , Staplehurst , Stelling Minnis, Sundridge, Sutton, Tenterden, Teynham, Throwley, Tonbridge, Toys Hill, Uplees, Warren Street, Wateringbury, West Farleigh, West Malling, Whitstable, Wichling, Wilmington, Wilmington, Wrotham Heath and Wye.
We always recommend that people have a building survey carried out by an Independent Chartered Surveyor. It is laughable to expect that a mortgage owned / estate agent owned surveyors will give impartial advice. Call an Independent Chartered Surveyor on 0800 298 5424 for an impartial survey.
1st Associated provide house survey, commercial survey, engineers reports, property training plus more all carried out by RICS surveyors in Chatham and the surrounding areas.
Contact us today for a free, no obligation quotation, including building survey, structural survey, homebuyers reports and pre sales reports, for Chatham and the surrounding towns and villages.
Get a survey quote:
Residential Building Survey Quote
Commercial Building Survey Quote or Schedule of Condition Quote
We carry out Structural survey, Structural Building survey on Residential properties and Commercial properties throughout Kent.
References:
Whilst a lot of this is written from general knowledge and local knowledge of the area and here are some websites that we think will be of interest to you in the Kent area some of which we have used for information and we would like to give them credit for this.
Lakeside Development, Thurrock Essex section
What did we survey in Hythe? And What did we survey in Dungeness?
HoppingDowninKent.org.uk, Camelotintel.com/heritage/counties/England
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council Buildings Page for more information – they have a free downloadable Listed Buildings a guide for owners leaflet, WhiteCliffCountry.org, EnglishHeritage.org, TheHeritageTrail.co.uk, WCCTA.org.uk, VisitThanet.co.uk, CinquePorts.org, OpenSandwich.co.uk, EnglishHeritage.co.uk, SeeWhitstable.com, Oysta.fsnet.co.uk, WhitstableOysterFestival.com, Canterbury.co.uk, CanterburyCathedral.org, CanterburyTales.org, Bluewater.co.uk, Lakeside.co.uk, TourMaidstone.com, Museum.Maidstone.com, ThisIsAshford.co.uk and LyddAirport.co.uk
