Kent Building survey, Kent House survey, Property defect survey, Building disputes survey,
Kent is located to the South East of England. The surrounding counties are East Sussex to the West, Surrey to the North West , Greater London and Essex to the North and The English Channel to the South.
If you are purchasing a property in Kent, please ensure that you have a building survey carried out on it. A building survey, prepared by a chartered building surveyor could literally save you thousands of pounds. The survey only needs to uncover one potential problem with the property and the cost of the building survey is more than recovered.
If you book a building survey in Kent with 1st Associated surveyors you will find that we take great pride in the quality of our building survey and produce a very detailed building survey report, whether it be for a residential property or a commercial property. We use plain English in our building surveys to explain any problems with the property to ensure that you understand the problems and how to resolve them.
1st Associated Chartered Building Surveyors cover the whole of the UK including all towns and villages in Kent for example in:
Acol , Ashford, Badlesmere , Benenden , Boughton , Boxley , Brasted , Bridge , Canterbury, Chatham, Chelsfield , Chiddingstone , Chilham , Cranbrook , Davington , Deal, Detling , Doddington , Dover, Dunkirk , Dymchurch , Eastling, Egerton , Elham , Elmsted Court , Eynsford , Folkestone, Golden Green , Goodnestone , Goudhurst , Graveney , Gravesend, Great Chart , Great Mongeham , Greatstone , Greenstreet , Halstead , Hamstreet , Harrietsham , Hastingleigh , Hawkinge , Hayes , Herne Bay, Hernhill , Horsmonden , 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, 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 are an independent chartered surveyor in Kent. We are independent of any lender or bank or mortgage company. When we are surveying a property we are working for you, not them. This means we are working towards your best interests. We want to ensure that your property investment is sound and that you are receiving value for money.
We are a building surveyors that operate throughout the UK. As a building surveyors in Kent we are often asked to work on not only a building survey but also a boundary walls dispute survey, a schedule of condition survey and a specific defect survey.
We are also a commercial building surveyors - still operating Kent, we can provide schedule of condition survey, dilapidations reports and a commercial building survey - our Kent building surveyors have the skills and experience to save you money on your commercial building purchase.
If you would like more information on the Kent area please scroll down and if you are looking for a survey in Kent use our free phone number 0800 298 5424 .
1stAssociated.co.uk have Chartered Surveyors who cover the whole of the UK including Ashford , and its Eurostar International Station and its mixture of old and new buildings we have surveyed over the years, Broadstairs , with its beautiful coastline, Canterbury , known for stunning cathedral, Chatham , with its historic Dockyard, Dartford , with its QEII bridge and crossing, Deal , one of the cinque ports, Dover, the gateway to England a delight to visit when surveying both residential and commercial buildings, Edenbridge , with Hever Castle, Folkestone , with its wide sweeping promenade where as a Chartered Structural Engineer we have visited many times, Gillingham , one of the Medway towns, Herne Bay , with its colourful beach huts, Hythe , with its Royal Military Canal, Maidstone , with Leeds castle nearby, Margate , in the district of Thanet where we often survey properties, Ramsgate , with its Viking Ship, Rochester , known for its historic dockyard and castle, Royal Tunbridge Wells , famous for its Spa water and The Pantiles and as a chartered valuer we often visit, Sevenoaks ,with Knole Park and acres of deer park, Sheerness , on the Isle of Sheppey, Tenterden , with its Elizabethan, Georgian and Victorian buildings, Tonbridge , not to be confused with Tunbridge, Westerham , with Chartwell home to Sir Winston Churchill, Whitstable , where you must taste the fish caught daily and good to stop to take a bite to eat when surveying in the area, and Wye on the River Stour. We provide Building Surveys to make sure you are buying the right property and provide market Valuations to ensure that you are buying the property at the right price together with Specific Defects Reports if you have any problems in any particular area then contact us today for a free, no obligation quotation. We are more than happy to talk about what the Building Surveys involve, these are also sometimes known as Structural Surveys or Engineers Reports. For those not living in the area here is some general information on Kent .
Kent is known as The Garden of England due to the many products that grow plentifully in the area and being a very agricultural area with many apple orchards and being famous for top fields, with many Londoners coming on holiday to pick the hops which was very popular from the 1850's to 1950's.
It is particularly famous for the chalk White Cliffs of Dover, Dover Castle looking down over the Port of Dover , Leeds Castle , Dockyards at Rochester , Royal Tunbridge Wells ( a place where we have had a number of surveys which borders onto East Sussex .
When surveying in Kent we have visited the delightful villages of Acol , Badlesmere , Benenden , Boughton; the main road between London and Canterbury used to pass through this little village Boxley , Brasted , Bridge , Chelsfield , Chiddingstone , Chilham , Cranbrook , Davington , Detling , Doddington , Dunkirk , Dymchurch , Eastling, near the Kent Downs designated an area of natural beauty, Egerton , Elham , Elmsted Court , Eynsford , Golden Green , Goodnestone , Goudhurst , Graveney , Great Chart , Great Mongeham , Greatstone , Greenstreet , Halstead , Hamstreet , Harrietsham , Hastingleigh , Hawkinge , Hayes , Hernhill , Horsmonden , Kings Hill , Kingsdown , Kingston , Knockholt , Lamberhurst , Langton Green , Leaveland , Leeds , known for its famous castle , but also as it is in the beautiful north Downs of Kent, Lenham , Lower Halstow , Luddenham , Lyminge , Lynsted , Manston , Marden , Meopham , Minster , Molash , Newnham , Norton , Oare , Old Bexley , Ospringe , Otford , Otterden , Painters Forstal , Pembury , Penshurst , Pluckley , Rusthall , Sandgate , Selling , Shottenden , Sissinghurst , Slade Green , Speldhurst , St Nicholas at Wade , Stalisfield , Staple , Staplehurst , Stelling Minnis , Sundridge , Sutton , Teynham , Throwley , Toys Hill , interesting name probably named after Robert Toys a local from years gone by , Uplees , Warren Street , Wateringbury , West Farleigh , West Malling , Wichling , Wilmington , Wilmington , Wrotham Heath and Wye.
Contact 1stAssociated.co.uk for help and advice if you have property issues with your existing property or indeed if you require a valuation or building survey on a property you are purchasing in Kent on 0800 298 5424 .
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