It has been shown many times that professionally prepared dilapidation survey reports are effective in avoiding disputes over damaged property claims. If clients and property owners know each holds exactly the same report of the condition of the property in question when construction started, it becomes simpler to see if the property was damaged after construction started.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do Dilapidation Survey Reports protect clients?
How to Select a Dilapidation Survey Business
Along with price, consider other factors depending on the complexity of your project:
- Unbroken length of time in the business
- List and status of regular clients
- Status of projects worked on
- Experience of many types and sizes of projects
- References
Why are Dilapidation Survey Reports Necessary?
In the past, many claims by property owners that construction work had damaged their properties were decided in court, often a lengthy and costly process for both sides.
Later, Government Departments and Councils introduced a simple solution - that before starting work, those doing the work must undertake detailed inspections of properties beside the work site and provide to the owners of these properties detailed reports of the condition of the properties recorded during the inspections. In many cases, Departments and Councils also required copies of the reports before allowing construction to start.
As both sides now held exactly the same information, court actions dropped away.
What is a Dilapidation Survey?
'Dilapidation Survey' is the widely used term for a three-part process:
- An inspection of a physical asset such as a building at a certain time
- A record of the inspection
- A report describing what was found during the inspection
