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Pre purchase property survey

  • 05-12-2019 4:56pm
    #1
    Dingaan
    Registered Users Posts: 325 ✭✭


    Hello All,

    Can anyone recommend me a company who can complete a pre purchase property survey at a reasonable price?

    Ideally I would be looking for a type 2 inspection. I'm based in Dundalk.

    I got a quote of 738 which seems a bit on the high side.

    Any advice from past experience would be appreciated.

    Thanks in advance

    Dingaan


Comments

  • #2
    mada999
    Registered Users Posts: 7,067 ✭✭✭mada999


    Can't recommend a company but i ended up getting one done and it looked like a 12 year old created it. It was very poor, incorrect spellings, missing text etc. I had them to ask them to go and do the boundary survey as they never did it.

    If I was going to do the process again, i would go to a few of them and ask them to see previous reports etc.


  • #3
    thenightrider
    Registered Users Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭thenightrider


    I used someplace on Seatown Place not sure if they are still there or the name of the place. No idea how much it cost I would ring up a few places and ask for a quote.


  • #4
    Fingers Mcginty
    Registered Users Posts: 2,557 ✭✭✭Fingers Mcginty


    mada999 wrote: »
    Can't recommend a company but i ended up getting one done and it looked like a 12 year old created it. It was very poor, incorrect spellings, missing text etc. I had them to ask them to go and do the boundary survey as they never did it.

    If I was going to do the process again, i would go to a few of them and ask them to see previous reports etc.

    Agree with this. I paid 250 Euros 8 years ago for one of them.
    What an absolute waste of time. Gob****e missed sooo many items.
    One of the most obvious being no insulation in the attic.
    His idiotic report highlighted a fence post in the back garden not being straight.
    What a waste of time and money.


  • #5
    darklighter
    Registered Users Posts: 483 ✭✭darklighter


    Not sure what a "Type 2" survey is but the guy who did my survey before signing contracts on my house did a good job and was cheap enough....I can PM ya his name if ya want


  • #6
    cilim75
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭cilim75


    darklighter wrote: »
    Not sure what a "Type 2" survey is but the guy who did my survey before signing contracts on my house did a good job and was cheap enough....I can PM ya his name if ya want

    could you PM me his name and contact details please


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Do I remember some 'rule of thumb', where you're supposed to give 5% of the budget to the architect, half of that amount to the QS, or if it's a second-hand house, half again to the engineer?

    1.25% of purchase price sounds a bit dear to me, but I wish I'd done it when I bought my blace instead of getting the back-kitchen underpinned... no foundations!


  • #8
    Summer2020
    Registered Users Posts: 589 ✭✭✭Summer2020


    Got one done by a guy who was recommended here to me, not sure if he’d travel to Dundalk but I’d highly recommend him. Extremely thorough report (30+ page) and found some things which saved me a lot of money. Think he was around €350


  • #9
    cilim75
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭cilim75


    Summer2020 wrote: »
    Got one done by a guy who was recommended here to me, not sure if he’d travel to Dundalk but I’d highly recommend him. Extremely thorough report (30+ page) and found some things which saved me a lot of money. Think he was around €350
    Is your guy from Dublin? If yes, could you pm me his details please


  • #10
    Summer2020
    Registered Users Posts: 589 ✭✭✭Summer2020


    cilim75 wrote: »
    Is your guy from Dublin? If yes, could you pm me his details please

    Done


  • #11
    macadam
    Registered Users Posts: 2,684 ✭✭✭macadam


    Summer2020 wrote: »
    Done

    Could i get his details also please.


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