Inspection

Question 1

What types of inspections are there?

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For what reasons/p;urposes have you carried out inspections?

Answer 1

1. Valuation Survey
2. Purchase and Sale
3. Leasing and Letting
4. Lease Renewal/Rent Reviews
5. Property Management
6. Dilapidations
7. Party Wall Survey
8. Schedule of Condition
9. Defects Analysis
10. Structural/Mechanical/Electrical

Question 2

Inspection Tools:

Name some measuring inspection tools?

Answer 2

1. Tape
2. Lazer
3. 2m Wooden Rule
4. Theodolite

Question 3

Inspection Tools:

Name some inspection discovery tools?

Answer 3

1. Boroscope (for within walls under floor boards)
2. Hammer (to help with drains)
3. Chisel.Screw Driver (to help with drains)
4. Ladders (Loft/flat roof inspection)
5. Moisure Meter (to discover dampness)
6. Manhole Keys (to help lift some manholes)

Question 4

Inspection Tools:

Name recording equipment for inspections etc?

Answer 4

1. Pen/Paper
2. Iphone/Ipad
3. Dictaphone
4. Camera/Video
5. Thermal imaging camera
6. Camera pole for camera/go Pro

Question 5

Inspection Tools:

Name some items of tools relating to Health & Safety?

Answer 5

1. Torch
2. Phone
3. High Viz Clothing
4. PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)

• ​Gloves
• Masks
• Hand Sanitiser
• Eye wear
• Steel toe cap boots
• Ear Defenders
• Safety Helmet

Question 6

Before visiting a premises/site what does your pre-inspection checklist comprise?

State the following with recommendations/observations:

1. Mode of travel
2. Lone Working Policy
3. Property Condition
4. Occupation of premises
5. What type of activity is at the premises
6. Site rules and Welfare if any
7. Roofs
8. High Structures
9. Dangerous Substances
10. Diseases
11. Spoecial Access
12. Special Risks
13. Access Equipment
14. Other Equipment (PPE)
15. Environmental matters
16. Personal Matters

Answer 6

• How im going to travel - Car or Public Transport
• ​Not too fast or too long
• Are you currently on any medication that can affect your driving.
• Pasrking your vehicle safely.
• Lone Working
• Notifty colleague/office or partner of where you are.
• Call when you arrive.
• Call when you leave.
• Have mobile phone.
• Use of what 3 words.
• Property Condition
• Is the property derelict
• Any areas unsafe for access.
• Occupation
• Vendors in occupation
• tenants
• Vacant
• Pets/animals
• Any aggressive people
• Squatters/burgulars
• Type of activity at the premises
• Retail, offices, manufacturing, warehouse, residential
• Noisy, fumes, vehicle movements, equipmenmt, plant/machinery
• Site Rules and Welfare if any
• Does the occupier have house or site rules?
• Emergency arrangements
• Site induction procedures
• Roofs
• Is it necessary to go on or can you inspect with binoculas or from a window above.
• High Structures
• Safety with scaffolding
• Inspection via a cherry picker
• Dangerous Substances
• Chemiclas, radiation, asbestos, gas etc
• Register of ACMs or environmental reprots available?
• Diseases
• Clinical Waste
• Used syringes/needles, condoms, razer blades, etc
• Legionella bacteria in disused water storage systems
• Special Access
• Underground, Abseiling
• Special Risks
• Railway premises, Security establishments, plant rooms, roof top telecoms equipment
• Access Equipment
• Ladder, Cherry Picker, Mobile Work Platform (MEWP)
• Other Equipment (PPE)
• Gloves
• Face MAsk
• Safety Helmet
• Eye Protection
• Safety Footwear
• Hi-Viz
• Lighting
• Environmental Matters
• Weather Conditions and/or light levels
• Temperature extremes
• Personal Matters
• Genger or level of fitness
• Phobias e.g. vertigo or claustophobia

Question 7

From an external inspection only how would you determine that a brick wall is of solid or cavity construction?

Answer 7

1. Solid = Stretchers and Headers (The presence of Headers)
2. Cavity = Stretchers

Question 8

How thich is a solid brick wall?

Answer 8

• 9 inches approx 230mm

Question 9

How thick is a cavity wall?

Answer 9

• 11 inches or 270mm (Approx)

Question 10

What are the two main domestic-type of roof structures?

Answer 10

1. Rafter and Purlin
2. Timber trussed

Question 11

What is the specification for a modern industrial unit?

Answer 11

• Min 8m clear eaves height with 10% roof lights
• Min 30kn per sq m floor leading capacity
• 3 Phase electricity
• Plastic coated prrofile cladding with brick or blockwork walls to approx. 2m

Question 12

Describe a portal frame?

Answer 12

• A portal frame is a double pitched roof supported by steel columns

Question 13

What is the specification for Grade A offices?

Answer 13

• Steel or reinforvced concrete frame
• fully accessed raised floors
• 2.6m clear floor to ceiling height
• ceiling void of 350mm and a raised floorr void of 150mm
• Suspended ceilings
• LG7 compliant lighting
• air-conditioning

Question 14

What are the causes of damp in buildings?

Answer 14

1. Penetrating
2. Rising
3. Condensation
4. Plumbing failures

Question 15

What causes rising damp in a building?

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How should a DPC be fitted?

Answer 15

1. No DPC in older buildings
2. Failed DPC like slates
3. Bridged DPC

• A DPC should be 150mm or 2 brick courses from ground level

Question 16

What would lead you to conclude that dampness is caused by condensation?

Answer 16

• Black mould (which can be wiped off with a damp cloth)

Question 17

What are deleterious materials?

Answer 17

• Asbestos
• High alumina concrete
• Calcium chloride cement

Question 18

Describe an inspection and investigation for a valuation?

VPS2 Inspections, Investigations and Records

VPGA 8: Valuation of Real Property Interests

Answer 18

• Surrounding area and facilities
• Characteristics of the subject property
• Dimensions/Size
• Condition
• Environmental matterrs Radon, Flood Risk, Ground Conditions, Contamination
• Potential for Development?

Other matters such as:

1. Improving leasehold properties
2. Planning (zoning) controls
3. Running costs

Question 19

What factors can have a negative impact upon a valuation?

Answer 19

1. Contamination
2. Flooding
3. Asbestos
4. Invasive species
5. High Voltage overhead lines
6. Telecommunications
7. Solar farms
8. Wind farms
9. Mineral and shallow mine workings
10. Fracking
11. Area known for subsidence
12. Radon
13. Waste management processes
14. Fly tipping
15. EPC Ratings
16. Earthquake prone and geo-thermal areas