Northolt Building survey, Northolt House survey, Property defect survey, Building disputes survey,
To find out some interesting facts about Northolt and places to visit in Northolt and the surrounding areas you can click on the four boxes below.
To get a quote on a survey in Northolt, carried out by an Independent Building Surveyor, click on the red 'quick 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 surveys and commercial surveys in Ealing.
Leafy Northolt used to be called Northala according to its entry in the Domesday Book of 1086. However, there was a settlement in this area in the Saxon days. The name Northolt means ' Northern Wood' and separates it from Southolt (now called Southall). From the middle ages farming was the main occupation and was still prevalent in the early 1800s. By 1876 though most of the varied crops had disappeared and was replaced by the production of hay. Farming continued in Northolt longer than other local towns and villages but by 1963 little remained and by 1990s it had gone altogether.
Over the centuries the population growth was slow and this can be explained by the lack of roads and the poor water supply which was only improved in the 1920s. The big population increase has been due to Northolt's close proximity to Ealing and road building. Modern family homes were built in the 1920s and 1930s, although by the 1950s and 1960s the housing being constructed was predominantly local authority rented housing.
(Examples of building surveys for war years properties and post war properties can be downloaded from our downloadable surveys section)
Northolt was once famed for its ‘pony racing' which began here in 1929. In World War Two the racecourse was used as an army depot and prisoner of war camp and was demolished after the war.
Northolt has a lovely village green where the ‘Coronation Clock' has stood since 1937. The clock was put here to commemorate the coronation of King George VI.
Northolt has a good choice of local shops and pubs and is a place where we have carried out many commercial building surveys.
If you are planning to book a building survey on a property you are purchasing in Northolt 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 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.
1st Associated Surveyors cover the whole of the UK including all areas of Ealing for example in:
Acton, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell, Northolt, Perivale and Southall.
We always recommend that people have a building survey carried out by an Independent Surveyor. It is laughable to expect that a mortgage owned / estate agent owned surveyors will give impartial advice. Call an Independent Surveyor on 0800 298 5424 for an impartial survey.
Contact us today for a free, no obligation quotation, including building survey, structural survey, homebuyers reports and pre sales reports, for Northolt and the surrounding towns and villages.
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We carry out Structural survey, Structural Building survey on Residential properties and Commercial properties throughout Ealing
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 Ealing area some of which we have used for information and we would like to give them credit for this.
Ealing.gov.uk, London-motorcycle-museum.org, Informationbritain.co.uk, Itzcaribbean.com, actonpark.co.uk, Visitlondon.com, Itmuseum.co.uk