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Berkshire Building survey, Berkshire House survey, Property defect survey, Building disputes survey, Berkshire Dilapidation survey, Berkshire Building survey, Berkshire Commercial building survey, Berkshire schedule of condition survey

Building surveyor Berkshire

Berkshire is in the South East of England and is bordered to the North by Oxfordshire, to the West by Gloucestershire and Wiltshire to the South by Hampshire and Surrey and to the East by Middlesex and Buckinghamshire.

Berkshire Building Surveyor

If you are purchasing a property in Berkshire, 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.

Berkshire property survey

For more information on the Berkshire area please scroll down and if you are looking for a survey in Berkshire use our free phone number 0800 298 5424 .

1stAssociated.co.uk have Surveyors who cover the whole of the UK including Ascot , known for its racecourse, Bracknell , home to the Met Office where we have carried out many building surveys, Burghclere, Cookham, made up of Cookham Village, Cookham Dean and Cookham Rise, Datchet , with its great oak tree commemorating Victoria's jubilee another town we often carry out structural surveys in, Hungerford, with the ancient John O'Gaunt Inn which was once a Workshouse, Lambourn, in the Berkshire Downs, Maidenhead, on the River Thames a delight to visit as a surveyor, Newbury, famous like Ascot for its racecourse, Old Windsor , with its delightful architecture, Reading, known for its University and Music Festival, Slough, with its industrial units, Sunninghill, with Sunninghill Park home to Prince Andrew, Taplow, Theale, a historic coaching village with many beautiful buildings which are of interest to structural surveyors, Wargrave, with 60s and 70s housing in former farmland in Victoria Rd, Windsor, famous for its castle and Wokingham with its impressive Victorian red brick town hall. 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 Berkshire .

Home Surveyor in Berkshire

If you book a building survey in Berkshire 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 Building Surveyors cover the whole of the UK including all towns and villages in Berkshire for example in: Aldermaston , Aldworth, Ascot, Barkham, Binfield, Bracknell, Bray, Brightwalton, Bucklebury, Burghclere, Cookham , Cox Green, Charvil , Clewer , Colnbrook, Datchet, Dedworth, East Garston , Eastbury, Eton, Hungerford, Hurst, Kintbury, Lambourn, Leckhampstead, Maidenhead, Mortimer, Newbury, Old Windsor, Pangbourne, Reading, Ruscombe, Slough, Sonning, Speen, Streatley-on-Thames, Sunninghill, Taplow, Theale, Tilehurst , Twyford, Warfield, Wargrave, Windsor and Wraysbury. For more information on the Berkshire area please scroll down and if you are looking for a survey in Berkshire use our free phone number 0800 298 5424

Places of Interest Properties we have surveyed in this area Facts about this area Types of property in this area

 

Building Surveyor Berkshire

Discover more about us and why an INDEPENDENT BUILDING SURVEY is so important

We are independent surveyors in Berkshire. 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.

Residential Building Surveyors Berkshire

We are building surveyors that operate throughout the UK. As building surveyors 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.

Commercial Building Surveyor Berkshire

We are also a commercial building surveyors - still operating Berkshire, we can provide schedule of condition survey, dilapidations reports and a commercial building survey - our building surveyors have the skills and experience to save you money on your commercial building purchase.

Information on Berkshire and where to get a building survey

When surveying in the Royal County of Berkshire you note how picturesque it is and that it is noted for its delightful towns and villages that sit on the River Thames and River Kennet such as Henley-on-Thames, Windsor and Eton . There are major rail links from Reading station to Paddington and Waterloo in London to the East and Westward to Wales and the South West. Reading is a major town with The Oracle Shopping Centre an attraction for retail therapy. Windsor and Old Windsor are stepped in history with the Castle standing in the centre of town and Windsor Great Park with a thousand acres of woodland, lakes and gardens has stunning views. Heathrow airport is the UK 's largest airport with both national and international flights and only a short distance from Berkshire . An area of outstanding beauty is The Berkshire Downs with the famous White Horse carved in the chalk hillside in Uffington.

When surveying in the county of Berkshire the major roads include A4, A30, A33, A34 and M4, M3 and M25 motorways.

 

The delightful Berkshire villages we have carried out surveys in include Aldermaston , Aldworth, with 13 th century Bell pub Barkham , Binfield , Bray , Brightwalton , just off the A338, Bucklebury , Charvil , Clewer , Colnbrook , with its old coaching inns, Cookham, Cox Green, Dedworth, East Garston, Eastbury, in west Berkshire not far from Lambourn, Eton, Hurst, Kintbury, Lambourn, Leckhampstead, Mortimer, Pangbourne , with its well known public school Panbourne College, Ruscombe, Sonning, Speen, Streatley-on-Thames, Taplow, Theale, five miles west of Reading, Tilehurst, Twyford, Warfield, a small village on the outskirts of Bracknell with delightful farmland and some large sought after properties many of which we have surveyed over the years Wargrave, and Wraysbury.

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 Berkshire on 0800 298 5424 .

 

References:

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 Berkshire area some of which we have used for information and we would like to give them credit for this.

Maidenhead.net, ReadingFestival.com, Southillpark.org, Maidenheadheritage.org, TheFatDuck.co.uk, ReadingMuseum.org, Slough.gov, SloughHistoryOnline.org, VisitWestBerkshire.org, HeritageBritain.com, Windsor.gov.uk, RoyalWindsor.com, Wokinghamsociety.org, GetWokingham.co.uk.

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