Alison and I were instructed to inspect and record the last snow shed still operating in Scotland. The Cruach Snow Shed is on Rannoch Moor and was built around 130 years ago over a cutting. The line passes through a cutting and was blocked by snow twice, a couple of years later, so the decision […]
Durie Heritage offers surveying services in the Scottish Borders. We are increasingly in demand throughout Scotland from Banff to Berwick but have undertaken only a few surveys around Jedburgh, Melrose and Langholm, including the deliciously rambling Carlesgil Lodge. We do drone surveys for architectural practices and can offer roof surveys on their own by drone. […]
What is a building surveyor and why do you need one? Well, it is a moot point as the term ‘surveyor’ is not protected and it appears that anyone can now offer to carry out a ‘building survey‘. Damp proofing companies are now saying that there is no such thing as rising damp – funny, […]
We were delighted to be able to provide expert advice to Historic Royal Palaces following our survey of the moat arches at the Tower of London and The Reveller at Tower Bridge. Both areas sit below the north approach road to Tower Bridge and have been suffering decades of water ingress. Our survey showed numerous […]
Covid has shown those able to work from home that it can work. However, when people are at home more, those little annoyances that they can get away from for the 9-10 hours they are at work, they end up staring at all day. Others, like a guy working for a company in London, bought […]
We were given the opportunity to carry out a detailed building survey of this wonderful A-listed mansion near Newton Stewart in Wigtownshire. The survey took Alison and I two days to complete and we produced the completed report, all 75 pages of it, within our agreed timescale of five working days. From 1908, almost the […]
Heritage & Design building surveyors are delighted to announce that we are now licenced by the Civil Aviation Authority to operate our Dji Mavic drone for roof and high-level surveys. We have already completed several roof surveys including a detailed inspection of a very large and complicated roof at Nazareth House in Cardiff which would […]
I read this on a national damp proofing company’s website, let’s call them Stichardson and Rarling to maintain their anonymity. The page was about treating ‘penetrating damp’. Their solution? Tank the inside of the property with a thick plastic membrane and replaster. You don’t need to be well-versed in construction to realise that the solution […]
As is common, following an RICS building survey, I was asked to carry out a timber and damp survey for my client on an old farmhouse. This was mainly due to the MRICS surveyor stating the house had rising damp and recommending it be damp proofed by a (3-day trained) damp proofing company. My client […]
I have just completed and submitted my dissertation entitled ‘Breaking through the conservation barrier’ for my MSc in ‘Conservation of Historic Buildings’. I have named it that because I have found there is a distinct and definite barrier to the ordinary person, we who live in one of the 99.3% of old houses that aren’t […]
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