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Black Cat Building Surveys Ltd

Black Cat Building Surveys are based in Redhill.

We offer a polite, courteous, professional service and specialise in providing RICS Full Building Surveys and RICS HomeBuyer Reports in the South-East of England at very competitive rates. We have a wealth of experience and knowledge on a fast variety of buildings. We are independent from banks, building societies and insurance companies (hence the name Black Cat). We provide a completely honest and unbiased opinion of your property which is reflected in our detailed and comprehensive reports.

  • Inspections can be carried out at short notice.
  • Black Cat is truly independent and therefore able to give honest and unbiased advice to all our clients.
  • Black Cat provides a responsive timely service to all our clients.
  • Black Cat has the knowledge and expertise in many areas of property and buildings and can provide our clients with a comprehensive and "one-stop" service.
  • We have a detailed and thorough knowledge of properties over a wide area within the South East of England ranging from London to Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Surrey and the Home Counties.
  • If required, we offer extended hours service: appointments available evenings and weekends.

Black Cat strives to be different and we understand people make their purchasing decisions on differences.

Black Cat has just purchased a drone to examine at close quarters, previously inaccessible areas. These areas include: chimney pots, chimney stacks, lead flashing, roof tiles, ridges and gutters.

Most houses have problems with these items and inspecting from ground level with binoculars can be difficult. Black Cat have the advantage of using a drone which most other surveyors don’t have access to. For a small extra fee Black Cat will utilise the drone to inspect these inaccessible areas to give our clients a more complete picture, literally as the drone records photos and video of these areas.

 

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Black Cat Building Surveys Ltd

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4.8 out of 5.0 based on 23 reviews

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Really great service from Ed and BlackCat. Ed, kept me informed and delivered a very high quality survey, especially the large number of pictures he took during the Survey.

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Professional and accurate, very happy about the service

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Ed was thorough, professional and able to complete in a timely manner from Booking through to sending through the report.

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Ed was efficient, helpful and thorough. He produced his report very quickly and it was very detailed, accompanied by hundreds of photos.

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Very good service. Survey booked in quickly. Ed spend a long time debriefing on his findings and answering questions before sending the report which was very helpful. Would recommend.

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We used Black Cat Surveyors to conduct a full structural survey on our purchase of a 100+ year old property. We were very happy with the level of service provided by Ed – the report arrived within a week and was thorough and easy to understand for first time buyers such as ourselves. It came with a link to an online directory of 300 photos he had taken during his inspection. This is above and beyond the service offered by other surveyors and by having a photo to refer to, made it much easier to follow the points outlined in his report. The report was followed up with a phone call where we had the chance to go over any questions we had or areas which needed further explanation/clarification. Based on our experience, I would happily recommend Ed Farmer to anyone looking for a chartered surveyor.

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I received an excellent service from Ed. I believe his advice saved me from making a costly mistake.

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Ed is a very knowledgeable Surveyor, he called to go through what he saw at the property and reassured us of our concerns with the full structural survey, however it took two weeks to finally receive the report due to him being too busy which he did apologise for. We then felt that his survey was rushed with some simple typing errors and we were disappointed that we had given the job to this Surveyor over other companies that quoted. He also turned up to the property to carry out the survey 3 hours late despite me calling him and his office around 10 times on the day. With the vendor complaining to the estate agent this caused unnecessary stress and made us worry about whether the surveyor would turn up. This may have been a one off however I am disappointed that I cannot recommend this company.