How do measured building surveys aid in refurbishment projects?
posted 16th October 2024
Measured building surveys play a vital role in refurbishment projects. When refurbishing your existing home or building, you think of the sketches you received with the new layouts, maybe you are focused on what fixtures and fittings you will be including. In order to ensure the best possible outcome, you need to ensure you have an accurate measured building survey to assist in your refurbishment project.
Accurate Information
Measured building surveys provide you with accurate and detailed information regarding your buildings current layout and dimensions. This is important when it comes to planning any work for architects, contractors, and designers. When you know how the property is laid out, it makes renovation decisions much easier. You have information on where your existing walls, doorways, and floor levels are, with accurate and precise measurements you can trust. It reduces the risk of ordering the wrong materials, saving you money and ensuring your refurbishment project goes ahead as planned, and on time.
Structural Challenges
In most cases structural challenges are hidden, but a measured building survey can identify problems, such as non-standard wall thickness’s, unequal floor levels, and structural weaknesses. It ensures you can overcome any challenges before your refurbishment project starts, reducing the risk of unwelcome delays and extra costs. Measured building surveys also identify utility service positions, such as waste, water, heating, and power, enabling any renovations to work around these with ease.
Space Planning
When you refurbish your property, every inch of available space is used. With a measured building survey, it ensures that architects and designers have an accurate representation of the square footage of your property, knowing what and where spaces are, reducing the risk of wasted space. This ensures you enjoy functional spaces that meet your lifestyle needs.
Building Regulations
In the UK, any renovations or refurbishments must meet local building codes and regulations. Measured building surveys help you align the property layout with the regulations, ensuring your plans are submitted accurately and up to date. Measured biding surveys are worth the money, helping to streamline planning, design, and construction.
If you live in a conservation area or in a listed building, then you have stricter regulations to adhere to. Even the most simplest of refurbishments need to take certain factors into consideration, including room dimensions, entrance lengths, window positioning and more.
Reduce Delays and Costs
One of the major benefits of using a measured building survey for your refurbishment project is that you can save yourself money, while reducing delays. Without accurate data, problems can arise, costing you money and unwelcome delays. Having a measured building survey completed before any building work begins, ensures that these problems are identified and sorted, saving you money and time in the long run.
Conclusion
Measured building surveys are essential to any successful refurbishment project. They provide accurate details that help support decisions, reducing expensive mistakes, while ensuring your refurbishment goes ahead accurately and without unnecessary extra expenses. If you are considering a home refurbishment, contact the MB Survey Solutions team to carry out an accurate and precise measured building survey, helping you make informed decisions regarding your project.