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What Are Elevation Surveys?

Elevation surveys provides details regarding the el3evation of your property. It is important when evaluating flood risks. It helps you understand and manage flood risks, helping architects work around flood prone areas, ensuring your project goes ahead as planned.

Elevation Surveys vs Land Surveys

It is important to understand the difference between and elevation survey and land survey, especially when making important property decisions. Elevation surveys prepared by land surveyors, provides detailed elevation information, regarding the lowest floor of your property. It assesses flood risk and is often required if you need flood insurance.

Land surveys, on the hand, can mark out boundaries and topographical details, but it doesn't focus on the elevation aspects of your property. If you need a land survey, you may want to double check if you need an elevation survey. Our MB Survey Solutions team will be able to direct you, ensuring you choose the right survey based on your project needs.

When Are Elevation Surveys Needed?

Deciding on whether you need an elevation survey is determined by your property circumstances. Elevation surveys are critical in high risk flood areas, or when seeking flood insurance. This survey assesses your property flood risk, often needed by insurance companies when calculating your premiums. Land surveys, on the other hand, are needed when buying, selling, or developing a plot of land. It helps reduce the risk of disputes with neighbours in the long run.

How Do I Get an Elevation Survey?

Getting an elevation survey is a straightforward process, but it does require a professional surveyor. MB Survey Solutions have over twenty five years combined experience providing clients in the UK with elevation surveys. We recommend you follow the steps below to determine if you need or how to get an elevation survey:

• Is there already an elevation survey on file?
• Contact MB Survey Solutions to carry out your elevation survey
• Set an appointment for the survey on your property
• Review the completed survey

The Importance of Elevation Surveys

When faced with property decisions, having the right survey at hand can make all the difference. Elevation surveys focus on the elevation levels of your building. This also includes the lowest elevation point, along with building characteristics. This is important for properties located in high risk flood areas.

Your elevation survey should include:

• The survey
• Show the lowest elevation point of your property
• Determine flood risk
• Building characteristics related to flood risk

Who Uses Elevation Surveys?

Most property owners know that surveyors help establish property boundaries, or carry out measured building surveys, providing you with accurate measurements of your property. Elevation surveys are different, identifying risks associated with the elevation of your property.

These elevation surveys are used by:

• Architects and civil engineers when planning a new project
• Construction workers making improvements to your property
• Property agents when carrying out property transactions
• Lawyers when resolving disputes

Conclusion

Whether you want to refurbish your existing property or add an extension, it's important to ensure you have the right survey in your hand. Elevation surveys are essential when there is exterior renovations or refurbishments taking place. Elevation surveys provide a map of the structural façade of your property using 3D laser scanning. Our elevation surveys establish the shape, along with features, of the exterior of your property that may not show in sectional or floor plans.

If you live in a flood risk area or you want to renovate or refurbish the exterior of your property, contact MB Survey Solutions today to book your elevation survey.