not mine but it affected me
When buying our flat we went through all the normal rigmoral including getting the extensive surveyor's report done. All was well and good, we moved in pleased as punch with our new home...and then it happened, less than a month after we moved in.

Mould and fungal spores started to appear around the bath and through some of the knot holes in the floorboards in the kitchen.

Further inspection by professionals exposed at least a couple of years worth of dry rot, damp in the walls, rotted floorboards and so the list goes on.

The upshot of this is that the surveyor hadn't done his job properly and on second inspection from the same company but a different inspector (we refused to let the first one enter our house) revealed all the problems in their full glory.

We had to move out for 2 months while the back of the flat was knocked down and rebuilt and re-decorated.

The cost of the report £750. The cost of the repairs including living out of home expenses for 2 months and a couple of return tickets to Australia thrown in to "help with the pain" £25,000.

All the guy had to do was "his job" for the hour he was supposed to and none of this would have happened. Instead he breezed around the place for 15 minutes with his eyes closed at a
cost to the company he worked for of £1,666 for every minute he spent in the flat.
( bacon and egg roll is going to be big downunder, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 3:46, 3 replies)

You lucky bastard
In Canada, the only thing the company would've been liable for is the cost of the initial inspection.
(tuqueboy has been in a medically -induced coma since, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 4:59, closed)

UK
are you in the UK? Youre not liable if he fucked up. Sue the fucker. I did a few years back - similar reasons.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 8:30, closed)

tricky one
We are in the UK, I think legally we were only entitled to the cost of the survey, and we weren't really in a financial position to obtain expensive legal advice as we had just bought the house.

It's amazing what a few stern letters and some persistence will do though.

The other part of this was that we had to have another survey due to changing the mortgage and despite our protest to the lender the same company came round.
( bacon and egg roll is going to be big downunder, Mon 29 Oct 2007, 5:06, closed)