A numbered register
Every window identified by block, floor and elevation, so that the survey, the photographs, the tender and the eventual invoices all refer to the same opening.
For managing agents
Window condition surveys for managing agents
Every window on record before the works are scoped, in a register and schedule that leaseholders and contractors can both work from.
Managing a listed or period block means being responsible for a lot of windows. A window condition survey gives you a numbered record of every one, its condition and urgency, and a clear repair-or-replace plan you can consult leaseholders on and put out to tender. We survey occupied blocks and estates of several hundred windows.
The situation
Why does a managing agent need a window condition survey?
A window condition survey gives you an independent record of what every window needs before you consult leaseholders or go out to tender. Without one, works tend to be scoped from a contractor’s own assessment, and that is a difficult position to consult from, because leaseholders are entitled to ask why a window is being replaced rather than repaired and the answer needs to exist in writing before the question is asked.
A survey also settles the order of work. Blocks rarely need everything done at once, and knowing which windows are urgent and which can wait is what turns one large figure into a programme that can be staged across budget years.
What we do
What you get from us
Urgency and reasoning
Each window graded urgent, recommended or monitor, with the reasons set out, so the consultation can explain why as well as what.
A document that prices
A summary schedule and totals that a contractor can price from directly, rather than a report that needs interpreting before anyone can quote.
Questions
Common questions
Can you survey occupied blocks?
Yes, most of the blocks we survey are occupied. Access is arranged with you in advance, and where a flat cannot be entered we record that in the report rather than guessing at the condition.
Will the report support a leaseholder consultation?
Yes. It gives you the evidence a consultation assumes you already hold, which is what each window needs, why and how urgently, opening by opening, so leaseholders can be shown the reasoning rather than only the conclusion.
Do you quote for the works you recommend?
Not as part of the survey, because you are paying for the survey and the report and nothing else. If you would like a quote for the work afterwards, we can arrange one through the right business in The Barnsbury Group, but only if you ask us to.
What if the estate is too large to survey in full?
Then we would suggest starting with a representative sample survey, which looks at enough windows across every type and exposure to set the scope and budget before a full register is commissioned.
How is the report delivered?
As a PDF that is yours to keep, with the register, the photographs and the summary schedule in one document, and most clients pass it straight to their contractor or consultant.
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- Heritage Window Consultants Ltd
- Address
- London N1
- Enquiries
- 020 7164 6305