worried about survey of my house

[mumofelise]

my house is to be surveyed tommorow and i am a bit worried. there is a wee bit of damp around the window and the wooden ledge. i have gave it a good clean but still worried. does the surveyor look at this, if it only minor would it be mentioned and would it affect the value? thanks in advance.

How serious it is would depend on where the damp came from. Rising damp (ie coming up the wall) may be a bigger problem than say damp from a leaky window as it may indicate a problem with the damp course.

the only damp is around the window, i think it is poor ventilation .

In my experience, surveyors find it hard to tell their a**e from their elbow.

We had a survey done that diagnosed rising damp. We knew that it was our neighbour who had recently had a leaky shower, and the party wall had got soaked. There had never been any rising damp. It is an absolute scandal that mortgages get decided on the sole word of surveyors, who seem ready to write anything, and don't care if it is true or not. The bank accepted the surveyor's word as gospel truth, and the fact that we knew it was rubbish, and our neighbour was ready to say the truth as well, counted for nothing.

They have a little device that detects damp I think.

That sort of damp is easily remedied and wouldn't cost a huge amount.

do they look for damp as a matter of course? i can't believe the problem only started when i moved in and was not mentioned it my survey. how do they come to the figure, are they tipped off my the estate agent?

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If its serious problem they point it out so that who ever is buying can decide what to do - ie knock money off the house price to fix it. When we sold our house - we had one wall that was very damp. Caused by a leaking gutter, splashing back & hitting the wall (so the surveyor decided). We agreed to fix the gutter before seling - only cost about £30.

If its just around the window - its very minor & can be easily fixed at no great cost I should imagine