Would it benefit us for me to be at home during the full structural survey for the buyers?

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The people who are buying our house have their mortgage comapany's surveyor/s coming around the week after next to do a full structural survey on the house.

I don't know whether it would benefit us for me to be here or not, to hand over certificates and guarantees or a structural surveyors letter confirming that the bay had moved a bit but was now sound/no longer moving, or that the woodworm treated floorboards was before our time and hadn't been an issue while we were here - stuff like that.

Or doesn't it work like that?!

I would - perhaps have all the certification etc out and ready just in case, and be unobtrusively available rather than breathing down his neck. The surveyor who did the survey on our last house for our buyers thought we didn't have mains smoke alarms on the top two floors, until I showed them to him.

Yes - that's the kind of thing I was worrying wondering about. Maybe I should be here. Just wasn't keen on seeing strangers poke my house about and didn't want to see them disect every crack ... I'd be convinced the sale would fall through in no time ... even though I know the house is basically in good order for it's age.

Hi, id definatly be there for it too, i bought my mums house from her recently so it was me who was in when the surveyor came round and im glad i was, half the stuff he wrote down i just explained to him what had actually happened, he throught we had dry rot and woodwork throughout the downstairs hall, until i explained the gaps in the floorboards were actually from where my hamster escaped when i was 7 and we had to rip up the floorboards to get him out! definatly be there, they walk round on their own but at least if tey have any questions at the end you can set them straight

They generally have a few questions that they like to ask (but don't expect them to give much away).

Okay - I'll make sure I'm there then. Thanks very much indeed.