Our mortgage offer included a free valuation so we found it would be cheaper to employ our own RICS surveyor to do a home buyers survey separately for ourselves. But how do we find a good one?! It's a house built in 1978 so still in good nick so it shouldn't be a big complicated thing, but I would like to have a bit of personal contact with the surveyor afterwards. When we bought our current house the survey comments were so cryptic and littered with spelling mistakes but despite trying for days I could not get the surveyor (chosen by the mortgage company) onn the phone to explain what the hell he was going on about.
Is there a checkatrade type site for surveyors?! Or does anyone have a recommendation for a surveyor in Surrey (Woking)?!