I'm just after some advice for my son. Him and his girlfriend moved into their house in August 2018. They had a full structural survey done. They have problems with a roof leak and a roofer has been out a couple of times to rectify this but with no success.
This week the builder came out to replace some tiles. The roofers started trying to remove tiles and found that the tiles had been put on the battens, with no roofing felt underneath, gaps had been filled with expanding foam. The roofer said if they had gone through another winter then the roof would likely have collapsed because the struts and battens are rotten.
Upshot is that they are now having to pay for a complete new roof!
I'm sure this should have been picked up in the survey, the report does state that they "have not made any exploratory holes so cannot confirm that all hidden parts are free from defects", but surely if a surveyor saw expanding foam in the roof, they would investigate further, or should have pointed it out in the survey, so that my son could have asked for further investigations to be done (which obviously he would have paid for)?
If not I suppose it's an expensive lesson learned, but is there any action they can take against the surveyor, otherwise what is the point in spending ££s on a structural survey when they can just absolve themselves of any blame?
Would really appreciate some advice!