I wouldn’t video that feels invasive to me. Is the floor plan on the EA details? Answering from a sellers point of view, I had woman view our last house who got me to measure from door to window. She needed to know whether her large sofa would fit. Barmy if you love a house surely you buy furniture to fit. Anyway she didn’t put an offer in.
From the buying point of view ask lots of question, particularly have owners done any DIY. Flush the toilets , turn the taps. Open the doors etc.
Our house looked good but when we moved in there was so much wrong with it.
The saucepan on the working top hid the damaged area of work top.
We were shown the garden via the kitchen door. Turns out the patio door was jammed shut.
I asked did the property have a tv aerial. They truthfully answered yes. What I should have asked was did it work? Readers it did not.
The toilet down stairs had an airlock. The noise was horrendous but was a minor fix. The DIY installed bathroom toilet soil pipe connection back to front. That was an expensive plumbers bill.
The DIY installed kitchen bloody dangerous. Gas hob not correctly connected. Call out to British Gas sorted that.
The second hand gas fire they fitted again dangerous. British Gas tapped it off.
Our surveyor flagged up house needed rewiring. Our electrician discovered wiring going diagonally across a wall in the kitchen. The loft light switch was on the landing, that should have been in the loft itself.
Shortly after moving in a piece of cast iron guttering fell narrowly missing myself and 16 month old daughter. It would have killed her had it hit her. That could not have been foreseen but pretty scary.
Despite the problems, we’ve lived in this house more than 20 years now.