Buying a house is probably the biggest single investment you make in life. Many buyers fail to carry out a detailed inspection and end up costing themselves thousands of pounds. All of this can be avoided with a correct inspection.
Our Pre Purchase Checklist guides you through the inspection. It is based on real experience and is an easy to follow printable pdf to be used during viewing. Checkpoints such as failed windows drainage are highlighted and there are room by room lists on what to look out for during the house viewing.
A house purchase is stressful and risky even for the experienced purchaser and at least one detailed inspection should be carried out. Our checklist gives you, the prospective home buyer, a guide on what to investigate during the viewing. The house viewing should be used to critically judge the property looking for faults and later having the repair costs assessed so that you can get a house price discount based on your inspection. The checks are easy to understand and you do not have to be a chartered surveyor or engineer to carry them out.
When you view a property, pressure builds up as estate agents urge you forward as quickly as possible to buy and you end up not doing a proper inspection. You arrive unprepared and leave forgetting half the things you should check.
Later you discover the dripping tap you barely noticed during the rush turns out to have caused dampness in a wall and the plaster must be replaced...£££s out of your pocket that demands needs immediate action!
That shower was never checked ... the drain was leaking and the flooring is rotten...££££s - real events that add stress and cost!
All of this is avoidable if you carry out the basic inspection yourself. After your inspection, you can decide if you want to go further and have structural or electrical surveys carried out. These surveys do NOT check the items in our Checklists so you are leaving yourself exposed to problems if an initial detailed inspection is not carried out!
If this is your first home, read our page about why you should have a First-time buyer house inspection checklist.
If you are a house seller preparing your property for sale, we have a Sellers Inspection Checklist at House Sellers Checklist .co.uk
A house purchase is stressful and risky even for the experienced purchaser and at least one detailed inspection should be carried out. Our checklist gives you, the prospective home buyer, a guide on what to investigate during the viewing. The house viewing should be used to critically judge the property looking for faults and later having the repair costs assessed so that you can get a house price discount based on your inspection. The checks are easy to understand and you do NOT have to be a chartered surveyor or engineer to carry them out.
Take a look at Details of our UK house buyers checklist to get some further details on our check list.
