Mr Beezer, who later joined forces with Tarmac Homes, built this development in Henleaze. (They later became part of Wimpey – We Import More Paddy’s Every Year). The houses do not change hands very often because they are very popular and having seen this I now see why! The property here was well maintained and up together rather like the house my Client is selling. There are no essential repairs. It has good quality double glazing and an enviable remote controlled roller shutter door to it’s garage. It does have a couple of drawbacks – there is no ground floor cloakroom that would be difficult to introduce and the road is a little bit busy. That aside, I hope my Client will be very happy in Henleaze…   more »

I was asked to look at a converted hotel, or to be precise what is now called a 'duplex' – American slang for a maisonette – in this former hotel. It was being sold 'off-plan', a bit unusual these days, so the conversion work was - work in progress. I was met by Jobsworth, the site agent, who insisted that I wear a high visibility jacket, even though I was nowhere near a motorway and a hard hat, which I gladly accepted (as having once had a scaffold plank fall on me, but I lived to tell the tale as I was wearing such a hard hat). I was accompanied around as if I had never been on a building site before, though why I am still unsure. I wanted to look at the roof, it was an inverted ridge roof, 'V' – shaped in section and so I said that I would go out of the skylight. I had ladders with me and I would place them on the three adjoining scaffold planks. NO – you couldn't possibly do that! “We will be bringing a 'cherry-picker' to gain access to the roof for the final inspection” What on earth do these people think that surveyors do when in a house on their own, have a cherry-picker in tow? I tried to persuade the site manager, but it was more than his jobs worth...   more »