When you drive down Falcondale Road in Westbury on Trym, how often do you think that in the 1920s you would have been driving through farmland. And that is where I was today in farmland well, to be strictly truthful in a house built in the 1930s on land that was once a farm. It was on a tight corner plot, made tighter by the fact that it and its neighbour at right angles to it had each build extensions so it is all a little bit cramped. ‘My’ house had been extended possibly shortly after it was built and was then extended twice at later dates to the rear. The main problem was the fact that the underside of all the rafters and batens and the tiles had been sprayed with foam, which frankly does nothing for the property and possibly even casts a shadow on its value. I have obviously pointed this out to my Client but I and other surveyors do not like this foam. Had Farmer Giles been around, there is no doubt he would have told the salesman where to put his foam, in no uncertain terms, and it wouldn't have been in the roof space…   more »