MB Design & Surveyors Limited

15/05/2023

Hi All, Just put a blog on the website (link below) expressing concern that only 20% of UK home buyers are having professional building surveys carried out.

Very concerning when you consider the relatively small cost of a building survey against the amount you are spending out on a home.

Link is below :

Recent online articles suggest that only 20% of home purchasers are having professional building surveys carried out. Is this sensible?

24/02/2022

MB Design and Surveyors Ltd : Our preferred customers and jobs.

What are our preferred customers and jobs?

We felt we needed to do this post to clarify, as our website does show all of the different services we are capable of and this might be confusing to some potential clients and might perhaps give us a more corporate “face” than the actual real people George and Myself actually are.

There are basically 2 sides to our company : The Architectural Drawings side and The Building Regulations side.

So to clarify , on the architectural drawing side of things :

Our preferred type of customer are normal homeowners (i.e. everyday people) looking to do extensions and/or loft conversions (small or big they are all welcome) to their home requiring drawings to make planning/certificate of lawfulness applications or building regulations application plans.

We enjoy taking a brief and trying to give the customer what they want, but also giving them the benefit of our input and guidance as to what we feel would provide the best chance of planning success.
We also enjoy finding practical solutions to satisfy building regulations requirements for the various quirky scenarios which need addressing when dealing with existing buildings.

So to clarify on the Building Surveying side of things :

We prefer to carry out detailed pre purchase residential building surveys for people buying houses, bungalows or flats.
We have a reputation for being thorough and are told we have a good way of putting things into the correct context for customers to make more rationalised purchasing decisions.

Who won’t we work for :
Corporate or Speculative Property Developers.

Hope this helps you all and puts your mind at rest that its ok to call us to for a chat/fee proposal for any residential job even if its a very small one.

Please don’t think of us as corporate giants, because that’s honestly not what we are and we don’t really want to be percieved that way.

Website changes are on way to try to reflect better what we are actually trying to be and achieve.

Kindest regards
Mike Brebner of MB Design and Surveyors Ltd.

09/11/2021

Just put a new video on youtube regarding what you can do using pd rights for single storey extension.

Enjoy :) let me know if the quality is any better now on the youtube comments as im using a new lens.

Regards

Mike

This video goes over the Permitted Development rules for Single Storey Extensions under the General Permitted Development Order GPDO. ...

01/11/2021

Check out our latest video on Permitted Development rights.

Wondering if you can just build an extension on a UK house/bungalow under Permitted Development?

Don't just assume you can.

of doing an extension to a UK house or bungalow using PD rights?Don't just assume you can.Disclaimer : Not a formal consultation and strictly ...

18/10/2021

As part of our info short vids we've just posted this one still about loft conversions but about an aspect often overlooked.

You need to consider where the stairs might go and how much existing space might be lost as a result when weighing up whether to convert or not.

Enjoy :

This is a short video about an aspect of loft conversions that people tend to forget about when caught up in the excitement of visualising what they are goin...

12/10/2021

Here is our latest info on working out whether a residential loft is suitable for conversion bearing in mind headroom.

Ot might help someone who is thinking of maybe doing a loft conversion.

After watching this you also wish to check out our other on loft conversion which hopfully helps you to roughly work out how much it might cost.

This video might be for you if you were wondering what sort of maximum headroom you might end up with if you converted your loftspace.Mike gives you a quick ...

06/10/2021

How much does it cost roughly for a loft conversion in Uk Ball Park figure Please?

This gets asked a lot , so mike tries to give you a way to work out a rough figure for yourselves, hope it helps you out.

Kindest regards Mike.

See below : ...

Mike tries to give you a rough and ready way to get a ball park budget figure for a potential loft conversion.You should always obtain several competitve quo...

05/10/2021

Ever wondered roughly how much it would cost for an extension to a house?, you might want to watch our video which gives you a method to try to work out a rough ballpark.

Mike gives a rough and ready way you might use to get a ballpark rough idea figure of how much a uk house extension might cost very approximately.You should ...