RICS Home Survey, decoded
Your survey, in plain English.
A Home Survey is written for the file, not for a Sunday evening. We read Level 1, 2 and 3 reports, triage every finding, and show you the exact sentence it came from. Calmly.
We are not your surveyor. We explain their words. We do not value the house, and we will not tell you it is fine if the report does not. New to the ratings? Read the guides or the question bank.
We read the report
PDF or photos. We extract the ratings, the caveats, and every 'further investigation' — and we show you what we found before we explain it.
We triage, we don't dramatise
Urgent, negotiate, budget, monitor, or leave it. Each card quotes the surveyor, then says what that usually means in ordinary English.
You get questions to take back
A short list for your surveyor, grounded in their own pages. If we are unsure, we say so and send you back to them.
See it on a real-shaped report
These are synthetic RICS-style reports, written so you can try the product without uploading anything personal. One is ordinary. One is not.
42 Maple Terrace, Bristol
A late-Victorian terrace. The report looks stern about the roof. Most of the rest is ordinary maintenance.
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The Old Rectory, Norfolk
A Level 3 building survey on a tired period house. Several rating 3s. This is not a 'looks worse than it is' report.
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Flat 4, Harbour View, Brighton
A Level 1 condition report on a leasehold flat. Plenty of 'not inspected'. The silence is the point.
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Another nineteen synthetic reports sit in the accuracy harness, with gold labels for ratings, triage, and citations.
A finding, as you will see it
The rear roof is not keeping the weather out. Several slates have slipped, two are cracked, and the surveyor could see daylight from the loft.
Quoted from the report, then explained. Click through on any sample to highlight the original sentence.
How we make money
The decode and the renegotiation pack are free. If you ask, we can pass one finding to a matching trade — a roofer, a damp specialist, an electrician, and so on. They may pay us a referral fee if you go on to use them. That fee is not added to their quote. We do not sell a list of your details, and we do not send them the survey file. Conveyancing, mortgage and insurance introductions stay switched off. Mortgage and insurance, if they ever start, would only be via an FCA-authorised firm, with their own consent screen.
If the report is grim
We will not tell you it looks worse than it is unless the surveyor’s own words support a milder reading. The Old Rectory sample is there so you can see us not doing that.
Pricing, plainly