Survey costs
An ordinary house-survey quote arrived for a park home. What inspection, and therefore what cost conversation, has that quote skipped?
It has skipped the chassis and the skirt, so the cost conversation about those parts has not started. An ordinary house-survey quote is drawn up for a house. A park home is not a PRC, Airey, Cornish or BISF house. A standard quote can miss the chassis and the skirt, and it does not read the pitch agreement. Until someone is instructed to inspect those parts, you do not have a price for that inspection, and you should not pretend the house quote included it.
Last reviewed 24 October 2026. Written for buyers in England and Wales unless this answer says otherwise. No named surveyor has signed this page. It is general guidance, not a report on your house, and not legal advice.
What is the fuller explanation?
House-survey levels describe houses: conventional homes, older fabric, alterations, major works. They are the wrong template to drop onto a park home without a frank talk about what will not be opened and what the surveyor does not advise on. The chassis and the skirt are the parts a house quote most easily forgets, and they are exactly the parts a buyer cannot see from a stroll around the decking. The pitch agreement is a document, not a crack in a wall. The survey fee you were offered, if it is a house fee, has not bought a reading of that agreement and has not bought a specialist look at the steel and the supports.
Go back to the firm and ask, in writing, whether the quote includes the chassis, the skirt and the means of support, and say plainly that you do not expect them to interpret the pitch agreement. If they exclude those items, the cost conversation you still need is with someone who will include them, or a decision to proceed knowing they are uninspected. Do not invent site-licence rules to fill the gap, and do not convert the house quote into a park-home quote by wishing. There is no national tariff that upgrades the wrong product into the right one for free.
What should you ask your surveyor?
- Does this quote include the chassis and the skirt, or only a house inspection?
- Will you read the pitch agreement?
- What would have to change in the instruction before those parts are included?
What are the typical next steps?
- Tell the firm this is a park home, not a house.
- Ask whether chassis and skirt are inside the quote.
- Leave the pitch agreement to the papers, not the survey.
Costs vary with the building and with who you instruct. Where this page does not cite a published figure, ask the surveyor, a relevant specialist, or your solicitor for a written quote. Do not treat a forum average as the price.
Also asked about this
If the quote mentions the porch, has the chassis been included?
Not unless it says so. A house-style quote can list visible extras and still skip the chassis and the skirt.
Is a park home priced as if it were a concrete non-standard house?
No. It is not a PRC, Airey, Cornish or BISF house. Do not reuse that quote as if it were.