Land surveying: what to ask your prospective team
Land surveying is a highly complex field that takes a true professional to do the job properly. No two properties are the same, and so each individual survey requires a specialised approach to ensure that the professional takes a fully accurate picture of your property’s land, space, boundaries, geographical features and more!
With this in mind, it’s natural to have a few questions for your prospective team regarding what they can do for your property.
Here are some of those questions:
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What will you do for my property?
The best land surveyors in the business will provide the required measurements, design, plan, calculations and documentation you need for your spatial report. These professionals utilise state of the art, industry-specific technology to take an accurate analysis of your property’s geographical features, considering everything from boundaries to gradients and land formations.
When it comes to conducting this analysis for your property, you can then go on to the documentation for selling the property, renting out the property for private or commercial use as well as conducting works on the property. This makes it a highly valuable service to enlist for your property, as you will have a greater idea of your geographical and spatial limitations before you sell, lease or start any work.
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What sort of survey do I need?
Well, it all depends on your property’s planned application. For example, you might be in the middle of a boundary dispute, in which your neighbour is adamant that you are using a part of the property that belongs to their side of said property.
If you are sure that the property is, in fact, yours, you can enlist a survey team to map out the boundaries and help resolve the dispute using cold, hard factual evidence, thus saving any continually messy disagreement.
You may also need the survey to see whether it is suitable to build in a particular location on your land, ensuring that there isn’t a gradient or particular geographical feature that may inhibit the safe and smooth construction of a particular building.
Regardless of your needs, simply ask your prospective team and they will be able to figure out exactly what kind of survey you need for your property!
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Are you a licensed team?
The prospective team should be fully licensed to provide this service under the Surveyors Board of South Australia. However, if you’re convinced that the team is registered under the board just because they tell you they are, you can simply contact the board and ask whether that team is, in fact, accredited to provide this vital service in South Australia.
After all, this is a highly complex field, and you want to be sure you are enlisting proper professionals, and not the kind of people who have know idea what they’re doing on a dodgy licence!
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When can you get started?
Because you might have a pressing matter at hand (i.e. business investment) and require the evaluation to ensure you can get started or resolve whatever matter is at hand! Therefore, you don’t want to sit around waiting for what feels like ages as you await the team to come and provide their analysis - you want them to get started ASAP.
The right team will be able to come out to your property and provide the evaluation without months of notice - so contact them today to find if they are the right team for your surveying needs!
