John Maguire

The first independent

chartered building surveyor?

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Independent Building Surveyors

We are Independent Building Surveyors and Structural Engineers. We will help you to buy the right building. By the right building we mean one that doesn't have any problems, or if it does have any problems you know about them before you buy it and negotiate based upon this and buy the building with your eyes wide open.

We carry out all sorts of other work, such as independent valuations, engineer's reports and defects reports, as well as home buyers reports. We are more than happy to chat with you, please free phone us on 0800 298 5424 for a friendly chat with a surveyor.

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John Maguire, early Chartered Surveyor for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

John Maguire qualified as a general practice surveyor before the Building Surveying Division existed.

RICS History

RICS is short for of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. As well as being actively involved with the RICS for many, many, many years, including being an APC Examiner (assessment of professional competence) and TPC Examiner (test and professional confidence) he has also been past Chairman of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire areas of the RICS, commonly known as Bucks, Beds and Herts.

Building Surveyor through and through

John Maguire has always been involved in building surveying work and has worked over the years in an employed status for the Open University and for London Brick, or Hanson, Littlewoods, Local Authorities, and also as a Developer. He has now for many, many years been working as an independent chartered building surveyor/problem solver/arbitrator.

An early computer user

John Maguire was an early computer user and has remained a gadget person ever since. He had one of the earliest computers and most recently has been using drone technology (flying miniature helicopters with cameras) to deal with party wall disputes.

He is of course more than happy to help you with any of your party wall disputes, or indeed your disputes more generally.

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Party Walls and the Pyramus and Thisbe Club

John Maguire is a long serving member member of the Pyramus and Thisbe Club. This relates to all things to do with party walls.

Where does the name Pyramus and Thisbe come from?

The name Pyramus and Thisbe relates to two prominent characters in Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream who were two lovers separated by a wall and the dispute between the two sides.

Please visit their website at partywalls.org.uk

Pyramus and Thisbe Green Book

This book is referred to as The Green Book and is considered to be the Bible of books relating to Party Walls matters.

Please see our article:

Pyramus and Thisbe Club Green Book

Health and Safety

John Maguire has had an interest in health and safety for many years and has been a long standing member of the Association for Project Safety (APS)

Chartered Arbitrator

We believe John Maguire is a Chartered Arbitrator. A chartered arbitrator is an impartial person who mediates between with both sides of a dispute between a chartered surveyor and client.

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How important is the word independent when buying your house?

From an independent building surveying point of view it means that you have at last got someone to act specifically for you. As you may or may not be aware, many people within the property professions are inter-related, such as estate agents that own surveyors and also own solicitors as well as of course the mortgage and insurance companies who are all owned by the same people.

John Maguire can identify a brick from 100 yards away!

John Maguire can't quite spot what type of brick it is from 100 yards away but if he gets close to the building he is generally very good at identifying where the brick came from and most importantly the properties of that brick and the problems associated with it.

We would refer you to the following articles:

Deteriorating brickwork and cement repointing

Brickwork types and brickwork bonds

Brickwork problems

Party Walls

Advice on Disputes

We have numerous other articles specific to building surveys and problems that occur with buildings. Please peruse our website at: 1stassociated.com

Independent Surveyors

If you truly do want an independent expert opinion from an independent building surveyor with regard to building surveys, structural surveys, engineers reports, specific defects reports, or any other property matters please contact 0800 298 5424 for a surveyor to give you a call back.

Commercial Property Surveyors

John Maguire has also dealt with commercial properties. As mentioned, he worked for the Open University and for London Brick, or Hanson, and Littlewoods and local authorities. If you have a commercial property, be it leasehold or freehold, then you may wish to look at our Dilapidations Website at www.DilapsHelp.com and for Disputes go to our Disputes Help site www.DisputesHelp.com .

Our independent building surveyors can help you

An Independent Building Surveyor is completely impartial and does not work for banks, building societies, or any form of mortgage lender. The surveyor will give you advice and guidance on any property problems he finds, solutions and approximate costs for the work.

Our independent building surveyors can help you

An Independent Building Surveyor is completely impartial and does not work for banks, building societies, or any form of mortgage lender. The surveyor will give you advice and guidance on any property problems he finds, solutions and approximate costs for the work.

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Timber ceilings

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Sketch of timber ceilings

We use circles and ovals in our survey reports

The circles and ovals we use in our survey reports emphasise any problems or potential problems we find at the property during our survey. Feedback from clients has been that these circles and ovals help them to clearly understand what we are talking about within a particular surveying sketch or photograph.

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Sketch of a raking crack in brickwork

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We hope you found the article of use and if you have any experiences that you feel should be added to this article that would benefit others, or you feel that some of the information that we have put is wrong then please do not hesitate to contact us (we are only human).

Please feel free to have a look at our website to see for yourself the quality of our website, articles and our Building Survey reports. We pride ourselves on our professional standard and easy to read reports which we have been carrying out for many years on every age, type and style of property across the UK .

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