Andrew Mawson wrote:

It really annoys me that the buyers have paid very significant money
for a document full of factual errors and yet covered in the usual
escape clauses regarding what he cannot see to the extent that it is a
worthless piece of paper.

I have friends who paid for a "homebuyers" survey on a house they ended
up buying. The report said there was mains gas conencted to the house.
When they came to move in their gas cooker, there was nowhere to
connect to. No gas pipes. When they asked Transco they confirmed the
nearest gas pipe was 200m away. Complained to surveyor. He pointed to
some caveat or other... upshot is the survey was wrong but there's
nothing that our friends can do about it. I would never get a survey
again, other than a valuation. (And then only for the benefit of the
bank)

Jon.