TECHNICAL BULLETIN
ISSUE 28
APRIL 2018
PITCHED FIBRE DRAINS PART 2
HOW AND WHEN TO REPORT RICS’S PITCHED FIBRE DRAIN PRODUCTS PHIL PARNHAM DIRECTOR, BLUEBOX PARTNERS
Introduction
RICS licensed Home Survey products for their clients.
Phil Parnham, director of BlueBox Partners, follows on from the pitch fibre drain article in Issue 27 of the Technical Bulletin with this feature focusing on how the same issues should be reported in RICS’s Home Survey products. Our previous feature on pitch fibre drains focused on reporting within Sava’s Home Condition Survey format. To get a complete picture, we recommend you download both issues.
The third document represents best practice guidelines endorsed by the RICS but is not mandatory. It is aimed at RICS members who provide their own survey products outside of the licensed Home Surveys brand. Review of duties in level two and level three products Please note, ‘level two’; denotes HomeBuyer Report (HBR) with and without a valuation or equivalents and ‘level three’ to Building Surveys (BS) or equivalents.
RICS Home Surveys standards The duties of practitioners regarding underground drains are described in the relevant practice notes, including:
Inspection of drainage systems – level two products
■■RICS HomeBuyer Report (Survey only), Professional Statement (PS), 1st edition 2016 ■■RICS Building survey, 1st edition Practice Note (PN), 2012. ■■Surveys of Residential Property, Professional Guidance, 3rd edition, May 2016 reissue. RICS have changed the name of their standards over the last few years, and the first two publications listed above are mandatory for members who are providing
The PS and GN are broadly similar. For example, under G6 (Drainage) of the HBR PS, it states:
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Chambers (except in the case of flats) are visually inspected from ground level where it is safe and reasonable for the surveyor to lift the cover(s)
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