Chartered surveyors in North Wales

Nearly a quarter of the homes around the towns we cover in North Wales were built before 1900, the largest single era here, and in the slate and upland towns it is most of the stock: more than three quarters in Blaenau Ffestiniog and around half in Betws-y-Coed, Bala and Llanrwst. Those are solid stone walls under slate roofs, built to let water out rather than keep it out, so we look closely at damp, at pointing, and at any modern render or coating that may stop a wall drying. The east of the region is different work. Deeside, Flint, Mold and Holywell sit over the Flintshire Coalfield and Wrexham over the Denbighshire Coalfield, and their housing leans post-war, so mining history and the condition of that generation’s roofs, windows and cavity walls come to the front. On the coast, Llandudno and Colwyn Bay keep a large Victorian and Edwardian core facing the Irish Sea, where exposed elevations and joinery take the weather. Flood risk in Wales is mapped by Natural Resources Wales rather than the Environment Agency, and that is the map we check.

Chris Bloor MRICS · CJ Bloor Property Consultants