Maintaining Your Property

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This section of the website gives you further information about how to look after your property. It explains what you need to consider before embarking on any work, and when necessary how to obtain expert advice.

It includes advice on what surveys you may need, and practical guidance about maintaining and repairing an older house.

Historic properties give distinctiveness, meaning and quality to the places where we live, work and visit and make an important contribution to our quality of life and sense of place. But they do need to be carefully looked after. 

Understand Your Property

Looking after, managing or making changes to an older property requires a good understanding of the building so that no unnecessary damage is caused.

Understand your property

Finding Professional Help

A number of professionals can help you plan and carry out work to an old building, from architects and building surveyors to structural engineers and quantity surveyors.

Finding professional help

Maintenance & Repair

Regular inspection and maintenance will help to keep a building in good condition, preventing or reducing the need for repair or major and expensive work.

Maintenance and repair