Snagging surveys in Salford

Salford has more high-rise new build than anywhere else in the North West outside Manchester city centre. MediaCity, Salford Quays and the Adelphi towers are apartment inspections, and apartment defects are rarely the ones homeowners expect.

In towers we most often log unbalanced or noisy MVHR units, balcony drainage that ponds, glazing seals with gaps at the head, and communal-to-private junction finishes left incomplete. Because you can't reach the facade, thermal imaging from inside is the practical way to prove cold bridging around window frames.

Out in Worsley, Boothstown, Walkden, Eccles and Monton the work is conventional family housing, where roof, insulation and drainage defects dominate the list.

Apartment and high-rise inspections a speciality.