Know what you’re buying, before you sign
A technical audit of a home’s engineering systems before a purchase or a new-build handover: electrics, networks, security, cameras, automation, multimedia and climate, tested in operation and written up in a report you can act on.
A viewing shows you the architecture, the light, the view. It doesn’t show you the reserve in the electrical panel, the age of the climate system or what actually happens when the automation is asked to do something. Those answers tend to arrive in the first months of ownership, as invoices. At a new-build handover the stakes are the same: what’s found before the final signature is documented and passed to the right people, so it can be dealt with earlier. And if you’re buying from abroad, you may be deciding from a video call and an agent’s word.
What’s included
- Electrical panels and loads: reserve, protection, signs of overheating, how the board matches what the house has become.
- Networks and Wi-Fi: coverage and speed measured room by room, and the cabling behind them.
- Security and cameras: alarm, sensors, access control and CCTV, tested in operation.
- Automation and multimedia: what the system actually controls, who holds the administrator passwords, whether anyone can service it at all.
- Climate: operating modes checked, temperatures measured at the air outlets.
- A written report with photographs: what works and what doesn’t, where the weak points are and what repairs would roughly cost.
Outbuildings, garden systems and the guest house can be included in the audit.
How we work
- Book – send the address, the area and the situation: purchase or handover. We’ll agree the visit date with you and confirm the exact price.
- Inspect – an engineer tests the systems in operation, with measurements: from two to three hours on site, and a large property can take several days.
- Report – within three days, ready to read and to act on.
- Debrief – you go through it with the engineer: what’s critical, what can wait, what to do next.
A typical picture from audits of homes like this.
Two weeks before the signing, an engineer spends a morning in the house. By Friday you’re reading the report: the climate system in the guest wing can’t hold its set temperature, the panel is overloaded, with no reserve for the pool heating, the automation hasn’t been serviced since it was installed and half the garden has no network at all. You still buy the house. You buy it knowing what it needs, and at a price that reflects it.
Works with the rest
An audit stands on its own. But if you’d rather hand the findings to one team, we fix what we found ourselves: network, security, automation, climate coordination. And if your house is still on the architect’s screen, the same engineers plan its systems before the walls close, so there’s nothing for a future audit to find.
Buy the house, and know what it needs
Send the address and the area: we’ll agree the visit date with you and confirm the exact price. Want to see what you’d receive first? Ask for a sample report.
