hi all just joined to share experience with trying to purchase a trusteel mk11 house.found a house we liked , approached the woolwich with whom we already have our mortgage , was told that in order to be considered for a mortgage we would need a full building survey carried out by them (£850) which we agreed to, this showed up no problems and we thought great we are off and running, wrong, three weeks ago after scratching there heads they informed us we now need to arrange for a structual engineers report to be made on the house highlighting the major corrosion prone areas, this entailed asking the sellers permission fo the surveyor to remove one or two pieces of brickwork as this has to be intrusive so the framework is visible this was agreed with and report carried out ten days ago, it came back showing no signs of rust and the frame still has some of its red oxide and bitumen paint and the original grey paint . surveyor comented over the phone that it was as if it was built yesterday. so we now await the woolwich building society to make their decision on the mortgage, in retrospect in would have been cheaper to have the very basic valuation carried out as is the norm then had the structual engineers report done as this really does dig deeper, the report worked out at £635 all in and that included the tradesman cost to remove and make good afterwards the brickwork companies name is .structual engineers reports ltd. hope this post is off help to others in the same boat oops that should be house.
@Steelframe buyer
This guy quoted it as;
structural engineers reports ltd.