3床的房舍。烟囱在一楼地面和25年前。烟囱栈在阁楼。建议,我们需要一个钢梁插入,所谓结构工程公司来评估阁楼和烟囱,也要求进行测量,并提供计算一般结构检查。他们派了一个结构性技师是助理结构工程师学会的成员,但一个合格的特许测量师(但在预订告诉我们他们将派遣一名工程师!)阁楼是空的,你可以站在地板,灯光,所以非常容易获得一切。技术员在阁楼里花了大约5分钟,看了看四周,踢烟囱附近的支持和拍了一些照片。他说我们绝对需要一个钢梁。然后他走出阁楼,看着下面的地板上。我们想知道如果墙壁和地板结构安全。 The room was empty, no furniture, easy to lift carpet and we asked him to check and offered to lift the carpet for him. He insisted it was not necessary – we did it anyway as it was necessary to ascertain the old position of the chimney, and had to prompt him as to the location of the old chimney and the cement in the floor, which he did not notice. After a brief 5 minute look downstairs he wanted to leave, at which point i reminded him about the calculations and measurements, as we had not seen him measure anything or use any tools at all or take any notes – he only took a few pictures. He was very reluctant to do the measurements, and gave several reasons as to why he could not do them. 1. he was not instructed by the office he needed to – so we phoned the office as this is the service we had clearly booked and asked for, and 2. he was only an associate member of the ISE and so not insured to do the job. Whilst we were on the phone to the company’s customer helpline the technician proceeded to take only two measurements of the main load bearing wall in the living room user a laser device and then said he had to leave. After this, we finally got a call back from the company offices who called the technician. They called us back and assured us that he took all the measurements needed for calculating the dimensions etc of the steel beam. I mentioned that he did not take measurements in the loft but was told maybe he did not need to do this. Myself and 2 others were present and we did not see the technician take a single measurement in the loft, so I am quite worried about what measurements he is going to present to the engineer for calculation. How will I know it is safe if he didn’t even measure anything in the loft? Does anyone know what should have happened if this was done properly? Who should do the measurements? What do they measure? What tools are used and how long should it take in the loft? And who is qualified to do such a brief? What should I do as we will be invoiced for a service we did not book!