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If you have a commercial property, whether it is freehold or leasehold then sooner or later you may get involved with dilapidation claims. Appropriate independent professional advice should be paid for before making such a decision. The contents of the web site are for general information only and are not intended to be relied upon for specific or general decisions. We hope you found the article of use and if you have any experiences that you feel should be added to this article that would benefit others, or you feel that some of the information that we have put is wrong then please do not hesitate to contact us (we are only human). Please free phone us on 08 for a friendly chat with one of our surveyors. We recommend that should you decide to have a building survey with us you meet us at the property during the survey to discuss further any issues such as cracking you have and also for us to show you what we have found. Meet our building surveyor at the property It certainly doesn't take use and abuse in the same way. This was great to hear from a young surveyor who noticed, even in his short time of surveying of around three years, that modern plaster has to be looked after a lot more than older plaster. We were quite surprised recently when one of our trainee surveyors said to us that they had noticed how some of the modern houses in the properties that we manage were not lasting as long as some of the older properties that were plastered in the older style lime plaster. Does modern plaster last as well as old plaster?

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