4 Projects Around the House Where You’ll Want a Land Surveyor’s Help

There are plenty of projects around your house or section that you can freely do on your own. While building a small shed, repaving your driveway or replanting the garden are usually fine DIY jobs, there are other, more complicated tasks that will certainly benefit from the specialist help from a qualified land surveyor.

Below are four projects where you’ll be glad you enlisted the help of a land surveyor. If you’re ready to get the ball rolling at your Wellington, Levin, Porirua or Kapiti Coast home, give Tararua Land Surveyors a ring today.

Installing a fence

While you don’t need a land surveyor to build a fence, it is a good idea to get in touch with one if you’re not 100 percent certain where your boundary starts and ends. Fencing is a worthwhile investment, but they’re costly. After spending your hard-earned money building a brand-new fence, you don’t want to discover your neighbour thinks you’ve encroached on their land. By using a land surveyor, you will be certain about your property’s edge and avoid re-installation fees or neighbourly disputes.

Putting in a pool

That pesky neighbour again! If you don’t want them claiming access to your new swimming pool you’ve installed with the help of a mini excavator, we recommend getting a land surveyor in. Just like with the fence, this issue comes down to clearly define property boundaries. By making sure your pool is comfortably within your limits, you won’t risk having to remove or replace it. It’ll be better for you now, and save you a huge headache when the time comes to sell the house.

Building a garage

If it’s time to add a garage onto your property, a licensed land surveyor can help make sure you do it properly. Whether it’s detached from the house or offers internal access, this is a new structure that will need adhere to certain building requirements. Your property boundaries, the town or city you live in and the size of the new garage all affect what you are allowed to build and where.

Upper extensions to your home

You’ve enlisted the help of your brother the builder to add an upper extension to your home, and yet we still recommend getting a land surveyor to check things out?! The reason’s simple: there are certain height boundary requirements that vary from one location to the next. Only a land surveyor can accurately make sure your extension plans don’t exceed the maximum height requirements, and we’ll make sure you have the certification to prove it.

Are you taking on one of these projects around the house?

If you had planned to build a garage or install a fence in Wellington, Levin, Porirua or the Kapiti Coast, best make sure you’re doing it by the books. Talk to the land specialists at Tararua Land Surveyors.