Independent practice / Huddersfield

One person. Three ways of seeing a building.

Surveyology is the residential surveying practice of Jarelle Mills—an AssocRICS surveyor and Chartered Construction Manager with a decade spanning the people who build homes, inspect them and put them right after damage.

Trace the experience

CAREER SECTION / 0110+ YEARS

AssocRICSMCIOBRICS REGULATED

  • AssocRICS

    Associate Member, RICS

  • MCIOB

    Chartered Construction Manager

  • Regulated by RICS

    Rules of Conduct apply

  • Fully insured

    Professional indemnity insurance

  • ICO registered

    Data protection registered

  • A decade in industry

    Contracting, surveying and claims

Why the practice exists

Property advice should not arrive with a product to sell.

Much of the property-advice market has a quiet conflict built in: damp surveys funded by damp-proofing sales, claim assessments produced for one side of the table and reports written defensively rather than usefully.

Surveyology is deliberately independent. No repair work is sold, no referral fees are taken and no conclusion is shaded to please whoever is paying. The job is to show what the building evidence supports.

Buildings also refuse to fail in neat professional silos. Advice gets better when the person giving it understands construction from the contractor’s side, housing condition from the surveyor’s side and damage from the insurer’s side.

A decade / three vantage points

The building stays the same. The viewpoint changes.

  1. 01
    Building and contracting

    Built it

    Years inside contracting operations—how buildings go together, where workmanship fails and what a practical repair really involves.

  2. 02
    Residential surveying

    Inspected it

    Field surveying across real homes: disciplined inspection, construction-stage knowledge and housing quality seen at close range.

  3. 03
    Complex insurance claims

    Put it right

    Subsidence, fire, flood and escape-of-water claims scoped, costed, validated and resolved—knowing how damage works from inside the process.

That breadth is the edge: not only what a defect is, but why it happened, what fixing it involves and how the answer changes a purchase, claim or project.

Qualifications / accountability

The letters are useful. What sits behind them matters more.

RICS

AssocRICS

Associate Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Building Surveying pathway; practising under RICS regulation.

CIOB

MCIOB

Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Building—the Chartered Construction Manager qualification.

Together they cover the two things residential advice needs: how to inspect and report on buildings, and how buildings actually get built. Home surveys follow the current RICS Home Survey Standard.

The evidence kit

Use the instrument the question deserves.

A home survey remains visual and non-invasive. A focused defect brief can go further—thermal imaging, borescope work or carefully agreed opening-up—when that extra evidence is genuinely necessary.

Professional philosophy

Three rules behind every instruction.

  1. 01

    Evidence first

    Reports show observation, reasoning and conclusion in that order, so you can see how the answer was reached.

  2. 02

    Honesty over comfort

    Sometimes the answer is “do nothing”. Sometimes it is harder news. Either way, the evidence—not the fee—decides.

  3. 03

    Plain English

    Technical rigour and readable writing belong together. Jargon is avoided where possible and explained where necessary.

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