Logos Group Limited
Registered in England and Wales, company number 17422831, registered office 60 The Beacon, Stile Common Road, Huddersfield HD4 6DE. Surveyology is one of its trading names.
A working library
Written by people who still do the job.
Surveyology is a working library for residential surveyors — what the instruments actually tell you, what to record on site, and how to word a report that holds. It is run by Logos Group Limited, written from casework rather than a content calendar, which is why it's worth reading.
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Written in practice
By surveyors who still inspect
Limits first
What it cannot tell you, up front
No sponsored entries
Nobody pays to appear
Company-backed
A trading name of Logos Group Limited
ICO registered
Data protection registered
A decade in industry
Contracting, surveying and claims
Why it exists
Guidance written by people who never carry the bag.
Surveying is not short of published guidance. What it is short of is the sort written by someone who was on a roof last week — the kind that tells you a resistance meter will read high on a dry salted wall, rather than explaining which end to hold.
The same is true of equipment. Most of what is written about a moisture meter or a borescope is written to sell one. An entry that will not tell you when an instrument is not worth the money is not much use to a surveyor deciding whether to buy it.
Surveyology starts from the other end. It is written by surveyors, against live instructions, about the parts of the job that actually take the time — and it says plainly which parts are not written yet.
Three chapters / one working day
The library is ordered the way the day runs.
- 01What you carry
The instrument decides the evidence.
Every meter, camera and probe answers one narrow question well and several others badly. These are notes on what each one is actually telling you — and where it misleads.
- 02What you record
Capture it once, properly.
Checklists, photograph discipline, sketches and limitation wording. The difference between a site visit you can write up in an hour and one you cannot.
- 03Back at the desk
The reading was never the slow part.
Wording, ratings, templates and — in time — a capture tool that carries the site record through to a finished report.
Nothing is sorted the way a catalogue would sort it. Open the library and start where the job is slowest for you.
Chapter 01 / what you carry
Use the instrument the question deserves.
Every meter, camera and probe answers one narrow question well and several others badly. These are the entries on what each one is actually telling you — and where it misleads.
- 01
Moisture meters
Pin and pinless instruments measure different things, and neither measures moisture content in masonry. What the reading means, where it misleads, and how to record it so the report survives challenge.
- 02
Thermal imaging
Thermal patterns suggest where to look; they do not diagnose. Sensitivity, emissivity, the conditions a survey needs, and the claims that get surveyors into trouble.
- 03
Borescopes
Probe diameter, articulation, lighting and recording. What a cavity inspection reasonably shows, and the written consent that has to sit behind every hole.
- 04
Laser measures
Range, accuracy and the features that matter on site over the ones that sell the box. Where a laser beats a tape and where it quietly does not.
- 05
Crack monitoring
Tell-tales, calibrated studs and digital gauges. How long a monitoring period has to run before it means anything, and how to write up an inconclusive one.
- 06
Cameras and 360° record
A whole-room condition record, frozen at the date of inspection, is the cheapest insurance a surveyor can buy. Kit, workflow and storage.
- 07
Access and safety
What you can reasonably reach, what you decline, and how to record a limitation so it reads as a professional judgement rather than a gap.
Who runs this
Who's behind it.
How it gets written
Three rules behind every entry.
- 01
Limits before capability
Every kit entry says what the instrument cannot tell you before it says what it can, because that is the half that gets a surveyor into trouble.
- 02
Written from use
Nothing is reviewed from a spec sheet. If it has not been carried on a job, it does not get written up — and if an answer is uncertain, the entry says so.
- 03
Honest about status
Entries that are not written are listed unlinked rather than promised. No countdowns, no waiting lists, and the list is updated when something slips as well as when it lands.
Straight answers
The questions people actually ask.
Who is Surveyology for?
Residential surveyors — the kit pages, checklists and reporting reference are written for practitioners doing the work, not for homeowners commissioning a survey.
Does anyone pay to appear in the kit pages?
No. No manufacturer or distributor pays for a place in the library, and no entry is written to sell a box. Where an instrument is not worth the money for most residential work, the entry says so.
When will the rest of the library be written?
Entries go up as the casework they come from is finished rather than to a content calendar, so there is no schedule to promise. Everything not yet written is listed unlinked with an honest status, and the order is decided by what surveyors ask for.
What will it cost?
The library is free to read. The reporting tool has no pricing yet because it has not been decided — nothing is being sold or pre-sold, and when pricing is settled it will be published plainly rather than quoted on request.
Does a clause bank not just make every report the same?
Consistent is not the same as identical. A clause supplies language for a judgement the surveyor has already made — the observation still describes the building in front of you, and the rating, the reasoning and the liability stay entirely with the person who signs the report.
Who owns wording I contribute?
If you volunteer wording, suggestions or feedback, we may use it to improve the library without obligation or payment unless something different is agreed in writing beforehand. That is set out in the terms. Please do not send confidential client material.
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Built in practice, not in a product meeting.
Surveyology is written by surveyors while they survey. If an entry would save you an evening, say which one — the library grows in the order it gets asked for.