Independent residential surveying
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
Advice while work happens
Winning the insurance claim is only half the battle. Then your home has to actually be rebuilt — contractors chosen, works sequenced, quality checked, payments staged — usually while you are living in temporary accommodation and just want your life back.
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Associate Member, RICS
MCIOB
Chartered Construction Manager
Regulated by RICS
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Fully insured
Professional indemnity insurance
ICO registered
Data protection registered
A decade in industry
Contracting, surveying and claims
What the service is really for
Reinstatement project management puts a construction professional in your corner for that whole process. Jarelle Mills is a Chartered Construction Manager (MCIOB) with years spent running contracting operations and handling complex insurance reinstatements — which means knowing how building works should be run, and all the ways they quietly go wrong when nobody independent is watching.
From agreeing the final scope through to snagging and sign-off, the job is simple to state: get your home rebuilt properly, to the agreed scope, without you having to become a construction expert overnight.
Fit and deliverables
From question to answer
One named surveyor. One clear brief. No handover to a report factory.
The agreed reinstatement scope is reviewed and confirmed, gaps flagged, and the works packaged so contractors can price them properly.
Quotes are obtained and compared like-for-like, references and insurances checked, and a recommendation made — the decision stays yours.
Staged site inspections at the points that matter — before things get covered up, not after. You get short written updates in plain English after each visit.
A snagging inspection, a defects list the contractor works through, and final sign-off against the scope before the last payment is released.
Before you instruct
Clear scope now prevents disappointment later. If another service—or no paid service—is the better answer, that is what you will hear.
Yes. Even where the insurer manages the works, you are entitled to satisfy yourself about quality. Independent staged inspections and a snagging report give you evidence, not just unease, if standards slip — and insurers respond to documented defects far faster than to complaints.
With the scope. Before any contractor is approached, the reinstatement scope is confirmed so that quotes are complete and comparable. Tendering from a defined scope is the single biggest protection a cash-settled policyholder has.
That is much of the point of independent oversight: disagreements get resolved by reference to the agreed scope and proper standards, documented in writing, rather than by whoever argues loudest on site.
As little as you want. Most clients settle into a rhythm of a short update after each inspection and a decision from you only when one is genuinely needed — contractor selection, colour and finish choices, payment releases.
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Send the property details and you will get a fixed quote—plus a straight answer on whether this is genuinely the right depth for your situation.