New build snagging survey in Crediton

Crediton is a market town in the Creedy valley with steep red sandstone hills on either side and some of the most productive farmland in Devon around it. Its modern estates sit on the valley sides rather than the valley floor itself, which is a different exposure to a flat-site estate and worth knowing before a survey is booked, because the higher plots on a sloped estate take more of the prevailing weather than the lower ones.

Crediton is open to Atlantic weather from the west with comparatively little shelter, and the valley traps the damp air that weather brings, which is hard on any north-facing new roof slope. It is a similar pattern to Exeter a few miles downstream, but Crediton catches the weather first, coming off open country rather than filtered through the city.

A verge or ridge detail that has not been finished to a wind-driven-rain standard is more likely to show a problem here, in a valley that both receives the weather directly and then holds the resulting damp against the building, than it would somewhere more sheltered.

Because Crediton's estates run up the valley sides rather than sitting on one level pad, it helps to know roughly whereabouts on the estate a plot sits, higher or lower, when booking, so the flight can be planned to give the more exposed elevations proper attention. Beyond that, the process is the same as anywhere else in this coverage area: an address, a defects period end date, and a fixed price back.

Crediton's postcode area is EX17. Holy Cross Church and the long Georgian high street mark the historic centre in the valley bottom, while the modern estates this survey is aimed at climb the valley sides above it, so it is worth saying roughly how far up the slope a plot sits when booking, since exposure changes noticeably with height here.

Tiverton, Okehampton and Barnstaple, all covered elsewhere on this site, sit within a similar band of open, Atlantic-facing Devon countryside, and the same general logic, check higher plots more carefully for wind, applies across all of them.

Devon slate and stone tile both appear on Crediton's older buildings, but the newer estates on the valley sides are more likely built with a standard concrete or interlocking tile, which is worth checking to a wind and damp standard suited to this specific valley rather than to Devon in general.