Roof survey walkthrough

One employer covers everything we earn. If that contract ends, the household has no second root.

What the wealth is for: Time that is ours on weekday evenings, and the option to move city without asking permission.

Paid pre-purchase roof survey for older terraced houses

A two-hour roof and gutter survey for people about to buy an older terraced house, delivered as a short written report within 48 hours.

Nothing before 6am, nothing after 8pm, and Sunday stays untouched. No money borrowed for this build.

Weekday evenings and Sunday. Survey visits happen Saturday mornings only, two per Saturday at most.

• Problem defined by a person: Buyers of older terraces cannot tell from a general survey whether the roof is a six-month problem or a six-year problem.
• AI accelerated: Drafting the report structure and a plain-language explanation of common roof faults.
• Decision that stayed human: What is actually wrong with a specific roof, what it will cost, and what I tell the buyer to do. That stays mine — I am on the ladder, not the model.
• Evidence required: Strangers paying the full price, and the report being used in a real purchase conversation.
• Reviewed and approved: I read every drafted section against the roof I actually inspected and rewrote the findings myself. Reviewed and approved 12 Feb.

People who are not friends or family pay the full price without being asked twice, and at least one of them comes back or sends someone else.

One evidence-based change at a time. Categories available to this build: reach / exposure · problem clarity · audience fit · promise clarity · format · price · delivery · durability.

1. Round 1 → 2: problem clarity. The promise changed from 'roof survey' to 'how long this roof has left, in writing'. One change only.
2. Round 2 → 3: delivery. Report turnaround cut from five days to 48 hours; price held at £180 deliberately, so the change being tested stayed single.

• Replenished: skill and confidence on the ladder, one new relationship with a local solicitor.
• Depleted: Saturday mornings, and roughly four evenings writing reports.
• Strain: one yes — report writing ran past 8pm twice in week three. Scope reduced: two surveys per Saturday became the hard ceiling.

The report template, the photographs and the client list are ours. The buying groups are not — that reach belongs to someone else's platform and is the main control risk.

Absence test passed in part: Ada ran a full survey visit from the checklist while Jerome was away, but could not write the report without him. The report step is not yet transferable.

Maintain — Keep the current capability substantially as it is.

Maintain. The survey in its tested form — £180, 48-hour written report — keeps its place in the household exactly as it stands. We wanted to call the shorter report an improvement, but shortening it changes the delivery model, and nobody has bought the shorter version. An untested change is not an integrated improvement, so that becomes a bounded test in its own right rather than something we quietly fold in now.

Expansion is not a Day-30 action. The record may note that this build looks worth reconsidering for expansion, and that question is answered at the 90-Day Horizon Review.

Attention was never the problem. The offer had to name the thing the buyer was actually afraid of before any conversation turned into payment. Compliments from friends told us nothing; the first refusal told us the most.

A tested survey checklist, a report format two people can follow, a paid client record, and a working relationship with a local solicitor.

• A shortened report format — a bounded test of its own, because it changes delivery. Parked, not started.
• A short 'roof age' guide that estate agents could hand out — parked, not started.
• Teaching the report-writing step to Ada so the build stops depending on one person.

Parked, not started.