How a check is ordered, made and read
What happens between ordering a check and reading it: who goes, on what date, what the report carries, and what it deliberately does not do.
Ordering a check takes three moves: you say where the property is, how big it is and what the visit is for; a specialist goes on a date fixed with you and photographs the unit and the site; a report reaches you in your language with that record set against your contract. It is not an engineering opinion and not a legal document.
From ordering to the report
Three moves, and two of them are ours.
- You order. The district, the kind of property, its size and what the visit is for — how the building is coming along, before the warranty runs out, or a payment milestone. The price is on the screen before you pay, and the app takes the address of the building.
- Somebody goes. On a date fixed with you. They photograph the unit and the site, and every photograph carries the day it was taken.
- The report reaches you. In your language, with the photographs, the note on what they show, and the check against your contract.
What is in a report
Four things, and the fourth is not always possible.
- Photographs carrying the day they were taken. The unit and the site as they stood on the date of the visit.
- A written note on what they show, in your language, by the person who read the record.
- What the contract says should be there by now, set against what was found.
- A completion range, where the state of the building allows one to be given. Where it does not, the report says so rather than inventing a date.
The visit also places the building on the ladder of ten construction steps the whole service runs on, so one report can be read against the last.
What this is not
- The report is not a licensed assessment and not an engineering opinion.
- Not a quality survey, and not an audit of what the developer has invoiced: we report what is standing against what the contract promised.
- Not a legal document. Forecasts are given with a confidence level, never as a statement.
You could hire an engineer for the day
Most people who have thought about watching a building site from another country have thought about hiring an engineer first, and it is a reasonable thing to do. Hiring one is in fact part of what we do for you. The difference isn’t who walks the site. It is that afterwards somebody reads your contract against what was photographed, and writes it up in your language.
What the report stands on
One document, not an opinion
The report says what was seen, on what date, and how it sits against the contract you signed. It is not technical supervision: the grade of the steel and the joints in the pipework are a different job for a different company.
Local registration where the market requires it
In Cyprus the field record is signed by a specialist on the ETEK register, the national chamber that licenses the profession, and carries their registration number. Every market page names the register behind the signature, or states that the market has none.
Your report is yours alone
Nobody else sees it. Not the developer, not another buyer in the same building, not a future one. There is no screen and no address by which they could, which is a stronger guarantee than a promise not to.
A company you can look up
Draymere is operated by a company registered in the United Kingdom, and every price on every market is published on this site. Both are on the record before you pay anything.
What arrives at the end of all this is one document: what was seen on the site, on what date, and how it sits against the contract you signed, written up in your language. Not technical supervision, not a quality survey, not an audit of what the developer invoiced — and read by nobody but you.
Last checked
Questions on this
- What if the developer will not let your specialist in?
- Access is arranged with your authorisation before the visit, not at the gate. If we are refused on the day, we photograph and date the perimeter and every accessible elevation, and the report comes out on time on what could be obtained: that record, the permits and approvals, and your payment position against your contract. The refusal is in it, dated, and your next visit stays on the schedule.
- What if I disagree with what you found?
- Tell us and we'll show the evidence behind the figure: the checklist entries, the photographs and the dates. Where we got it wrong, we correct and reissue at no charge. Where the disagreement is about interpretation, we record your position in the report rather than quietly overruling it.
- Who actually visits, and what are they qualified to do?
- A specialist we contract, working to a fixed protocol: they record the state of each checklist item and photograph what they find. They don't assign percentages and they don't write your report. That is done by a coordinator, from their record. Where a market regulates the profession, the field record is signed by someone on that register, with their number on it.