Do I Really Need a Surveyor?
Depends on who you ask!
Ask a surveyor and he/she will say: "You Betcha!"
Maybe the question should be...
"Do I want the job done right?"
Think about these points...
When you hire a surveyor, you hire a professional. As it is in any profession, there are right ways and wrong ways. Doing a job the wrong way leads to heartaches and headaches. Hiring a professional surveyor will insure the job has been done right. When the staff of Basin Surveys arrives at the project, they arrive with the proper equipment and the properly trained personnel.
Right or wrong way, it's your choice!
Do you want all that liability?
As with just about any project attempted, things can go wrong. When a
surveyor makes a mistake, he/she is responsible. When you do it, it's
your neck. Stop for a second and think about all that can go wrong when
a survey goes bad.
To be liable or not to be liable, that is the question!
It's the LAW!
In most states the requirements to become a professional surveyor are
a four-year college degree, four years of apprenticeship and the passing
of a sixteen-hour exam. All states require licensure of those practicing
surveying to protect the public. If all states take the art of surveying
seriously, hopefully you do too.
The general definition of surveying is to measure. In the states we are licensed in, the detailed definition is any service or work the substantial performance of which involves the principles of mathematics and the related physical and applied sciences for:
- The measuring and locating of lines, angles, elevations and natural
and man-made features in the air, on the surface of the earth, within
underground working and on the beds of bodies of water for the purpose
of defining location, areas, and volumes.
- The monumenting of property boundaries and for the platting and layout
of lands and subdivisions thereof.
- The application of photogrammetric methods used to derive topographic
and other data.
- The establishment of horizontal and/or vertical controls for surveys
for design, topographic surveys including photgrammetric methods, construction
surveys of engineering and architectural public works projects.
- The preparation and perpetuation of maps, records, plats, field notes
and property descriptions.
- Most states also state that the writing of any legal description is
to be done only by licensed professional surveyors.
Hire a professional and get the job done RIGHT!
Email us at any time at gljones@basinsurveys.com.
