Soil survey before purchasing property - who does it?

Asked very layman-like, but if these are building gaps, wouldn't an exchange with the adjacent neighbors be sufficient, or could it still be different?

A very layman question, but if it concerns building gaps, wouldn't an exchange with the neighboring neighbors be sufficient, or can it still be different?

We have already experienced with DH plots that the soil conditions were uncritical, i.e. normal, on one half, and a water vein ran under the other half. These are rare curiosities, but such things are always possible.

Rhenish greetings

Hello Dirk,

Strange argumentation:

As an interested party (sic!) you spend €1000 on a soil survey to find out that you might not purchase the property after all. You do this for 5 properties and each further interested party does it on their own, instead of the seller having it done once and then passing the cost on to the actual buyer through the purchase price?

I can explain that to you ....

It is due to the peculiar mentality of people. The seller sees himself exposed to negotiations over the property price, often also to the alleged absurdity of pre-sale actions (e.g. soil surveys) on his part. So he tries to avoid these discussions as much as possible or reduce them to a minimum.

Moreover, it is the case that every provider who includes soil surveys in their scope of services has different requirements for the survey; often they do not even credit the actual amount when a builder brings the property + survey with them.

In this respect, it has become customary that everyone is the smith of their own fortune. Meaning, with regard to the question of the original poster: he buys a property, nothing more and nothing less. It is up to him to arrange everything else.

Rhenish regards

We have already experienced with DH plots that on one half the soil conditions were uncritical, i.e. normal, and under the other half a water vein ran. These are rare anomalies, but such a thing is always possible.

Rhenish greetings

Ok, many thanks for the quick and direct info. So there is no way around it.

In case one wants to drill a well if possible, this could be checked in a "normal standard soil report" or it might possibly be evident from where the spring, if present, runs.

In case one wants to drill a well if possible, this could be checked in a "normal standard soil survey" or it might possibly be evident from there where the spring, if present, runs along.

If you accordingly expand the order and the soil surveyor offers this within his scope of services: why not? If I am not mistaken, well drillers – similar to providers for drilling for brine-water heat pumps – offer the required survey at the same time. Rhine regards

Aha ok, thanks a lot