A house we might buy is walked from the hall outward. We look at the stair, the place people eat, and whether the rooms are dry. These pictures are examples of that kind of space. They are not a list of homes for sale.
We walk up and down. A loose tread, a rail that moves, or a mark on the wall is written down. The stair also shows how the floors join, and whether light reaches the hall.
If someone lives in the house, we only come at a time they have agreed.
The table tells us the size of the room. Behind it we look at the cupboards, the worktop, and any drip under the sink. We are not judging the chairs. We are deciding whether this is a house we want to own.
A dark stair is noted as clearly as a cracked tread. We switch on the lights that are there and see what the hall looks like without the daylight from the front door. A blown bulb in a shared landing is a small thing. A whole floor with no light is not.
We do not start work during a first look. No one is booked to paint, and nothing is taken away. The visit is for seeing. Any repair waits until we own the house, or until a sale of ours is already agreed and the writing says who does the work.
We keep a short note of what was sound and what was tired. That note is what we use if we buy, and what we share, in plain words, if we later sell.
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