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About Us

Durie Heritage is run by husband and wife team, John & Alison Durie.  They are both building surveyors and both have 1st class honours degrees in building surveying.  Both have Masters degrees with John's in the Conservation of Historic Buildings.  This is their journey into historic building surveying.

John Durie

John began a career with Strathclyde Police in 1984 which gave him an inquisitive (nosy) mindset and the need to understand why things were the way they were including evidencing (finding proof) for things that happened.  This is still the case and has been very useful in trying to understand buildings and their quirks and defects.

"It has always been like that" doesn't wash with John.  His inquisive mind ensures that defects are fully inspected and understood to an extent that they can be explained in a non-technical manner to householders.  "Our reports cannot be beaten for their granular detail.  Although we offer continuing contact with us as part of any fee, we seldom receive questions but receive excellent feedback".

Alison Durie

Alison began her career from a different direction in homelessness, housing and social work including housing and tenancy support management.  Latterly, Alison was an operations manager in the British Red Cross before returning to university to obtain her undergraduate degree.  She then attended Cardiff University to study a Masters degree in Urban and Regional Economic Develpoment where she obtained a Merit.

Coming to building surveying later in life has made her keen to get stuck in and she loves crawling around inspecting roofs and below floors.  "This is where all the secrets lie and where all the problems start but they never get inspected.  We are dressed to get dirty".

Together

John & Alison are very experienced as individuals but together they offer a huge range of skills and expertise which, when combined, provides clients with the clarity they need to ensure they have the confidence to buy, the peace of mind to sell and the guidance needed to make their home warm and dry (thanks Pete).