Regional defect profiles · Never merge the frames
The Algarve is its own defect profile
Three Portuguese markets, three different things to look hardest for. Treating a Quarteira villa like a Lisbon apartment misses what costs the buyer most.
Algarve
Salt, sun and unlicensed extras
- Chloride-induced rebar corrosion
- Flat-roof membrane failure (UV)
- Unlicensed pools & extensions
- Septic systems in the interior
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- Rising damp in granite walls
- Casa burguesa timber decay
- ARU rehabilitation quality
- Pre-seismic-code structure
- Old apartment building stock
- Bairro-by-bairro variation
Same discipline everywhere. What changes is where the engineer looks hardest.