Things to Remember While Looking For Professional Land Surveying Service in California

Hiring a professional land surveying service in California can be helpful when you need to map out your property and determine its boundaries and easements. Land surveying companies can provide many different services like as-built, geodetic, geo data control, high-definition, ALTA/ACSM, and boundary surveys. Likewise, they can help in condominium and encumbrance mapping, provide expert witness testimony, and construction staking. But not all land surveying companies in California can provide the same level and quality of service as real professionals. Hence, remember these things while looking for a land surveying service:

• Verify their expertise – Professional land surveying companies in California have at least two decades of experience in providing services to many different residential and commercial clients. It is their experience that allows them to be versatile and capable of offering their services to a wide range of clientele. Moreover, they are able to keep up with the latest standards and developments in land surveying and apply them. To make sure that you are hiring an expert, verify the company's licenses, and ensure that they are bonded. This way, you can be more confident that you are hiring real professionals.

• Look for an insured company – Even professionals can make mistakes, but when they do, they fix the problem and make sure that you have nothing to worry about. A professional land surveying service in California has professional liability insurance, and it provides compensation insurance to its surveyors in case they get hurt or injured on the job.

• Do a background check – Learn about the company's history, background, and previous customers. One way to do this is by checking with the Better Business Bureau. The BBB is a good source for the company's history and if there have been any complaints about the service. Moreover, look up feedback and reviews from previous clients, as this is a good way to determine the quality of their land surveying services and customer service.

• Check the equipment that they use – A professional land surveying service is up to date with their equipment and surveying devices. Advanced surveying and scanning devices like HD 3D scanners allow surveyors to accomplish the job faster while ensuring the highest-quality and most accurate results. This way, you do not have to worry about the survey taking a lot of time, and it does not have to interrupt severely your daily operations. HD 3D scanning can accurately survey properties that have already been constructed or must be examined for destruction, remodeling, and renovation, too.

About the Author:

Armando Dupont, a professional land surveyor, started his career in surveying in 1977 and has extensive experience in managing personnel and projects. His experience includes: topographic mapping, boundary surveys and analysis, construction and control surveying, preparation of tract and parcel maps, earth work calculation and quantities, targeting and control for photogrammetric, and land title surveys in accordance with the American Land Title Association and the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping. Mr. DuPont founded Calvada Surveying, Inc. in 1989 and is a licensed Professional Land Surveyor in the State of California.