CONTINENTAL ENGINEERS & SURVEYORS

To demo our garage and build a new one, the village requires a recent plat of survey as well as existing and proposed grading around the garage. Our very old and mostly illegible plat would not be acceptable. After researching the BBB website for local surveyors, we called Continental. The owner, Terry Cahill, came to see the property within a couple of days. We gave him a $500 retainer with the rest to be paid after work completion. The surveying would start after his people obtained additional records from the village and county based on our property's Legal Description- some of the concrete sidewalk slabs in our neighborhood were replaced last year so a number of the old survey markers set in those slabs were removed, including the ones marking our boundary. We barely noticed the surveyor on Day 1 as he was measuring and checking from a few houses away against the remaining markers. On Day 2 he measured the house, garage, driveway, and "shot" topography. He also set the markers again on the sidewalk and gave us larger stakes in the back of our property among the bushes and shrubs. The surveying was complete by early afternoon. The next afternoon Judith Cahill was kind enough to deliver three copies each of the plat, topo and site improvement plan on 11" by 17" paper. The entire process, from contacting the company to receiving the plat, took about a week. The Quality is rated "B" because there are a few minor typos. We would give them "B+" or "A-" if we could.