Our replaced windows not got building regs - Advice Please?

wallbash

I sold a house last November , The windows were changed in 2005

Cash job , no paper work :eek::eek:

When i came to sell , purchasers solicitors ( not the actual buyers :rolleyes: ) suggested / demanded indemnity insurance? , more than willing to cough up for that
Sold House .

Love the ' FENSA' its a window !!!! been a window for hundreds of years
its a space filled with glass to let light in ! Don't need a bit of paper to tell me that.

Wishful thinking that it will go the same way as a HIP

Lifeisbutadream

wallbash wrote: »

I sold a house last November , The windows were changed in 2005

Cash job , no paper work :eek::eek:

When i came to sell , purchasers solicitors ( not the actual buyers :rolleyes: ) suggested / demanded indemnity insurance? , more than willing to cough up for that
Sold House .

Love the ' FENSA' its a window !!!! been a window for hundreds of years
its a space filled with glass to let light in ! Don't need a bit of paper to tell me that.

Wishful thinking that it will go the same way as a HIP

I have to say I do find it annoying that (some) people seem to think that anyone who isnt FENSA registered is a crook. It cost thousands of £ per year to register and unless you seoley fit windows it just isnt worth it - you (the customer) will be paying for it anyway, so you may as well just get the council out yourselves and pay them direct.

(I still dont understand the insurance invalidy - can anyone explain?)

eadieb

I dont think the guy who put our windows in was a crook. he was very pleasant and the windows have been great. he was a single parent and had a lot on his plate, and I dont think he found it easy organising things.

The thing about the insurance I read on one of the other forums when I was trying to research this. it seemed to say that if you take out indemnity insurance which insures you against the chance that building inspectors might come out, inspect the thing thats been changed and make you pull it down, or change it or have expensive checks done on it.

What someone was saying in another forum was if you go and tell the council that you have a potentially offending item and make them aware of it then it could invalidate the insurance because you are increasing the chance of the reason you are insured. they likened it to the clauses on health insurances where they wont pay out for existing problems.

If i dont phone building regs then I've not caused a problem but if I do, then I may be creating the problem which I then want to insure against.

This was the theory but it might not be right. I will be checking out the whole indemnity insurance thing in more depth following the helpful responses everyone has given. It seems to be the more popular method of dealing with this.

Lifeisbutadream

eadieb wrote: »

I dont think the guy who put our windows in was a crook. he was very pleasant and the windows have been great. he was a single parent and had a lot on his plate, and I dont think he found it easy organising things.

Sorry I wasnt suggesting that you had said he was a crook

I have never heard of Idemnity Insurance - I am off to look it up now. Call me thick, but why would you want to insure against something that is highly unlikely to happen?

eadieb

No offense taken;)

I think the idea with the insurance is that if you are selling your house then it is very likely that the buyers solicitor will want it. if we weren't thinking of selling then we wouldn't bother.

eadieb

I have to go on the school run now but if anyone else would like to add then i would be very grateful and we check the replies later

thanks to all who posted

wallbash

buyers solicitor will want it. if we weren't thinking of selling then we wouldn't bother.

Sums it up !

I put in my first windows in 1986 , last time I drove down that street they were still there. Not allowed to do it today

Why ??

[Deleted User]

I had a local double glazing company put new windows in at the end of 2007. They were FENSA registered and family had used them a few years before for windows. No problems I thought. After they installed the windows, the fitters said I'd receive a certificate in the post from FENSA. Two months later and the cert had still not arrived, so I phoned the double glazing company up. Turned out they had gone into administration and had been dissolved. Still no certificate.

KeithP

Deleted_User wrote: »

I had a local double glazing company put new windows in at the end of 2007. They were FENSA registered and family had used them a few years before for windows. No problems I thought. After they installed the windows, the fitters said I'd receive a certificate in the post from FENSA. Two months later and the cert had still not arrived, so I phoned the double glazing company up. Turned out they had gone into administration and had been dissolved. Still no certificate.

Get on to FENSA. I guess it is possible your installer did notify them. If so, you can get a duplicate certificate from them for £10.00 (plus vat of course).
Check whether FENSA know about the work, and order a certificate if required, from their website.

[Deleted User]

KeithP wrote: »

Get on to FENSA. I guess it is possible your installer did notify them. If so, you can get a duplicate certificate from them for £10.00 (plus vat of course).
Check whether FENSA know about the work, and order a certificate if required, from their website.

Thanks for that.

I've just entered my postcode and my address isn't on the list. Looks like they never even registered me.