White lie on home buyer report???

lythaby

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum, but bear with me.

Purchased a house with my partner about one and a half years ago. Had the home buyers bumf, and a homebuyers report (Medium Survey).

Recently our boiler stopped lighting the main burner. I feared the worse, got a mate to look at it, who cleaned it. Once finished it worked perfectly, but his diagnosis of the problem was interesting. He reckons the boiler hadn't been serviced for a good three years, and the amount or crud that came out would confirm this.

Back to the question...

If the home buyers report said serviced in the last year, but no paper evidence, what can i do? I mean my mate would normally charge £60 for a service, so it's no great fee, but if this had not have happened both my partner and i could've died from carbon monoxide, etc, etc.

Any opinions? or is it solicitor territory?

ILW

lythaby wrote: »

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum, but bear with me.

Purchased a house with my partner about one and a half years ago. Had the home buyers bumf, and a homebuyers report (Medium Survey).

Recently our boiler stopped lighting the main burner. I feared the worse, got a mate to look at it, who cleaned it. Once finished it worked perfectly, but his diagnosis of the problem was interesting. He reckons the boiler hadn't been serviced for a good three years, and the amount or crud that came out would confirm this.

Back to the question...

If the home buyers report said serviced in the last year, but no paper evidence, what can i do? I mean my mate would normally charge £60 for a service, so it's no great fee, but if this had not have happened both my partner and i could've died from carbon monoxide, etc, etc.

Any opinions? or is it solicitor territory?

You didn't, so I would suggest, let it go and get on with your life.

princessamy86

Did it actually say, this boiler has been service in the last year?

OR (more likely I think) "It is assumed the boiler has been serviced within the last year due to verbal information from vendor"

Because honestly, it's rare a surveyor doesn't cover his back. Also like the above poster said: it didn't cost you anything and you're not dead so what are you hoping to get out of the situation?

keith969

lythaby wrote: »

If the home buyers report said serviced in the last year, but no paper evidence, what can i do? I mean my mate would normally charge £60 for a service, so it's no great fee, but if this had not have happened both my partner and i could've died from carbon monoxide, etc, etc.

Caveat emptor and all that. Unless you had written evidence that the boiler had been serviced - and you could have asked for this at the time of purchase as my buyer just did - the homebuyers report statement means little.

BTW if the main burner did not light you would not have been at risk from carbon monoxide poisioning, which is due to incomplete combustion, not NO combustion!

Blacksheep1979

You should probably sue your partner for not buying carbon monoxide detectors...

lythaby

Thats' cool. It's no problem tbh, just thought it a little odd. As said above it was worded in such a way they're !!!! was covered.

Quite happy it's not new boiler territory tbh!!!

Raggie

I may have miss understood...

You have been there about 1.5 years

survey/report indicates 1 year since service(worst case)

so add the two times together that's 2.5 years...

Your mate recons about 3 years since service...

All adds up to me..

As I am sure you know you should service every year so you were pushing it leaving it 18 months.

lythaby

Yeah, we worked that out pretty much as soon as i'd posted.

Time flys and all that. At the time i took it that it had been serviced at, or around the time of the report.

As you say looking at it now, it could've been 11 months when we purchased it, then add another 18 months, so it really is about 3 years.

Well worth £60, or a few beers every year!!

PasturesNew

Yeah, buyer beware and all that. It's only £60 yet 18 months on and you've not had it serviced either.

The original owner might have had it serviced "about a year ago", but their memory might have been hazy and it was 14 months prior when he said that; the buying process might have taken 3 months; it's now 18 months on.... that's a total of 3 years.