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Surveyor problem
chilli_dog
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wont bore you all with a massive story but will give you the facts so you can make up your own mind.
We are remortgaging to another building society to simply get a better deal
The new building society sent round a surveyor to look at the house, she was here for ages and crawled all over the house taking measurments and everything ( as you would expect).
She flagged up one potenial problem, the external lintels over the windows would need to be checked by a NHBC builder to check they are ok. Apparantley in old houses (ours is 110 years old) the old sash windows used to form part of the lintel and removing them COULD weaken the external wall. And replacing them with UPVC might be a problem.
We spoke to a couple of NHBC builders, two of them looked at the windows and said they were fine but they would not put it in writing in case they were liable in anyway.
Spoke to the surveyor explained that no NHBC builder would put it in writing, she told me she thought that would happen and gave me a number of a building inspector who would give me a report.
Spoke to the inspector and he diagnosed that my lintels needed changing over the phone and asked to come and see me. (he has not been yet).
Good News,
One of the NHBC builders who i left messages for actually turned up at my house, had a look around examined the windows and lintels above them, said all was ok AND was williing to put it in writing, just waiting for the letter now.
All should be ok now but,
Does this sound suspicous to anyone or am i being paranoid.
Comments most welcome
Martin
We are remortgaging to another building society to simply get a better deal
The new building society sent round a surveyor to look at the house, she was here for ages and crawled all over the house taking measurments and everything ( as you would expect).
She flagged up one potenial problem, the external lintels over the windows would need to be checked by a NHBC builder to check they are ok. Apparantley in old houses (ours is 110 years old) the old sash windows used to form part of the lintel and removing them COULD weaken the external wall. And replacing them with UPVC might be a problem.
We spoke to a couple of NHBC builders, two of them looked at the windows and said they were fine but they would not put it in writing in case they were liable in anyway.
Spoke to the surveyor explained that no NHBC builder would put it in writing, she told me she thought that would happen and gave me a number of a building inspector who would give me a report.
Spoke to the inspector and he diagnosed that my lintels needed changing over the phone and asked to come and see me. (he has not been yet).
Good News,
One of the NHBC builders who i left messages for actually turned up at my house, had a look around examined the windows and lintels above them, said all was ok AND was williing to put it in writing, just waiting for the letter now.
All should be ok now but,
Does this sound suspicous to anyone or am i being paranoid.
Comments most welcome
Martin
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