Buying house with internal walls removed - building regs etc..

JoeA81

** Update **

Thanks for replys so far. As mentioned the vendor's solicitor was (the now gone bust) Wolstenholmes, and the delay this caused means that their newly appointed solicitor has only just got round to confirming that they dont have building regulations for the removed walls. They have offered to pay for us to get indemnity insurance, but we want to get them to pay for a structural engineer to go round there to lift the floorboards and have a look.

But we are not sure if we should go through the solicitor to ask this, or whether to just ask the vendor's EA. Im a bit worried about spiralling solicitors costs - would it be easier to ask the vendor through the EA, or should all communication to do with things like this go through the solicitors?

Thanks.

JoeA81

*** Final Update ***

Thanks for all your advice, we finally got the strucutral engineer round, and managed to look at the structure of the house with him. His report says all is fine and the current support is adequate.

The walls removed and the walls remaining above them were both block walls, and there is a joinst underneith them on the first floor which runs from the front to the back of the house, and all the other joists are supported on the remaining load bearing wall in the middle, again with the joists going front to middle and middle to back. The roof is also supported on the remaining middle load bearing wall.

We are very happy and exchanged last week, and will be completing by the end of March.

Whoop!

Thanks again.