House sale - no boiler cert, options?

neilb1777

Hi all,

I'm after some advice from the experts!

Basically my boiler was installed about 3 years ago and is not registered with gas safe. (cash in hand job, guy was ex corgi)
Now selling house so needs to be above board.
Anybody know how much it would cost for building control to certify it? (I know it won't be cheap I'm sitting down)
I don't fancy the indemnity policy route, looks like you have something to hide and I'm not sure a landloards cert will be sufficient.

Or is there another way??

timmyt

neilb1777 wrote: »

Hi all,

I'm after some advice from the experts!

Basically my boiler was installed about 3 years ago and is not registered with gas safe. (cash in hand job, guy was ex corgi)
Now selling house so needs to be above board.
Anybody know how much it would cost for building control to certify it? (I know it won't be cheap I'm sitting down)
I don't fancy the indemnity policy route, looks like you have something to hide and I'm not sure a landloards cert will be sufficient.

Or is there another way??

just get corgi certified person in to file the relevant cerrts

shane42

no the council cant sign it off , it is a legal requirement to use gas safe registered installer , you are iresponsible to use a dodgy installer shame on you , you could kill your self your family your neigbours .

timmyt

dont be daft shane42. the public have no idea about the rules, that is the story with uk law. the government use school boys to over complicate uk legislation drafting.

let the sale proceed and see what the buyer wants

Canucklehead

timmyt wrote: »

just get corgi certified person in to file the relevant cerrts

No you can't.

And it's now Gas Safe Registers second birthday (by which I mean this is the second year I have registered)

Keep up with the hunt now!!

So the OP has knowingly paid an unregistered installer (I take that's what you mean by 'ex Corgi'?) and now wants to make it right. Might as well go the indemnity road as ,yes, you do have something to hide.

GSR.

timmyt

you can get a corgi chap in (or whatever you call them is my point) to service it and confirm it is fine. a buyer will accept that as the council won't engforce when there is no risk, and not after 12 months.

MissMotivation

timmyt wrote: »

you can get a corgi chap in (or whatever you call them is my point) to service it and confirm it is fine. a buyer will accept that as the council won't engforce when there is no risk, and not after 12 months.

That's the point......no such thing as a "corgi chap" anymore!

OP.....hope you can sleep safe knowing you could potentially have an unsafe boiler :eek:

Indemnity policy is the way to go in terms of selling AND get a GAS SAFE registered heating chap to come and check it!

<sebb>

MissMotivation wrote: »

Indemnity policy is the way to go in terms of selling AND get a GAS SAFE registered heating chap to come and check it!

Is there a way to get a retrospective certificate? Is that what you mean about getting the Gas Safe guy to check it? So do you need the indemnity policy too? I'm just asking because I recently pulled out of a sale where the vendor did the same thing (I pulled out for other reasons) but I would have wanted a retrospective certificate and NOT and indemnity policy - although I see you're suggesting it gets checked too which may have satisfied my concerns. I'd rather just have the certificate though!

shane42

<sebb> wrote: »

Is there a way to get a retrospective certificate? Is that what you mean about getting the Gas Safe guy to check it? So do you need the indemnity policy too? I'm just asking because I recently pulled out of a sale where the vendor did the same thing (I pulled out for other reasons) but I would have wanted a retrospective certificate and NOT and indemnity policy - although I see you're suggesting it gets checked too which may have satisfied my concerns. I'd rather just have the certificate though!

hi
dont buy a house from an idiot who is prepared to have a dodgy boiler fitted, what else is dodgy what other dangers are hidden? only an idiot has a boiler or fusebox done without using a skilled registered installer

david69_2

MissMotivation wrote: »

That's the point......no such thing as a "corgi chap" anymore!

OP.....hope you can sleep safe knowing you could potentially have an unsafe boiler :eek:

Indemnity policy is the way to go in terms of selling AND get a GAS SAFE registered heating chap to come and check it!

I doubt the boiler is unsafe the bloke must of known what to do its lasted 3 years.

Canucklehead

timmyt wrote: »

you can get a corgi chap in (or whatever you call them is my point) to service it and confirm it is fine. a buyer will accept that as the council won't engforce when there is no risk, and not after 12 months.

A GSR engineer cannot issue a Cert. of Compliance.
If one is not submitted to the solicitor then that would suggest to them that it was not installed properly, by a registered installer. In this case that may well be the case.
Get the indemnity and hope the buyer is not put at risk with a possibly dodgy installation. Perhaps the vendor could be liable if there is an 'incident'

GSR.