House sale - no boiler cert, options?

timmyt · 29 March 2010 at 9:19PM

good grief. OP if you want your house sold - as a conveyancing solicitor I have seen this time over do the following:

1. indemnity insurance
2. have it serviced by gas safe registered company to at least give it a thumbs up that there is no danger.

the buyer can do likewise, as buyers have always done when buying a home.

you'll be fine

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/HomeAndCommunity/Planning/BuildingRegulations/DG_10030520

<sebb> · 29 March 2010 at 9:22PM

Surely there must be a way to get a retrospective certificate? On the house I was buying, before I pulled out, when my solicitor found out there was no certificate she sent a letter to their solicitors saying it was not acceptable that there was no certificate as this was required by law and that they needed to get one.

timmyt · 29 March 2010 at 9:25PM

Building control, unless danger to health and safety no action will be taken as LA don't have money

speak to a gas safe registered company and get their options

Canucklehead · 29 March 2010 at 9:29PM

<sebb> wrote: »

Surely there must be a way to get a retrospective certificate? On the house I was buying, before I pulled out, when my solicitor found out there was no certificate she sent a letter to their solicitors saying it was not acceptable that there was no certificate as this was required by law and that they needed to get one.

How much easier would it have been to get it fitted by someone GSR in the first place.?

GSR.

neilb1777 · 29 March 2010 at 9:32PM

Many thanks for everybodies input so far. Just to add, it was installed by a competant person and is serviced each year by a gas safe guy, so I am confident it's safe.
Just need a retospective cert. somehow.
I realise it will probably cost more than having it done by the book in the first place!!

timmyt · 29 March 2010 at 9:36PM

just offer the paperwork to confirm the above, plus offer indemnity.

you'll be fine.

happy exchnage of contracts OP

puddy · 29 March 2010 at 9:49PM

personally this is a lot of fuss about nothing, in the old days when people didnt always use registered people, what was different?

the op is being accused of virtually murdering his family by not getting a gas safe fitter, but before gas safe existed and pre corgi he would have had it fitted by a competent person (just like he did) and nothing would be wrong with it, now its suggested his house is about to blow up

<sebb> · 29 March 2010 at 9:56PM

jenner wrote: »

personally this is a lot of fuss about nothing, in the old days when people didnt always use registered people, what was different?

the op is being accused of virtually murdering his family by not getting a gas safe fitter, but before gas safe existed and pre corgi he would have had it fitted by a competent person (just like he did) and nothing would be wrong with it, now its suggested his house is about to blow up

Personally speaking, if I'm going to hand over hundreds of thousands of pounds of my hard earned cash, I'd want to know things were done properly (and legally). Indemnity policies dont cut it for me. My ideal would be a restropective certificate. If I still wanted the house, then I would accept indemnity and a gas safety inspection. But I'd still push for the retrospective certificate. It would NOT be a deal breaker, but I'd rather have retrospective certificates.

silvercar · 29 March 2010 at 10:17PM

Three years after the event, I would rather have a new gas certificate that shows it is safe at this moment in time, than a retrospective installation certificate.

puddy · 29 March 2010 at 10:18PM

but what else do you want done 'properly' do you want indemnity insurance for everything, retrospective certs for things that were put in prior to the legislation being put in, surely its buyer beware. when i sold my flat last year the boiler had been there for 20 years, i hadnt put it in, the previous vendor didnt put it in. i got it tested when i moved in, what the buyer did when she moved in is her business, she buys it as seen