Seller refuses to pay for unsupported chimney breast - what should I do?

Christyt

Thanks a milllion ajb69 and essOtwo - thats a real help.

Christyt

Hi all - another quick question. The EA asked me to get builders to quote on work needing doing. Re the main issue with the unsupported chimney stack, builders say they can't quote accurately without structural calculations? Am I expected to pay for these in order to get a proper quote? Or should I insist the seller get them done?

TrickyDicky

Insist the seller does it all, or you're off.
You hold all the cards. Dont hand any of them over. The biggest trump card is the walk away card.
The Seller should pay for all costs other than your survey! anything that comes up in the survey is money you can negotiate off the selling price.

mlz1413

Christyt wrote: »

Hi all - another quick question. The EA asked me to get builders to quote on work needing doing. Re the main issue with the unsupported chimney stack, builders say they can't quote accurately without structural calculations? Am I expected to pay for these in order to get a proper quote? Or should I insist the seller get them done?

Get the builders to quote for worse case sernio with a covering explaination of what they need to do / access to quote accurately and hand it into EA.

Wait and see what the EA / seller say.

Christyt

Thanks for all responses. Just spoke to EA who sounded doubtful. I said seller must get the structural calcs done to enable builders to cost accurately or the worst case scenario cost would be around £3k. Said I'd expect them to pay for it either way.

I know these sellers are tight - one is a roofer and he's left his garage leaking so that it's rotting and done cheap patches on the roof. The roof needs replacing but I think he's just going to offer to patch it to get sale done. In two minds as to whether to accept his patch up job on roof or not.

Going to hold firm on the chimney breast though. There's plenty of other maintenance needed on the property cos they've treated it so badly....

fraser

i'd be a bit wary of this guy if he is a roofer and he is doing poor jobs on his own house!

i'd be chasing for a price reduction and get the work done myself - the roofing and gutters that is

you are right to hold firm on the chimmney breast - a decent sized job not to be done shabbily