Survey results - Need a new roof

dave82_2

beige sounds good ours is green at the moment!

Janie1975

Mmmm...a nice avacado green! hey...retro is back in ;-)

Tom_Jones

Without knowing the size of your property


Reroof plus new timbers and purlins - 10k assuming you use the old slates
Electrics - 3k
Boiler - 2k
Damp proof course -1k you need to do the whole house
Woodwoorm treatment - 2k

So buy the house for 210k, at the most, if not walk away, show the owner your survey when you knock the price down.

Janie1975

Thanks Tom, we have already budgeted for boiler, electrics etc. It is the roof that is the main surprise and the DPC doesn't seem to be as expensive as I thought thank goodness!
Just have to wait for the quotes to come in and we can definitely reuse the slate tiles as I spoke to surveyor and most of them are fine so fingers crossed now. I had in my mind a figure of around £10K, as Dave 82 said, double whatever you think!!
Just have to wait now and hopefully get it sorted asap as we were wanting to exchange and complete by end of January as we have people waiting to move into our current house!!

Mankysteve

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Agreed, walk away from it, why buy a house that is full of serious problems?.

If the woodworm has spread to the other properties it will likely come back and infest the new roof.

And if its got into the floor joist as well.

Agreed with the walk away. Unless you can get a very good deal.

Get a full structural survey done before you commit.

ormus

my first reaction is to walk away too.
a basic re roof will cost you 5/7k.
the wood/timber parts another 2/3k.

say 10k in all. so i would want a 20k reduction minimum.

dizziblonde

Might be worth actually talking to the surveyor (if they're ameanable to that). We got the survey back on our place and it read dreadfully - but the surveyor had already called us up and said, "look this is what actually needs doing - I've got to put all possibilities in the survey to cover my back but basically apart from X and Y the house is OK and I'd go ahead and buy it." Once we got the survey back and I panicked - we rang him again and he went through point by point on what he'd seen and what he thought of each point. Even gave us ballpark figures of what we'd be looking at to fix X Y and Z... obviously not all are as helpful and I appreciate we fell on our feet with that guy.

And yes, ours does need a new roof in the nearish future - his words on the phone were, "it's got about 10 years left in it"... we knew this when we made the offer in our case though.

Janie1975

Thanks all for the input, quick update.

Got some specialists around over Xmas and not actually as bad as first thought.

Quotation includes

¶ Scaffold on both sides of the property
¶ Stripping the roof
¶ Remove and replace any timbers effected by woodworm
¶ Spray all remaining timbers (as precaution)
¶ Lay gortex felt
¶ Fit new lats
¶ Relay roof slates
¶ Relay ridges and point
¶ Skip hire
¶ Labour
£5400 + VAT

DPC not required, two new gutters need replacing :-)

Vendor agreed he will come down on price a little more, and he is going to get his own quote too, so fingers crossed it should all go to plan :-)

Thanks.

Janie