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Mis-sold a property, do I sue the solicitor?

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  • A completion certificate was issued by CNC Building Control in Norwich. This was after the work was completed and they obviously took it on the owners "word" that cavity wall insulation had been fitted, when it hadn't.

    You may have a case against CNC Building Control. By the way how do you know there is no cavity wall insulation?
    RICHARD WEBSTER

    As a retired conveyancing solicitor I believe the information given in the post to be useful assuming any properties concerned are in England/Wales but I accept no liability for it.
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    To put cavity wall insulation into an extension would only cost a couple of hundred quid. Friend of mine has his whole detached house done for £250.00
  • I know I have no cavity insulation as a firm came round to quote and drilled and showed me, absolutely nothing.

    They are now doing the whole house for £170...which is good...but I still would like to pursue CNC
  • You may also be worrying unnecessarily about the other neighbour in that the problems may have resolved now the old owner has gone.

    I have always wondered how you can sue for mis selling if the neighbours who were causing problems have stopped and you are only hearing a third parties comments re this?

    Anyway I wish you well in your new home. Try not to stress about things which may not be too much of an issue if you can come to some amicable agreement ie the parking issues.
  • JQ.
    JQ. Posts: 1,919 Forumite
    dkingdom wrote: »
    I know I have no cavity insulation as a firm came round to quote and drilled and showed me, absolutely nothing.

    They are now doing the whole house for £170...which is good...but I still would like to pursue CNC

    Wow, £170 for the whole house - so at a complete guess you may be able to apportion £40 to the extension. Seriously, I would just let it drop, £40 is a drop in the ocean in the running costs of a 3 bed house. The grief and hastle involved in trying to recover that £40 would just not be worth it my opinion.
  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,081 Forumite
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    edited 30 December 2010 at 6:49PM
    dkingdom wrote: »
    I know I have no cavity insulation as a firm came round to quote and drilled and showed me, absolutely nothing.

    They are now doing the whole house for £170...which is good...but I still would like to pursue CNC

    It looks like CNC are just shared services building control for a few district councils in Norfolk. Cost savings measure rather than an independent body. I think if you raise this, they will simply revoke your certifcate and then it becomes your problem. The problem goes with the ownership of the house. You stand to shoot yourself in the foot when you come to sell on if a completion certificate has been revoked.

    They will have needed to inspect some kind of cavity wall insulation - it might be that there was insulation in place for inspection purposes but that they didn't fill the rest? I'm baffled as to why anyone would knowingly try to save money and then live in a house for 4 years without proper insulation. The relatively small cost of insulation is compensated for quickly in the bill savings. If anything, I'd say it was the building firm ripped off your vendors who thought they had it and also conned building control by showing them some in place at inspection.

    If you are going to pursue this (frankly for the cost of cavity wall insulation and the potential repurcussions I cannot see the point) then going to CNC and looking at the inspection notes (you can do this) to see if they saw it. Waste of time though, IMO. It's elementary to check insulation, I think it's dodgy builders just haven't put it in everywhere.
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
  • dkingdom
    dkingdom Posts: 13 Forumite
    Thanks all.

    Yes it was a cheap quote which already includes the government grant money off the price (via energysavingstrust.co.uk).

    Like you say, for a relatively low cost and benefit on fuel bills I will just take this one on the chin...very annoying experiencing this kind of dogding of duties tho. I cannot understand how they put up with 3 winters in the property, when it was a cheap fix.

    He'd also put fancy spotlights in the bathroom, but in the loft had gathered up all the insulation and chucked it in one corner :eek:

    Anyho, slowly finding solutions to all the "left behind" issues....that's the trouble when you downsize from a lovely 4 bed detached new build into a 3 bed ex loc auth semi :)
  • Hammyman
    Hammyman Posts: 9,913 Forumite
    dkingdom wrote: »
    Anyho, slowly finding solutions to all the "left behind" issues....that's the trouble when you downsize from a lovely 4 bed detached new build into a 3 bed ex loc auth semi :)

    Ex-LA houses are typically very good buys, being constructed to a very high minimum build quality and also having statutory minimum room and garden sizes etc etc which don't apply to private builds.
  • Running_Horse
    Running_Horse Posts: 11,809 Forumite
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    dkingdom wrote: »
    young single mum (of 4 +bump)
    dkingdom wrote: »
    we have 3 small kids
    Its amazing the different slant that can be put on similar pieces of information.
    Been away for a while.
  • flora48
    flora48 Posts: 644 Forumite
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    As a previous poster has said,if someone else has had problems with neighbours it does not mean that any issues carry on. When my neighbour's house was sold 3 years ago we were told that the new people were neighbours from hell. Tales of noise, rows, police visits etc all preceded them and guess what.. we have never heard or seen anything untoward.
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