House sale without Electrical Certificates...

tired_dad

isn't there insurance that covers these things. Solicitors usually charge a small fee for this and often much cheaper than getting building control involved.

FilthyLuka

Even if the electrical works were carried out before 2005 they should still have an electrical installation certificate

The works may not have been notifiable prior to 2005 but any competent installer would have tested the installation in line with BS7671

Kenty7

Yes you can get insurance through your solicitors for this, it's called indemnity insurance and costs about £20. However the buyer wants it checking so that's the hoop i now have to jump through.

It's a 2 bed semi, relatively small property. I've now had 3 quotes, all from well rated folks online and they're £75 (oddly the best rated), £140+VAT and £120.

I'm using the same solicitors i did when i bought this property and there definately doesn't seem to be anything on file, but there's nothing to force you to get certification really, whilst it might be legally required and certainly is good practice, there's nothing to physically "Stop" Joe Bloggs rewiring his whole house should he so desire.

Other than common sense of course!

Mankysteve

If the house sale has all ready gone though and finalist tell him to oscar foxtrot.

Kenty7

It hasn't! I should be so lucky lol!

fluffpot

Be wary of the 'online' so called rated trades - there's plenty of threads on here about how they are not!

Kenty7

Point taken! I work for a large company and know all about online "ratings"! In the end i've gone for a slightly higher fee with someone i know, we'll see how we get on.

To top it all, the flaming survey has come back reporting damp on 4 walls at a cost of about £900 to repair. Lovely, just what i needed!

Here's hoping the chap still wants it, or i'll have wasted a fair amount of money on a non-existent sale.

Leif

Kenty7 wrote: »

To top it all, the flaming survey has come back reporting damp on 4 walls at a cost of about £900 to repair. Lovely, just what i needed!

What is the cause of the damp? If it's condensation, then find the cause of humidity.

Kenty7

As ever they're calling it rising damp, but luckily for me this doesn't seem to bother the buyer, they're happy enough to pay for that.

macman

Kenty7 wrote: »

Big wins if you're the buyer, not so good if you're selling!

I think that it's only the most recent wiring that's date stamped but i will have a look and see, but i think it's more the buyer wanting to see some certification rather than the solicitors, so (I don't think) the issue of legal requirement is being entereded into, just that of the buyer insisting he wants to see it.

The house is sale agreed subject to contract, nothing signed yet so it's not done, that would've made things easy! I could have just chosen to say "not my problem" from then on!

Ah well, fingers crossed it all goes through without a hitch, £70 won't kill me.

Though it'll leave me £70 poorer :-(

But the only reason the prospective buyer would ask for this is to subsequently screw the price down when it's found to be not up to current regs (which is obviously won't be).
Why would you subsidise his attempt to negotiate?
If he really wants the property, he'll happily pay the £70.