Help -vendor threatening to call a hault to everything over electrical testing!

olly300

If your vendor has installed an electrical shower, put in extra power points or extra lighting particularly in the kitchen after the MK fuse board was installed then unless he has records to show a qualified electrican did it get them tested.

My place has a modern MK fuse board and the vendors didn't do any of the electrics themselves (could tell by their various extension cables all over the place) , therefore my survey came back as the wiring being installed properly and not requiring testing. As soon as I moved in I got some electricians round to have a look at installing some more power points as I didn't want to drill through brick walls, and they concluded that the original work had been done properly.

Again with the central heating if the vendor cannot provide service records to your solicitor then the boiler has not been serviced.

Doozergirl

CFC, I'm really glad that someone has stated what, to me, seems obvious. Rather than going crazy because he knows there is something woring with the wiring and is trying to kill the OP, the vendor is twitchy because they've already had a buyer pull out and they've lost time and money.

People don't buy and sell houses everyday so there is rarely any deliberate manipulation involved; In the vast, vast majortiy of cases, people are nervous and their strange threats are the only way they feel they have to try to protect themselves.

It's what the vendor is doing. I would just carry on, apologise as you've done as I can kind of see why he's a bit miffed - only 1 in 5 people have surveys carried out and I wouldn't expect an electrical test unless the survey had highlighted it.

OP, I don't think you're wrong at all, but I do see that your vendor is simply scared of the survey bringing something up - even I worry when I know I've done eveything possible to get it to pass with flying colours!

Carry on as you are; he will calm down.

terrierlady

yes it is your fault, thanks to us all you have become a money expert wise guy, by looking and learning how to deal with bullys like this, the beauty of this site it teaches you how to deal with misfits like this vendor, well done stick to your guns you are perfectly in order to do what you have done.

sortofok

Your tolerance and understanding does you credit Dooz.

But the man is an uncivilised bully

A creature I despise

He is lucky to have such a sensitive buyer

Doozergirl

I don't know what people are like *before* they sell houses but most of them turn into something akin to a caged animal; completely unpredictable, irrational and prone to lashing out. It gets worse if they've been let down.

The only way to get past it is to ignore any threats, don't retaliate and relish in the fact that their house will look far better under your ownership than it ever did in theirs