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New House Questions
Beefy2013
Posts: 1 Newbie
Good day!
Me and my partner have had our offer accepted for our first house. The vendors are lovely and very accommodating.
Upon receiving our home buyers survey, it has come back with only 2 points of any concern.
1 - There is a raised drive next to the fence and this is obviously moved over x amount of time and is forcing the fence to bulge (this fence belongs to our potential house). In the survey it states that this will cause the fence to collapse over time. Obviously this is very worrying.
Could this drive that belongs to our neighbour have set now and it wont cause the fence to collapse (the house is on a hill so I would expect some settlement with new buildings/drives? What is best cause of action? We have raised this point to the vendor and they are apparently looking into this and getting someone to shor up the fence.
2 - The house is a 2005 build. In the report we had, the surveyor has written about the drive covering up some of the blue bricks, I believe these are the engineering bricks? Now looking at many other houses most of them don't have 2 bricks above the ground showing so I am confused about this.
Now could this be down to a regulation change, maybe in 2005 this would have been acceptable? The house and drive was built at the same time so one would presume it was perfectly acceptable at the time?
The surveyor has us worried because in the report he stated that because the blue bricks are not 2 above the ground it may cause damp.
Me and my partner are worriers, and obviously fencing collapsing and damp are things that could have a massive impact on our pockets should we need to hand out the cash to resolve the problems.
I am in the mind set that the points I raised are merely put in the report as a CYA (cover your !!!!) exercise for the surveyor? Maybe so we have no comeback should damp occur.
I would be grateful for any input from any of you angels :A that know a lot about the points raised to add some reassurance.
We love the house but don't want to buy something that could be damaged by damp or collapsing fences.
We still want to go ahead with the purchase, however what would our next step be?
Sorry I understand it's hard to give a reply without any images, but hopefully I have described it well enough.
Many thanks
Me and my partner have had our offer accepted for our first house. The vendors are lovely and very accommodating.
Upon receiving our home buyers survey, it has come back with only 2 points of any concern.
1 - There is a raised drive next to the fence and this is obviously moved over x amount of time and is forcing the fence to bulge (this fence belongs to our potential house). In the survey it states that this will cause the fence to collapse over time. Obviously this is very worrying.
Could this drive that belongs to our neighbour have set now and it wont cause the fence to collapse (the house is on a hill so I would expect some settlement with new buildings/drives? What is best cause of action? We have raised this point to the vendor and they are apparently looking into this and getting someone to shor up the fence.
2 - The house is a 2005 build. In the report we had, the surveyor has written about the drive covering up some of the blue bricks, I believe these are the engineering bricks? Now looking at many other houses most of them don't have 2 bricks above the ground showing so I am confused about this.
Now could this be down to a regulation change, maybe in 2005 this would have been acceptable? The house and drive was built at the same time so one would presume it was perfectly acceptable at the time?
The surveyor has us worried because in the report he stated that because the blue bricks are not 2 above the ground it may cause damp.
Me and my partner are worriers, and obviously fencing collapsing and damp are things that could have a massive impact on our pockets should we need to hand out the cash to resolve the problems.
I am in the mind set that the points I raised are merely put in the report as a CYA (cover your !!!!) exercise for the surveyor? Maybe so we have no comeback should damp occur.
I would be grateful for any input from any of you angels :A that know a lot about the points raised to add some reassurance.
We love the house but don't want to buy something that could be damaged by damp or collapsing fences.
We still want to go ahead with the purchase, however what would our next step be?
Sorry I understand it's hard to give a reply without any images, but hopefully I have described it well enough.
Many thanks
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