Fensa Certficate

pinkteapot

You can get a copy of a FENSA certificate for £12:

http://www.fensa.co.uk/asp/certificate.asp

Without paying, you can put in your address on the page above to see if there is a certificate available.

If not, you can try finding out who the installer was but based on the job it sounds like they did, I doubt you'll get far.

TBagpuss

I don't think FENSA cover conservatories so there wouldn't be a certificate for that, even if there was for any other windows in the house.

Catti

From the FENSA website:
Porches and Conservatories: Porches and Conservatories do not generally come under the FENSA registration scheme. Both Porches and Conservatories MUST comply with the glazing requirements of Approved Document N (for Wales) or K4 (for England) for safety glazing to be installed in critical locations.
Conservatories are exempt from the other parts of the building regulations if the following apply:

It is for domestic use only
It is built at ground level
It contains no sleeping accommodation
The roof and walls are glazed with translucent or transparent materials (roof 75%, walls 50% excluding any existing walls.
The floor area is less than 30m² (internal floor area)
The construction of the conservatory does not affect the existing drainage system.
The conservatory if heated; must have separate heating controls.

So:
Even if you had indemnity insurance, that would only cover you if there was action for not having appropriate building control consent - it wouldn't help with any repairs.

If you weren't given a copy of any guarantee, then it's likely just to be up to you to sort out, and no one to blame.

sharon7_2

If I am selling my house, would I need to provide the vendors with a copy of the fensa certificate? Many thanks

DRP

sharon7 wrote: »

If I am selling my house, would I need to provide the vendors with a copy of the fensa certificate? Many thanks

As a vendor you might need to provide a copy to your buyers

pinkteapot

sharon7 wrote: »

If I am selling my house, would I need to provide the vendors with a copy of the fensa certificate? Many thanks

Your buyers are very likely to ask for it.

Our buyers asked. Our solicitor phoned me and said "Can I download it from the FENSA site and add £12 to your bill?" I said "Yep."

I could have told the buyers to download a copy for themselves to try and save the £12, but it didn't really seem worth it, in the grand scheme of house-moving costs!