House Purchase - Sellers Certificates Smell a Little Fishy... Advice please

tizerbelle

davidmcn wrote: »

Given that the vast majority of houses have no certification for the wiring or heating and sell without difficulty, I'm not persuaded that there is any difference in value. I would put this paperwork in the category of "nice to have, but hardly essential".

Wouldn't bother me either - in fact it hasn't in both the homes I've bought - but it's an option and if it hadn't been in the list, someone else would have said but you forgot the renegotiate option. I was damned either way

TBH the vendor may just tell jimmgc51 to go jump if he goes for option 3 or 4 and that is his/her perogative and jimmgc51 will have to decide if its worth losing the house he wants for a few hundred quid (if that)

Thrugelmir

jimmgc51 wrote: »

3. Building Control Completion Certificate

A problem I encountered a while back. If there's no Part P then here certainly won't be a BCCC.

MabelinSussex

this is my first post here. hello!

i had to join after reading your post because the last house i bought had dodgy wiring. the house previously had tenants in it so the vendor feigned he didn't know about the problems i later found out about. the tenants had had with things short circuiting, two power points turned out to be unusable because of damp and mold which they had tried to paint over after the survey and another occasionally blew up whatever was plugged into it. it's true the house hadn't burnt down but it came close enough to it!!

my surveyor hadn't picked up the damp which later led down a payout from them to cover the cost of the damp work being fixed. electrics aren't my forte but I was told the two power points were very dangerous because the wiring was a bit exposed. the electrician who did the repair work suspected mice??

this is probably the extreme of dodgy wiring but it cost me a few grand to get things fixed.

i would trust your instinct here.
:T:T

marlot

MabelinSussex wrote: »

...I was told the two power points were very dangerous because the wiring was a bit exposed. the electrician who did the repair work suspected mice??

Hello, and welcome.

If it was mice, the wiring may have been fine when it was done, and up to certificate standards.

A good illustration that having the certificates doesn't guarantee the wiring is still safe.

Annie1960

I had my house rewired when I moved in during the 1980s, so it is certainly not up to modern standards.

However, my wiring is safe.

If you have any doubts, get an electrician to check the wiring for safety.

ConfusedofYorkshire

I think I'd always get the electrics checked. I know a couple of people who didnt and it proved expensive.

Gordon_Hose

I'd have no issue with the lack of 'certificates'. I would just complete then get it checked, I wouldn't be demanding the vendors pay.

millysg1

Hi, my husband is an electrician. I know now he has to report all certification to the NICEIC and they come and review him yearly to check he is doing it up to standard. You can get copies of these certificates online here
http://www.checkmynotification.com/
Not sure how far this goes back though but if they got it certified but then just lost the piece of paper, you might find reference to it here.
Good luck.

yorkshire_terrier_owner

My current house had had a partial rewire and new consumer unit which the vendors had no paperwork for. I had the electrics checked by my own electrician who has given it the all clear. I have since had a further partial rewire done, but that was because I had rooms gutted and wanted extra sockets so it was worth doing while floors were up etc.

I do however have the paperwork/building regs for the CH system they had installed.

Missing certificates wouldn't put me off buying a property - I would just use my own trusted tradesmen to check things out.

chanz4

you could also have a bent engineer that would just issue one proves nothing other than that day it was safe