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"Not ordinary construction"?
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lincroft1710 wrote: »I think you need to change "Lincroft" to "Airey" in your first post!
Embarrassing, sorry :embarasse I have a university degree, an A level in English language, and evidently the concentration of a goldfish!
Indeed. I have emailed my contact at Nationwide who did our AIP, and will await his reply. This would probably be a very long term buy though. Ideally, the sort of place I'm carried out of in a box, if the blonde moments don't get me firstlincroft1710 wrote: »You will have two problems if you want to buy this house, getting a mortgage (even if you can locate a repair certificate) and if you have to sell on at a later date, buyers will be cautious.
© Cuilean 2005. Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.0 -
My guess would be that the council have not repaired these houses. The ones that still look like airey houses are probably the ones still owned by the council. The ones with brick facades are probably privately owned houses that were bought under Right to Buy and then refurbished at the owners expense. So they should still have the paperwork about what was done and whether it was done to standard or not.Changing the world, one sarcastic comment at a time.0
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Embarrassing, sorry :embarasse I have a university degree, an A level in English language, and evidently the concentration of a goldfish!
That's one more than me, I don't have a degree!If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales0 -
You will need to establish exactly what "repair" works were done.
The Aireys I have worked on in the past had all the concrete panels and columns completely removed and new brick and block cavity walls built, so they are now traditional build (except party wall obviously).
I would be surprised if someone went to the trouble of building a new brick skin and left the defective concrete frame.0
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