Urgent Help needed

Mallotum_X

I'd go with with the 12k but no more. Maybe a shot back via the agent that you will be putting it back up for viewings for the bank holiday weekend.

We are hitting the busiest time of year for house viewings/sales so unless you are in a totally dead area they will also know this.

Sounds like they are trying it on. You are being fair with the 12k but any more is cheeky.

boysim34

First thanks for all your comments. yes my grandmother is on deferred payments so we are ok there. the test and quote for the red ash and the work was carried out by the same company. just one other point to everyone, get a power of attorney done, with out this we would have been stuck, best thing we did and it can be free if the person is on certain benefits. and it has been classed as class 3, just our luck

eddddy

boysim34 wrote: »

... and it has been classed as class 3, just our luck

That's a shame!

But still remember that it was classified by a company that want the business of repairing it. An independent company might give it a lower classification.

It sounds like it may be a difficult sale whichever way you go.

Was red ash widely used in the area? Your EA may be able to advise on how it's affected other house sale prices, mortgageability etc.

teddysmum

Ask people in newly acquired nearby properties what their red ash situation was.


We did this when worried that the buyer of my late father's bungalow said they wanted a test drilling done. This cost us nothing as the buyer's father worked for the council and took his own sample, but we weren't worried (test was negative) as no neighbours had a problem and all houses were built by the same company.

Hoploz

How did this come up? Did a standard survey suggest it first due to uneven floors? Or did they just randomly decide to get this specialist company in?

I can't believe I've never heard of this. Nearly all my life I've lived in houses built during that era, including now!

eddddy

Hoploz wrote: »

I can't believe I've never heard of this. Nearly all my life I've lived in houses built during that era, including now!

It seems red ash is a waste product from the coal mining industry - burnt colliery shale - which was used as hardcore. So it was only used around coal mining areas. I guess there weren't so many coal mines in Surrey!

(In Surrey, they probably used the burnt waste products from the investment banking industry as hardcore instead. Perhaps burnt out Range Rover Evoques, Boxster GTSs, crushed Dom Perignon bottles etc.)


(Sorry OP - just a bit of humour, I'm not meaning to trivialise your situation.)

Hoploz

Ah-ha, that would explain it! Yes we are all built on stashes of gold bullion actually! LOL

Got me worrying for a bit there - I obviously know to observe whether concrete floors are level or cracked but hadn't heard of this as a reason which could be terminal!

OP how did it come up? On a standard survey? Or did the buyer do a test off his own back?