Gas boiler query

marksoton

Yolina wrote: »

The electrics inside your flat will be your responsibility just as much as the boiler.

Ok, but from point? Wall to appliance or internally within the structure?

I'm clearly naive here and these are genuine questions trust me.

Hoploz

There will be a big switch in a cupboard somewhere, which is your electric supply. There will be a fuse box nearby. Then the cables go to each socket and appliance. From the Big Switch to your light bulb/fridge/cooker etc will be your responsibility.

There will be another supply to the common parts, which will be shared responsibility, paid by each leaseholder as a % identified in the lease, for lighting and sockets in the building but outside your flat.

Every flat will have its own independent supply.

For which each flat owner (leaseholder) will be responsible individually.

There will be cables underground into the block which are communal also. Again, shared responsibility for these.

marksoton

Hoploz wrote: »

There will be a big switch in a cupboard somewhere, which is your electric supply. There will be a fuse box nearby. Then the cables go to each socket and appliance. From the Big Switch to your light bulb/fridge/cooker etc will be your responsibility.

There will be another supply to the common parts, which will be shared responsibility, paid by each leaseholder as a % identified in the lease, for lighting and sockets in the building but outside your flat.

Every flat will have its own independent supply.

For which each flat owner (leaseholder) will be responsible individually.

There will be cables underground into the block which are communal also. Again, shared responsibility for these.

Thank you, that's as i understood it. I'm probably worrying about nothing but who's responsible for what seems vague when it comes to the cross point of my apparatus and the freeholder, and more pertinently the insurance.

AlexMac

Momentarily returning to boilers; and if you want to base your budget assumptions on our (possibly totally untypical) experience...

We've owned seven flats or houses in the last 16 years... (primary residences, a couple of BTLs and holiday flats)...

And we've had to replace boilers in six of them... in fact the only one we haven't replaced was the ancient, floor-mounted, cast-iron one which was probably 25-30 years old, still going strong when we sold on fifteen years ago... and for all we know, still is?

So, all together now... " they don't make 'em like they used to!"

So whenever we now buy, we assume we'll have to lash out £1.3k (the cheapest) to £3k (the posh one with a big pressurised cylinder) within the 1st couple of years, and budget (and offer) accordingly.

Start saving!

marksoton

AlexMac wrote: »

Momentarily returning to boilers; and if you want to base your budget assumptions on our (possibly totally untypical) experience...

We've owned seven flats or houses in the last 16 years... (primary residences, a couple of BTLs and holiday flats)...

And we've had to replace boilers in six of them... in fact the only one we haven't replaced was the ancient, floor-mounted, cast-iron one which was probably 25-30 years old, still going strong when we sold on fifteen years ago... and for all we know, still is?

So, all together now... " they don't make 'em like they used to!"

So whenever we now buy, we assume we'll have to lash out £1.3k (the cheapest) to £3k (the posh one with a big pressurised cylinder) within the 1st couple of years, and budget (and offer) accordingly.

Start saving!

Well thank you. Good to know i'm probably fcuked no matter what! :rotfl:

I guess the real lesson is to have a pretty big contingent pot.

lincroft1710

marksoton wrote: »

I guess the real lesson is to have a pretty big contingent pot.

You've just learnt the first lesson in house buying, congratulations!

The second lesson is not to believe what the estate agent or vendor tells you.

Fil57

Hi just read your blog. Please don't be offended but. Wanted to ask if you are sure vendors do not have to supply a gas safety certificate. I am really !!!!ed off with my solicitor and feel he's not working in my interest. He has already charged me a £70 charge for imndemity insurance because I am unable to find the fensa certificate for a back door I had put in 2011. I have supplied evidence that the boiler is safe by having the annual service done and I have last years paperwork to prove it was serviced its 8 yrs old. But the solicitor States it's not enough? Grateful to know if it's true or not?

Fliss

Innys1

Fil57 wrote: »

Hi just read your blog. Please don't be offended but. Wanted to ask if you are sure vendors do not have to supply a gas safety certificate. I am really !!!!ed off with my solicitor and feel he's not working in my interest. He has already charged me a £70 charge for imndemity insurance because I am unable to find the fensa certificate for a back door I had put in 2011. I have supplied evidence that the boiler is safe by having the annual service done and I have last years paperwork to prove it was serviced its 8 yrs old. But the solicitor States it's not enough? Grateful to know if it's true or not?

Fliss

Your solicitor is talking out of their posterior. As I, and others have said, a GSC is not required for a residential property.

I suggest you sack the solicitor and appoint one who knows a bit about property because that clown clearly has no idea.

His_Dudeness

Unless your solicitor also acts for your lender and the lender requires an insurance your solicitor cannot 'charge' you for an indemnity insurance: He can only advise and suggest, and you decide.

I would not bother about an indemnity insurance for a back door...

camptownraces

Vendors DO NOT have to supply a Gas Safety Certificate to a prospective purchaser. But a purchaser would expect a FENSA certificate to be provided, which indicates that an installation complies with building regulations.

Landlords DO have to supply a current Gas Safety Certificate to a tenant. But the landlord doesn't have to supply a FENSA certificate to a tenant.

Strange that some solicitors can't tell the difference.