Sold a house with a dangerous boiler! Where do I stand legally?

ognum

OP, sorry you took offence at posts by two regular posters here who give great advice. They are both worth listening to and have helped many, many posters.

Did your solicitor ask for the Building Regs compliance certificate for he boiler. Did you get it inspected?

What is written on your paperwork from the vendor?

pinkshoes

marksoton wrote: »

There is no paperwork, there never will be any paperwork. The OP is flying in the wind of a casual question.

And even if there was it doesn't make it enforceable.

So, and i'm now even getting annoyed myself. Buy a new boiler.

When we sold our house last year, there was a Q on the seller information pack about the boiler, and if it had been serviced we had to supply the paperwork.

csgohan4

pinkshoes wrote: »

When we sold our house last year, there was a Q on the seller information pack about the boiler, and if it had been serviced we had to supply the paperwork.

Even If they ticked no, it isn't still mandatory to provide a boiler cert prior to exchange

marksoton

pinkshoes wrote: »

When we sold our house last year, there was a Q on the seller information pack about the boiler, and if it had been serviced we had to supply the paperwork.

I don't doubt it. But the OP isn't claiming that. It was verbal, and besides i'd be amazed if they'd successfully claim anyway.

I'll be honest, the OP got my back up by being shirty and mentioning compo. Hence my responses.

csgohan4

Poppie68

Petra_70 wrote: »

I am really sorry for your troubles ladymagpie, and it is indeed frustrating to move into a property and suddenly find 1000s of pounds needs spending on it. Happens a LOT though. Some people wait until everything is on the verge of packing up in their house, and stuff needs replacing/repairing, and then sell it.

I'm afraid there really is very little you can do if the boiler is no good. However, if someone said they were a CORGI registered fitter and they weren't, and they faked a safety certificate, you may have some recourse. However, it will be difficult to pull off so to speak, as you will need to find who it was, and it will be a real game trying to take action against them.

Looks like you may need to get a new boiler.

On the positive side, you will have a shiny new boiler that will last YEARS.










There is absolutely NO NEED for such rude and condescending remarks. It's 2016, not 1956, and men talking to women like that is just embarrassing. I can't believe that this still happens. Women have worked so hard for so many years to be high achievers and to get respect, and then some misogynistic caveman comes on and talks to a woman like this. If you spoke to me like this in my place of work, you would be issued with a written warning. Call me all the whiney, moany women moaning about my' UMAN rights til you are blue in the face. You are not important enough for me to care.

By the way, the username 'marksoton' started on the OP, and then the username 'GM' answered a post directed at 'marksoton.' Better make sure which username you're logged in under before responding to posters in future. You have given yourself away there.

Dear God woman put your bra back on.... is comments like yours that throw women back to pre Emmaline Pankhurst days..


Marksoton and GM are having a laugh....I expect you think nothing of calling men names or otherwise but you get overheated when they dare do it to you!

dirty_magic

Why does every post on here lately seem to turn into an argument? There's no need for it, anyone new that posts anything gets shot down in flames. It's possible to disagree with someone without introducing a load of drama.

OP I think it's a waste of effort pursuing this. Get a 0% money transfer credit card and get a new boiler sorted and put it down to experience.

Poppie68

economic wrote: »

no problem. get back on here once you found out.

keep in mind this forum is not a specialist forum (and really is akin to asking for advice from randoms down the pub) so i would seriosuly look at more dedicated websites (such as landlordzone).

Maybe not a specialist forum like but many who give their time and experience to help and strangely enough there's a fair few Gas engineers knocking about.

patman99

Op, if you are still following your own thread, you went about approaching the problem the wrong way.

You NEVER ask a plumber/electrician/gas engineer to quote on repairing a botched self-install. The average tradesman will never consider attempting to repair a botch job and will turn the work down flat.

Instead, you need to ask them to quote for a new boiler install c/w boiler relocation (a common place to put a boiler these days is in the loft).
Depending on the boiler, you will be paying-out £1,400 - £2,000 for something like a Worcester-Bosch or Valiant (or similar) and will then have a boiler with a 7 - 10 year warranty.

Depending on the age of the central heating, it may well be prudent to also ask for a quote on a powerflush (especcially as if the boiler was a DIY install, there's nothing to state the whole central heating system was not also a DIY job).

Whatever you choose, ask the installer to fit a 'Magna-clense' to keep your system running nice and debris-free.

For the record.
An un-trained person may, if installing it in their own home, purchase and fit a gas boiler without the need to first obtain a GasSafe certificate or to have the work signed-off by a GasSafe engineer.

owever, it is a criminal offence to allow a non-GasSafe registered engineer to fit a gas appliance in a house not owned by them (UNLESS their employer uses GasSafe inspectors to carry-out inspections on at least 1 in5 of the engineer's installations. In which case, the engineers is deemed to be working under close supervision, so no GasSafe certicicate is required).

It is actually quite gualling that someone, without any training at all, can actually buy and fit a gas boiler (or indeed any gas appliance).
It is the equivalent of asking someone who has no areo-engineering experiance to bolt the engines onto a jumbo jet. They can do the job by following a few printed instructions, but can they do it properly?.

marksoton

dirty_magic wrote: »

Why does every post on here lately seem to turn into an argument? There's no need for it, anyone new that posts anything gets shot down in flames. It's possible to disagree with someone without introducing a load of drama.

OP I think it's a waste of effort pursuing this. Get a 0% money transfer credit card and get a new boiler sorted and put it down to experience.

It's not lately, it's time immortal...

So as advised. Buy a new boiler. JAFC.