Electrical inspection report

2010bubba

Hi
Just after some advice please, had electrical inspection carried out on house yesterday.....we are 9 weeks into sale and purchase.... home buyers report done 3 weeks ago and gas inspection done. Both recommended from survey.

Electrical bought up some issues......new fuse box...some old wiring...couple plugs have issues. Electrician was nice guy who explained problems are things that we would not have been aware off and would do his report and estimate for work and advise buyer.

Question is what should we expect now we was originally looking at exchange and completion end may .... buyer offered full asking price thanks

ReadingTim

The buyers may use the results of one or more of the surveys to knock the price down on account of any "issues" raised. If that happens, you then have to decide whether you reduce the price, or not, and potentially jeopardise the sale.

Otherwise, their solicitor will have started the searches, and you, via your solicitor, will have to respond to any queries raised.

Basically, you're reactive, so sit back and wait. And maybe expect the unexpected....

Robin9

Do as little as possible - it may be that your buyer will be rearranging / redecorating your house.

As a gesture do repair what is dangerous - you have to live there for a while longer.

DumbMuscle

If the buyer raises any issues, and wants to reduce the price, you have (broadly) 3 options:

Accept the reduction in price
Agree to fix the issues at your own cost before completion
Reject the reduction (or propose a lesser reduction)

Which of these you choose depends on how hard you're willing to negotiate, and how much effort you're willing to put in.

If the buyer doesn't raise any issues (which they may well not do if there's nothing dangerous, or if they were planning to renovate anyway), then there's no need for you to do anything, just sit back and let the solicitors do their work.

G_M

When you say 'new fuse box', do you mean it needs one, or it has one?

And if it needs one, why? Is it an old-style with fuse wire? Or just not bang up to date with current building regs?

ThePants999

Entirely up to your buyer what happens as a result.

On our most recent purchase, we got an electrical condition report that raised exactly the same sort of stuff. As buyers, we decided that none of it caused the house to be worth less than we'd offered, so it didn't affect the process at all, just gave us some stuff to sort out after we moved in.

(Sadly, we got the same guy back to do the work he'd recommend and he was an absolute disaster, with multiple tradesmen since saying they've never seen such awful work, but that's a topic for another thread sometime )

Hoof_Hearted

Electricity standards keep moving and most houses over 10 years old probably don't meet the latest standards. It doesn't mean they are unsafe.

2010bubba

Thanks for all your comments will take them on board ��
Yes the fuse box apparently doesn't meet new regs it's about 8/9 years old.....house is a 1930s house
We are going to get another electrician to look over it just to check all the same faults.
We haven't heard anything today from buyer so fingers crossed ......the electrician said he would supply report and quote for work by today.

We would also be willing to split the cost if the buyer requested as a think this would be fair. Solicitor rang today to update that all is going well hoping for completion end may still just hope this doesn't hold it up.

Thanks again ��

anniecave

I bought a house almost a year ago now. On my house buying survey it commented on the electrics - it's an old style box with fuses - and said it wasn't up to date etc.


As far as I was concerned that was something to be expected (house was built in 1980s) and I didn't even pursue it further. I wouldn't have expected the seller to do any work.

I've been here almost a year and I've exchanged one dimmer switch for a normal light switch but other than that I've done nothing to the electrics as everything is working fine.


When you say plugs have issues, do you mean sockets? If there are things such as sockets hanging off walls or obviously dangerous things then that is different.

dimbo61

Question is do you have an old fashioned fuse board with wire fuses or an RCB board which trips if any faults ?
If the property has very old electrics and round light switches ! Old wiring then a full rewire maybe needed ? £3/4,000
If however you have got an RCB board then the electrics could be fine just not upto 2017 standards

G_M

2010bubba wrote: »

Thanks for all your comments will take them on board
Yes the fuse box apparently doesn't meet new regs it's about 8/9 years old.....house is a 1930s house

In that case it definately needs changing.

Along with 99 out of every other 100 houses in the country!

For goodness sake, time to get real!

Building Regs are there to control the quality/standards of new buildings and new alterations. They are NOT a test of what is safe or acceptable in the existing housing stock.

My house was built in 1851. The foundations are shallow, as was typical at the time. Building Regs today would require foundations twice the depth. Yet this house has stood here for 150+ years.

Should I knock down the house, retro-dig deeper foundations, and then rebuild the house.......? I think not.

Is the house dangerous? About to collapse? Again...........