Unknown electrical works?! raised by buyer

hammy1988

Good morning all

This is my first post and I am requesting opinions/thoughts.

We are currently selling our house (under offer) and the buyers keep raising enquiries again and again. One of them that keeps flagging up is a request for an electrical certificate for work completed in 2006.

However, we did not purchase the said house until 2012 and have no knowledge of any work completed? I have scrutinised all documents that were given to us when we purchased the property, but other than a rewiring document for 2005, there is nothing else to suggest any work. I'm starting to tear my hair out for this, as I literally have no idea what the work could be...?

Any thoughts? Or do I just keep repeating myself and saying that I do not know the answer? Or is there any way of finding out what the work may have been?

Thanks all

anselld

If you keep saying you don't know they will probably keep asking.
Either say there was no work to the best of your knowledge, or there was work but the certificate is not available. Your Solicitor should be responding for you unless you are self-conveyancing.

MisterP123

What do you mean by rewiring document? Was the house rewired in 2005? Was a test certificate issued?

Not that it's worth much 12 years later. It'll be well out of compliance by now.

ProDave

What they are aluding to, is since 2006, SOME electrical work ha required a building control part P certificate.

If no work has been done, no certificate is needed, so just tell them no work has been done since the rewire.

I assume the document you have for the rewire is an EIC Electrical Installation Certificate, which all work should have even before part P.

MisterP123

ProDave wrote: »

What they are aluding to, is since 2006, SOME electrical work ha required a building control part P certificate.

If no work has been done, no certificate is needed, so just tell them no work has been done since the rewire.

This seems feasible. I don't get involved in Part Pee so don't know the ins and outs of it.

hammy1988

Yes, thank you are correct, we do have the EIC form from the rewire.

This is the question relayed from the enquiry =

'3. The buyers solicitor has informed us that the works detailed for 2013 were of 2006, did you have electrical works taken out at the property in 2006?'

They have said that some work was logged in 2013...as having work done in 2006...? Is it just me or this confusing?!?! Logged in 2013, but from work done in 2006?

This is what confused me. I've decided I'm just going to keep pushing that I am unaware of any work that has been done, surely they can understand that we didn't purchase the house until 2012, and being uninformed first time buyers (our own faults) didn't think about anything like this.

Still baffled though as to why it was logged in 2013, for work in 2006?

Thanks for the information, all helps!

MisterP123

Just give them a copy of the NICEIC cert from the rewire and explain that it's the only electrical works that have ever been carried out on the property and was done before you bought it.

The work was only registered at the time you bought it. The previous vendors were covering their asss! Hence the odd dates.

Odds are, they didn't have it certified properly first off, coming time to sell they managed to get a report which estimated to when the work was done.

hammy1988

That makes a lot of sense MrP! Thank you!!