Selling House - No Certificates for Double Glazing +

joed72

Hi
Currently in the process of selling our house and we have been asked for Building Regs Approval or Fensa certification for the Double Glazed windows we had installed in 2002.

The Window company never gave use any kind of certification or Building regs so I'm not sure what to do with this. I wasn't aware that Building Regs Approval was needed for Double Glazing to be installed.

Also, we had a boiler installed in 2002 as well but no certificate was ever given to us by the company as they went bankrupt in early 2003 when we were still having other works done by them.

What would the best plan of action be to have these works certified?

csgohan4

tell them the above , which is the truth, if they want a boiler certified and windows ensured are of good standard, they should pay for it

JoJo1978

Fensa certification rules came in April 2002 so if you installed before April you won't have one. On the boiler the buyer can have a gas safety check for not much money. You're not obliged to hold a current certificate for the sale to go through. Just been through both these with our buyer!

Davesnave

Solicitors love to ask for this stuff.

Just tell them the windows are pre-April 2002 and that the boiler has been serviced by Gas Safe engineers and not deemed unsafe. If they want an engineer's report on the boiler, it'll cost them about £125 to arrange.

RedFraggle

JoJo1978 wrote: »

Fensa certification rules came in April 2002 so if you installed before April you won't have one. On the boiler the buyer can have a gas safety check for not much money. You're not obliged to hold a current certificate for the sale to go through. Just been through both these with our buyer!

Just to add, doesn't have to be Fensa it's building reg approval which can be fensa, or certass which are schemes for suppliers/installers to meet the building reg requirements or direct through the local council building control.

AdrianC

Davesnave wrote: »

...and that the boiler has been serviced by Gas Safe engineers and not deemed unsafe. If they want an engineer's report on the boiler, it'll cost them about £125 to arrange.

And the report will certainly say "Not to current standards"... because the standards have changed since the boiler was installed.

hazyjo

Just get indemnity policies for both. It's pretty standard.


I would take a 15 year old boiler as being on its last legs anyway and would be budgeting for a new one. Certainly wouldn't be getting reports done about it.