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Can we ask them to do this??
juleslula
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Hi,
We have had an offer accepted on a house.
When we looked round, I noticed a smell of gas coming from the gas boiler. Today, I asked the Estate Agents to ask the vendors when they last had the gas boiler serviced. In the 11 years they have been there, they have never had it serviced.
I really feel that it needs servicing, and that there may be something wrong with the boiler.
Can we expect the vendors to pay for a service/any repair work that needs doing in order to make the gas system safe? Or is it all down to us now? No contracts drawn up yet or anything.
Thanks for answering...I'm struggling as a first time buyer who is unsure of everything!!
Jules. x
We have had an offer accepted on a house.
When we looked round, I noticed a smell of gas coming from the gas boiler. Today, I asked the Estate Agents to ask the vendors when they last had the gas boiler serviced. In the 11 years they have been there, they have never had it serviced.
I really feel that it needs servicing, and that there may be something wrong with the boiler.
Can we expect the vendors to pay for a service/any repair work that needs doing in order to make the gas system safe? Or is it all down to us now? No contracts drawn up yet or anything.
Thanks for answering...I'm struggling as a first time buyer who is unsure of everything!!
Jules. x
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IDK.....maybe the correct thing would have been to mention to the vendors when you looked around. after all.....surely a gas leak is dangerous!My home is usually the House Buying, Renting and Selling Forum where I can be found trying to (sometimes unsucessfully) prove that not all Estate Agents are crooks. With 20 years experience of Sales/Lettings and having bought and sold many of my own properties I've usually got something to say
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When we recently bought our house (scotland may be different in england) there was a clause that we had five working days after moving in to complain about the boiler/central heating system. If we complained in that timeframe then the vendor was liable to get the problem fixed.0
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Is your offer "subject to survey"?
Send a gas surveryor/inspector/maintenance guy in to find out what condition the boiler is in, what sort of work needs doing and how much it's going to cost.0 -
Yeah...it is subject to survey. We are happy to get a boiler person in to survey it. I wonder who has to pay for any remedial work though?0
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Thanks for all your replies. Will get it checked out ASAP.0
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Personally, I wouldn't be offering to contribute a penny. If they are stupid enough to neglect the boiler for 11 years they ought to pay for the lot. And I'd be sending an electrician round with the gas dude too... you never know what else they couldn't be bothered to deal with.↑ Things I wouldn't say to your face
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This is an interesting question as I would like a gas person to go round to the property I have offered on , do we just ring the EA and try and organise a time to send them round?0
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Can we go with them? (Yes I am dying to see the house again and the gas person is actually a friend who is a registered gas man as well so he will be doing the checks)0
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Yeah...it is subject to survey. We are happy to get a boiler person in to survey it. I wonder who has to pay for any remedial work though?
If it turns out to need remedial work that you haven't already anticipated, and you're not put off by the hassle of major works, than I would suggest you revise your offer to take that into account.
Anything else will be far too complicated, tricky and liable to go horribly wrong.0
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