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Buyer demanding boiler fix right before exchange

Razzle36 · 2018-07-30 12:02:17

Apologies in advance for the length of this post. So before putting our flat on the market we had the boiler serviced and a defect was found - a perforated expansion vessel. At the time we booked the service we had no clue anything was wrong, the heating and hot water was (and still is) working fine. The engineer showed us…

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csgohan4 Posts: 10,600 Forumite

4 September 2018 at 6:18AM

lottiecochrane wrote: »

Just in case anyone else finds this thread and is in a similar position (or for the kind people who replied and were interested in a follow-up)...

I spoke to my partner about paying for the boiler and she still refused to pay and said we should try saying no one last time - we did just that and the matter was dropped.

It was a bit of a risky move and if it was just my decision I would have just paid, but it all worked out well in the end. We exchanged and completed successfully and are now in our new home, with a bit of extra cash to spend on our own new boiler.

Might not work out all the time, you gambled and it turned out ok

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