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Vendor digging heels over Damp & timber survey

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  • ReadingTim wrote: »
    Let's hope if they do return, they'll have the good grace to admit they got the wrong end of the stick completely, and ran away with it.... (to mix metaphors).

    Takes a lot to stand up, admit you were wrong and take it on the chin.

    A life lesson fewer and fewer people seem to learn these days
  • SG27
    SG27 Posts: 2,773 Forumite
    edited 11 September 2018 at 2:22PM
    Surrey_EA wrote: »
    Possibly, but still a rare occurrence imho. It would likely depend on the LTV of the loan concerned.

    I cannot recall the last time a mortgage valuation report for a property I have dealt with contained an insistence that such surveys were carried out, it would be a few years ago.

    Really? The house I last bought I had to get a damp and timber report due to high moisture readings and 300 year old woodworm holes. If i remember rightly they wanted to keep a retention back pending satisfactory report/ remedial work.

    The house next door sold last year and had to get a D&T report, infact there are regular threads on here about it. Maybe less common than I thought.
  • They let you visit the home 4 times, offered to pay for an accredited survey, and you honestly believe they are hiding something from you? My advice, drop out, these are not the sellers for you to do business with.
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    SnooksNJ wrote: »
    They let you visit the home 4 times, offered to pay for an accredited survey, and you honestly believe they are hiding something from you? My advice, drop out, these are not the sellers for you to do business with.
    Blimey, who would be?
  • kingstreet
    kingstreet Posts: 39,256 Forumite
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    We've booked a damp proofing company in to do a survey
    How did you decide on this firm? Recommended? By whom?
    basically saying weve done something stupid and completely rejecting our choice of surveyor. naughty us.
    You haven't chosen a surveyor. You've chosen a damp/timber contractor. Free report/estimate by any chance?

    Standard advice on here is to not put the rats in charge of the cheese store. A "free" report and estimate often results in unnecessary timber and damp treatments where leaky rainwater goods, chimney flashing, or soil level are to blame and cost a fraction to remedy.

    You should pay for an independent inspection by someone who doesn't carry out remedial work;-

    http://www.independentdampsurveyors.co.uk/

    and get something which is yours and objective.

    The vendor has led you to water. Up to you if you are going to have a guzzle, or carry on with your blinkers on.
    I am a mortgage broker. You should note that this site doesn't check my status as a Mortgage Adviser, so you need to take my word for it. This signature is here as I follow MSE's Mortgage Adviser Code of Conduct. Any posts on here are for information and discussion purposes only and shouldn't be seen as financial advice. Please do not send PMs asking for one-to-one-advice, or representation.
  • AdrianC wrote: »
    Blimey, who would be?
    Mother Teresa?
  • getmore4less
    getmore4less Posts: 46,882 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper I've helped Parliament
    this is an older property stuff will crop up hope they are ready to be fixing stuff.
  • My buyers did this recently... and was fuming that they sent a damp proofing company who were offering a 'free damp survey' nothing is free... these people are cowboys and salesmen! Avoid them at all costs.. your vendors are right in that you need to send an independent damp surveyor.. one who has no interest in quoting for work..
  • this poster was ready to bin their solcitior and start with a new one 2 weeks ago


    short fuse, I think
    2021 GC £1365.71/ £2400
  • SG27 wrote: »
    I had that exact discussion with my buyers' non RICS building surveyor... mortgage company's insisting on potentially damaging remedial work is insane!
    Absolutely. But because banks and buyers love a 25 year guarantee from the PCA, which is obviously meaningless to anybody who knows the story of the Emporers new cloths, on a signed pics of pretty paper this won't go away. A thought; we conservation builders should offer a lifetime guarantee against damp for a massive premium! Any underwriters looking for a new line of income?
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