Waste pipe caused flood...

pjhrt

Hi,

So my wife and I are in the process of buying a house. Offer was accepted in August. Last week, we got the questionnaire back from the vendors regarding fixtures/fittings etc...and in there they mentioned that they'd made a claim on the house insurance as there was a "flood caused by broken waste pip".

The wife has had kittens and wants to pull out. I want to at least investigate it further. We've contacted the vendor's solicitors with some questions...but should we be worried?? I guess the insurance company would have made it right...and surely we wouldn't have been awarded a mortgage if there had been structural issues...?

This is our first purchase, so apologies if any of this is obvious...

Thanks in advance.

xylophone

You could ask to view the house again to check out what has happened.

Have you never had a leaking pipe?

pjhrt

xylophone wrote: »

You could ask to view the house again to check out what has happened.

Have you never had a leaking pipe?

Yeah, thought about another viewing...

No, never had a leaking pipe (that I've known about!) I guess it's just the term 'flood' I'm worried about and the fact that it was an insurance job.

SmashedAvacado

Presumably they fixed the issue ?

I think it’s good they’ve been honest - not sure why this would make anyone want to pull out. If the issue has been addressed what is the concern?

AnotherJoe

pjhrt wrote: »

Hi,

So my wife and I are in the process of buying a house. Offer was accepted in August. Last week, we got the questionnaire back from the vendors regarding fixtures/fittings etc...and in there they mentioned that they'd made a claim on the house insurance as there was a "flood caused by broken waste pip".

The wife has had kittens and wants to pull out. I want to at least investigate it further. We've contacted the vendor's solicitors with some questions...but should we be worried?? I guess the insurance company would have made it right...and surely we wouldn't have been awarded a mortgage if there had been structural issues...?

This is our first purchase, so apologies if any of this is obvious...

Thanks in advance.

Better hope your wife never leaves at tap running with the plug in in whatever your new house turns out to be then as presumably she'd have to abandon the house.

I suggest your vendors are twits to have mentioned the word "flood" when most people would imagine that means a river bursting its banks or similar. Imagine someone let a bath overflow. That would cause a "flood" downstairs but doesn't imply every winter the waters rise up three feet in the living room. I don't know the context if the question they answered but I suspect they coudl just have either ignored it or put much less emotive wording. "Damage caused by broken pipes repaired under insurance" or something like that.

To assuage her fears go and visit and get the vendors to explain what happened.