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New house with faulty extension
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societys_child wrote: »:huh: Extension or conservatory?Its an extension of the house so all open plan and the sides are brick but roof and doors aluminium and glass so a hybrid i guess?
There is no hybrid, and you should not need to guess.
If it's open to the house, it should be an extension and Building Regulations compliant. Your insurance against it being 'a bit poo' would then be the periodic inspections and/or certificate of compliance issued when the work was complete.
OTOH. if it is just a conservatory masquerading as an extension, you will not have this vital piece of paperwork. You might only have a guarantee from the installer which will only be as good as the installers themselves. As a second owner, you might even have to pay to have the dubious 'rights' it confers transferred....
I agree with the others. A competent builder needs to look at the structure to see what remedial action is most appropriate within the constraint of not spending too much. By the way you've described it, this will never be a real, value-adding extension.0
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