selling house - no boiler installation certificate

resilie

We are selling our house which we purchased in 2012. A boiler was installed by the previous owners in 2008. Our buyer's solicitor is asking for a boiler installation certificate which it appears we were never given when we purchased the house. I have checked the council's building regs website - does not appear to necessarily go back online to 2008. I will call the ppl who look after CORGI certification tomorrow to see if they have a record and can issue a replacement certificate (that's £40)...my solicitor has given me an insurance quote of £168!
The boiler has been regularly serviced by us and has also got an up to date gas safety certificate.
Before shelling out loads of money for insurance (for what exactly?), is it a must to have this? The boiler is 11 years old, has been serviced and is safe (as per gas safety check). Can the buyer insist on that insurance or a replacement installation certificate? Seems like a waste of money and time but obviously if it is needed I will get it...

chunkytfg

Cant help other than to say it is now Gas Safe and not CORGI

martinthebandit

Personally I would be thinking if the buyer wants it then the buyer can pay for it.

I would also be telling the solicitor to put his insurance quote where the sun doesn't shine.

eddddy

chunkytfg wrote: »

Cant help other than to say it is now Gas Safe and not CORGI

Between April 2005 and March 2009, Corgi did the certification.

OP says the installation was done in 2008, so Corgi are the right people to talk to.


Edit to add..

Here's a link: http://www.corgicertificate.co.uk/

AnotherJoe

resilie wrote: »

We are selling our house which we purchased in 2012. A boiler was installed by the previous owners in 2008. Our buyer's solicitor is asking for a boiler installation certificate which it appears we were never given when we purchased the house. I have checked the council's building regs website - does not appear to necessarily go back online to 2008. I will call the ppl who look after CORGI certification tomorrow to see if they have a record and can issue a replacement certificate (that's £40)...my solicitor has given me an insurance quote of £168!
The boiler has been regularly serviced by us and has also got an up to date gas safety certificate.
Before shelling out loads of money for insurance (for what exactly?), is it a must to have this? The boiler is 11 years old, has been serviced and is safe (as per gas safety check). Can the buyer insist on that insurance or a replacement installation certificate? Seems like a waste of money and time but obviously if it is needed I will get it...

Buyer can insist on insurance you can insist they pay for it. Or you can split.The insurance is, literally, a waste of money, it will insure against something that will not happen if its had safety checks the last few years (eg that someone will come along and say its unsafe and force its replacement).

resilie

chunkytfg wrote: »

Cant help other than to say it is now Gas Safe and not CORGI

Since 2009 it's Gas Safe but for boilers installed between 2005-09 it's still CORGI which is annoying as their replacement certificates are much more expensive

Doozergirl

Nobody in their right mind would take a certificate that old as a sign of anything.

You have serviced the boiler. I would provide evidence of that, along with a gas safety certificate and tell them quite clearly that an 11 year old certificate is utterly useless. The only sign of current safety is a current safety certificate.

chunkytfg

eddddy wrote: »

Between April 2005 and March 2009, Corgi did the certification.

OP says the installation was done in 2008, so Corgi are the right people to talk to.


Edit to add..

Here's a link: http://www.corgicertificate.co.uk/

In that case apologies. I wrongly assumed CORGI had just been renamed Gas Safe :wall::embarasse

resilie

I quite agree Doozergirl but does anyone know if I legally need to provide a certificate or that insurance?

G_M

resilie wrote: »

I quite agree Doozergirl but does anyone know if I legally need to provide a certificate or that insurance?

No, you don't.

It's a 10 year old boiler anyway so the certificarte is meaningless:

1) council can't won't take action after so long
2) hence insurance will never pay out
3) certificate proves nothing about safety /reliability of the boiler.

Give buyer copies of the service records, offer to let them get it inspected (their cost) if they wish, and (via your estate agent) ask if they are serious buyers or just wasting your time!

Slithery

resilie wrote: »

I quite agree Doozergirl but does anyone know if I legally need to provide a certificate or that insurance?

No.

You are under absolutely no obligation to provide any paperwork at all for the property that you're selling.

However, the more that you can provide the smoother the transaction is likely to be.

If the potential purchasers wish to carry out their own additional checks on top of the paperwork that you already have then they can arrange and pay for them themselves.