Buyer pulled out following survey

FreeBear

Chandler85 said: So on the right on Photo 15 is the posters house, the really dodgy chimney seems to be on the house on the left.

Thanks for clarifying. It is probably just as well that chimney is leaning inwards. When it goes, it will collapse through the roof and cause minimal damage to the OP's house (with luck).

babyblade41

I think you said the valuation came in 5k less than the agreed price ?  if that's the case then 20k is a bit off .

If it was me I'd negotiate 10k and see what they say..saves you getting the mess

RamBro

babyblade41 said:

I think you said the valuation came in 5k less than the agreed price ?  if that's the case then 20k is a bit off .

If it was me I'd negotiate 10k and see what they say..saves you getting the mess

That's what I'm leaning towards. The engineer recommended giving building control a call and get further options. I'd prefer to save the hastle and the mess and just knock off 5-10K. 

Crashy_Time

ProDave said:

Depending on the value of the property, I would be tempted to let the buyer proceed at £20K less and save yourself a lot of extra grief later.

Yep, good advice.

badger09

I haven't read your whole thread but will just add that these sort of 'bodges' can be life threatening, so please don't scrimp on having it fixed.

We had similar roof issues mentioned by surveyor, re the detached garage, when we moved here 20 years ago. Within about 3 months our builder started to fix it. Having removed all the tiles, the triangle trusses(?) and 2 gable ends were left standing. My husband & builder's young apprentice were inside the garage when the rear gable end started to topple forwards, bringing down all the trusses and the front gable end. Husband & apprentice ran towards the exit and it was only the scaffolding boards above the front door which saved them. 

That was by no means the first bodge we discovered, but definitely the most dangerous. Closely followed by the discovery that the leaking emersion heater cylinder had been repaired with some totally inappropriate car body filler.

RamBro

That's quite scary badger09!
I've offered the buyer £10K off and have also started discussions with building control. It's certainly not a case of requiring a new roof, but it does need to be done properly.

homersimpson246

Surely the easiest and cheapest option it just to put the roof back to how it was originally and remove the window?  If anything has moved then what stops you moving it back with a bit of hydraulic assistance?

badger09

RamBro said:

That's quite scary badger09!
I've offered the buyer £10K off and have also started discussions with building control. It's certainly not a case of requiring a new roof, but it does need to be done properly.

Indeed it was.

Another of his little foibles was to wire the burglar alarm system into the CH control system . When we started to get the electrics sorted, our electrician was completely baffled and basically had to start from scratch.

This is one of reasons we're buying (hopefully) a 4 year old house. The prospect of having to remedy other people's bodges is too daunting for us in out dotage