New build storage cellar leaks

AdrianC

RPC_2 said:

It is classed as a new build for mortgage purposes.

If it really was newly built, it would be a lot easier to control ingress - because they could tank the outside and stop water getting into the masonry.

Doozergirl

RPC_2 said:

It is classed as a new build for mortgage purposes. 
I know it is normal due to water table etc but I still don't want it in my house and just wanted to see if it was part of nhbc standards for this to be done. so no big expectations just checking that I am getting what I am due.

It is treated 'like' a new build for mortgage purposes, not 'as' a new build.   Conversions require warranties like new builds do, but not the same warranties because the standards and requirements are not the same.  

I'm a serial renovator and builder of two decades; we've completed many conversions.   

TheProfessional

We had a Victorian Terrace which flooded in summer rain, the type which buckets down volumes in a short space of time. It came through the cellar walls and happened once a summer. It was a couple of inches and we just kept everything on crates. We also bought a pump to pump water out so it wasn't sitting.

You will have to check what the insurance questions are. Most said have you ever flooded and included the words surface, groundwater etc tricky