Lack of Building Regulation documents for the heating

eddddy

[iD] said:

I was provided a maintenance checklist which I guess is same as gas safety certificate (at least where boiler is concern?)

Technically, No - the document says at the top that it isn't the same



The document looks like a checklist that done when the boiler was serviced. To be honest, it will be almost the same as the checks for a Gas Safety Certificate. So you probably don't need both.

Tiglet2

The Gas Safe Building Regulations Certificate is issued within 30 days of when a boiler is installed by a Gas Safety registered engineer and looks something like this, if it was installed after 1st April 2009.  Before that date it was the CORGI Certificate (1991-2009):



If the seller can't find it and it's not available as a duplicate from the Gas Safe website, then the indemnity is probably all they can offer you.  It's likely that you will have to take "a view" if indemnity is offered, as it might prove difficult for the seller to provide a "retrospective" certificate now.  How old is the boiler?

[iD]

Thank you both

I spoke to Gas Safe and they don't have any certificate. I'll call Corgi tomorrow to see if they hold anything.  I should ask how old the boiler is. I remember them telling me when I first viewed the property.

They've already offered indemnity, I was hoping to not have a list of indemnity policies to go with the house

[iD]

Jonboy_1984 said:

Have you checked the district councils website for a register? Round here all the building control filings are freely viewable online for the last 20 years or so.

Barking and Dagenham council have made it particularly difficult for me to look for anything on their website