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Selling house, buyers solicitor wants a safety certificate for electric shower?
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For context.
When I bought a house recently the survey mentioned an electric car socket and suggested I get the engineers installation report or something. The solicitors asked for it. If they didn't have it then I would still have gone ahead.
It is just a request. You can say you don't have one. Buyer can get it tested after completion if they want. Same as other electric and gas installations.
So you could just say no.2 -
“As the requested certificate is not something that is required for a simple replacement of a shower on an existing circuit, one does not exist and so I cannot provide it. I trust this satisfies the buyers concerns”.Sums up the situation, and is something your solicitor can pass on verbatim to the buyer’s solicitor.🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
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This wording is great - it explains fully. If you just say that there isn't a certificate, then the buyer's assumption may that there's something dodgy with the installation (and hence the vague indemnity certificate)EssexHebridean said:“As the requested certificate is not something that is required for a simple replacement of a shower on an existing circuit, one does not exist and so I cannot provide it. I trust this satisfies the buyers concerns”.Sums up the situation, and is something your solicitor can pass on verbatim to the buyer’s solicitor.0
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