No Boiler Installation paperwork when selling

JuzaMum

Hi All, my boiler was installed 14 years ago by a muppet (I'm being polite!), it has been serviced since and had the cowl fitted on the flue as he didn't bother. I am planning on selling the house and have been told 'you’re not allowed to sell a property, under any circumstances, if it doesn’t have a valid boiler safety certificate and Building Regulations Compliance Certificate’. This was from a Zoopla email, so I'm guessing it's correct. How do I go about rectifying this, it wasn't registered when installed so there is no lost paperwork to find. TIA

AskAsk

if you don't have the correct paperwork, then state this in the seller form and get it tested by a gas safe engineer to certify it is safe.  that will normally be good enough for the solcitors.

silvercar

That isn’t true. The buyer may well ask for a certificate, you will answer that you’ve had it regularly serviced but don’t have an installation certificate. The buyer can expect that, choose to get their own inspection or walk away.

We had this problem when we bought. The sellers had obtained a gas safety certificate, but there was no installation certificate. If a buyer insisted you could pay for an indemnity policy to cover the lack of a certificate, but it is meaningless on a boiler that old.

FreeBear

JuzaMum said: I am planning on selling the house and have been told 'you’re not allowed to sell a property, under any circumstances, if it doesn’t have a valid boiler safety certificate and Building Regulations Compliance Certificate’.

Pfffft.... A Gas Safe (boiler safety) certificate is only a requirement if you are renting. BR compliance certificates, whilst good to have, are not mandatory when selling. Your solicitor will be able to arrange indemnity insurance for a nominal fee should a buyer insist on it. But at 14 years old, the boiler is coming to the end of its life, so likely to be replaced soon.

Keep_pedalling

AskAsk said:

if you don't have the correct paperwork, then state this in the seller form and get it tested by a gas safe engineer to certify it is safe.  that will normally be good enough for the solcitors.

This is exactly what we had to do last year, their was no problem with this.

JuzaMum

Thank you everyone for putting my mind at rest.

EssexHebridean

We bought in 2023 with no installation cert for the boiler - the sellers volunteered an indemnity policy which we accepted but in fact it’s pretty worthless anyway as the boiler turned out to be in the region of 18 - 20 years old. There wasn’t even a recent service ticket for ours either - but again it didn’t put us off - we just worked on the basis that worst case our gas chap would come in, condemn it, and we’d have to replace it. In fact he serviced it not long after we moved in and said it was solid - it’s (touch wood) still working fine, and if anything goes wrong now because of the age it will be a replace not a repair.