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your advice needed please on my survey results
fhmman
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I have just received my homebuyers survey for the property Im hoping to buy for 202K. It has brought up a couple of things that Im worried about.
It is a victorian cottage terraced property built in early 1900. It has been gutted by developer and now redecorated to a good standard.
It has a small extention to the rear which the bathroom is in. This has brought up the 1st problem that due to poor guttering the flat roof is in need of replacing due to its condition having suffered to pools of water sitting on for a long time. The survey says 3K to replace!!!
My second point is that there is rising damp at different areas of the external walls. Obivously the word "damp" already starts the alarm bells ringing but many ppl Ive spoke to over the day have said its not as bad as it sounds.
Now what do I do? Ive brought this to the attention on the EA and they have asked me to fax the survey over with the highlighted points. They will then go back to the vendor I guess.
I think im going to get some roofers and damp ppl in for quotes and then I guess ask the vendor to lower the price to cover the costs.
What do u all think?
It is a victorian cottage terraced property built in early 1900. It has been gutted by developer and now redecorated to a good standard.
It has a small extention to the rear which the bathroom is in. This has brought up the 1st problem that due to poor guttering the flat roof is in need of replacing due to its condition having suffered to pools of water sitting on for a long time. The survey says 3K to replace!!!
My second point is that there is rising damp at different areas of the external walls. Obivously the word "damp" already starts the alarm bells ringing but many ppl Ive spoke to over the day have said its not as bad as it sounds.
Now what do I do? Ive brought this to the attention on the EA and they have asked me to fax the survey over with the highlighted points. They will then go back to the vendor I guess.
I think im going to get some roofers and damp ppl in for quotes and then I guess ask the vendor to lower the price to cover the costs.
What do u all think?
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What do u all think?
Sounds reasonable to me. Personally the damp problems would put me off from buying altogether but I wouldn't be fussed about the extension needing its flat roof replaced. Flat roofs are notorious for standing water/leak problems and if my interpretation of "small" is the same as yours then £3k for fixing it is well excessive. Time to pull yellow pages out, look up 'roofing' section and grab your phone.
Rob0 -
I've lived in old properties all my life and I wouldn't get that worried about indications of damp - to some extent it's part and parcel of living in a period property - you can waste a lot of money on injecting damp proof courses etc which will work but may not have really been necessary.
I'd use the survey to get a discount and then probably live with it for a year before deciding to take any action. Perhaps call the surveyor to discuss the damp - he'll be more forthcoming over the phone!
Agree 3k for the roof sounds excessive.0 -
My girlfriends old house needed the flat roof of the extension repairing.
3k is a rip off, a patient she was caring for was listening to her tell a friend she needed her roof fixing, turns out his son was a roofer and gave her his number. He quoted £300 to replace the felt with a double layer, and £600 to replace the boards if needed and double refelt. Turns out the boards were fine just needed refelting. He did a fantastic job. She also got quotes from yellow pages firms and the most was £850/refelt and board changed.
My biggest advice to people is if you get cheap decent building work done record their fone numbers in a designated book, cos i dont have any numbers recorded for people who have done excellent work for me at decent prices.:mad:"Instead of saying someone was avaricious I'd say they were bloody greedy"0 -
See here: http://www.askjeff.co.uk/content.php?id=3
Jeff Howell has a construction industry background and writes books and a newspaper column on property matters0
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