Selling house and building certificate asked for

[FreddieV]

Hi all

Please can you help, we are selling our 1970’s house and are meant to be exchanging on Friday- however on the survey the surveyor noted that some pvc cladding had been replaced with bricks under our window and would need bundling regulation certificates, this work was done 20 + years ago and he did note there was no concerns with it.

What do we do? We cannot get a certificate in time and a PCC is extortionate and probably not relevant, would this have needed a building certificate in the first place?

I have attached a before and after photo.

Thanks

 

[Rodders53]

Solicitors (seek and want to) sell Indemnity Insurance for just this purpose.

Cough up for such a policy or tell the Buyer to pay for one.

 

[FreddieV]

Great thanks, happy to buy indemnity insurance, I thought this only covered against council taking legal action but it’s been over 10 years so they can’t, I could be completely wrong!

 

[Rodders53]

Great thanks, happy to buy indemnity insurance, I thought this only covered against council taking legal action but it’s been over 10 years so they can’t, I could be completely wrong!

Yep. AIUI Completely worthless but ticks a box with some conveyancers (who earns money from the process).

Depends on how intent your Buyers' Solicitor is on "needing" this "certificate/insurance" and how they are advising the Buyers' Mortgager... who may be the ones "requiring" the Certification, based on legal "advice" given to them (or a set of 'rules' the Mortgager has supplied their Conveyancer).

Check out MSE forums where as well as reading from those on here with suitable knowledge https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/categories/house-buying-renting-selling