I would be very surprised if a house built in 2k had any problems in that area, but I'm not an expert,
It looks like he just copied and pasted some stuff into his report to me, there will be millions of houses to a much worse standard than that one.
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It looks like he just copied and pasted some stuff into his report to me, there will be millions of houses to a much worse standard than that one.
sounds great to me , you won't find any better unless you buy new and that can bring its own problems.
Not quite what I meant, hah. I meant more inspecting the bits I can see and asking questions about the rest.
One thing to note is that the house a boiler and a hot water tank too on the 1st floor in airing cupboard. Would the water tank need servicing too? And the tank in the loft?
No, worst it could need is a pump or a valve, but they'll be fine at the moment, when you get a new boiler all that will go any way. You'll have a shiny new combi boiler.
I wouldn't worry too much about the consumer board, we have not long sold I had gas and electricity safety certificates done just to cover myself, cost about £200 for both (£80 gas, £120 electricity) we got got flagged up on our consumer unit as well. Ours was an 8 yr old crabtree consumer unit fitted under 17th edition regs so plastic case. Electrician explained that he had to point it out and flagged it up but there would never be any issues with it other than not meeting current regs for metal case.
Blimey you'd be shocked at the wiring in my house, I know I am!! I've been living here 18 years staring at it thinking I really should sort that out some time.
I'm not worried about the unit itself. I think that's fine and will be fine for many years.
The only thing that worries me is if I wanted electrical work doing would an electrician insist its changed to meet current regs so he can sign off?
I think he would be abliged to test it. But We had a new consumer unit fitted and signed off and some of our electrics were not current.
I guess it helps that I'm interested in electronics and like getting my hands dirty, so will look at things that many other people wouldn't dream of. But then I'll probably miss other things that a seasoned house buyer would notice.
"Consumer unit, what's that??"
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Boiler servicing IMO is a load of BS. What needs serviced exactly? It's not as if you are changing out any consumable parts, changing any filters or fluids.
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All it needs is a schedule of test results for the electrical installation.
Not having a non combustible CU will affect this.
Not having a non combustible CU will affect this.
There is no requirement to upgrade CU's to current standards unless it immediately affects safety somehow. I would suggest upgrading if the unit doesn't have RCD, because, let's face it - RCDs save lives. But if the only fault is CU made of plastic and non AMD3 compliant that's not even C3 advisory on Electrical Installation Condition Report. Which is also something you should get if in doubt, EICR costs £90-100 from most registered sparkies. Those kind of clauses put in the surveys just to cover their four letters.
Hot spots?
For the house we have now, i took a good look at the consumer unit, removed a few sockets and light switches, saw old rubber wires and put an offer in with around 5k off purely to allow for a rewire.
So much rubbish in those reports, i didn't bother with one at all, easy to do all the checks your self.
Regards the consumer unit, note it says "to meet current standards", well yes but there is nothing wrong with it meeting older standards especially of around 2000.
Gas wise, no one in there right mind would waste money getting gas meters inspected yearly, nor the appliances other than a boiler to be honest.
The boiler wont be a safety hazard its just not been serviced so get it serviced but you would do that in a new home anyway.
These reports are for people that don't know any better and try to justify them selves by pointing out all sorts of pointless run of the mill non issues.
Pointing and guttering are an ongoing home maintenance thing, surprised its not pointed out the driveway has wet leaves on it this time of year, series slip hazard needs sweeping immediately.
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Which they are under no obligation to do so if you want it done prepare to pay it yourself.
Home buyer reports rate electrics and boilers as condition rating 3 90% of the time.
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They are cautious because they can’t report everything being fine and perfect incase of any future problems.
Unless the surveyor was an electrician for example they can’t 100% say the electrical installation is in perfect condition and it all meets regulation exactly. Even then you would still have to test everything and check all the installation methods so for a house survey it’s not practical so just make it a condition 2 or 3 or 1 with caveats or ongoing maintenance and checks required
Unless the surveyor was an electrician for example they can’t 100% say the electrical installation is in perfect condition and it all meets regulation exactly. Even then you would still have to test everything and check all the installation methods so for a house survey it’s not practical so just make it a condition 2 or 3 or 1 with caveats or ongoing maintenance and checks required
Mine pointed out there was a tree in the front garden that I might want to look at. Their power of observation astounded me.
Where the previous dodgy "Electrician" has pulled the feed for the Cooker through a gap and its folded back on itself and is also under insulation etc.
Or one thats fitted a 10.5KW shower onto 6mm cable routed under 300mm of insulation
A home buyer survey wouldn't find those either. Even a full on survey would miss most of that unless all wording had ready access.