Owning your own home

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/56396294

Would be a nice project - not sure I love the architects designs but the building is beautiful

We compromised at a £20k reduction in our offer. Possibly too much but we really like the house.
Fingers crossed there's less work to do than we think (unlikely).

You dont need a annual gas cert in a private property though so why would people spend £100 a year on that. So I think thats ridiculous.

The 5 or so year warranty of the boiler manufacturer is conditional on yearly check ups

Yeah they are fuckers like that.

Warranty is probably worth fuck all as well.

No two installers will agree on what installation specs will actually create a valid warranty too. One of them was like 'if you don't fit a magnetic woo box on the inlet no warranty for you!'

If I were buying a house and the vendor refused a boiler survey I would pay for one myself. If the vendor refused access to do that I would get really suspicious.

What your talking about are totally different things, an annual gas check would be something that is required by law for a rental property. You're talking about a boiler service and filling in the log book, totally different things.

Bolier warrantys argent worth the paper they are wrote in, depending on the engineer that comes out they are using all sorts to get out of not repairing stuff now and some of it is fuckin stupid.

A bought a house with an unknown status boiler a decade ago. I could have asked for a boiler certificate but it wouldn't have made any difference to the house purchase as it would still have been 30+ years old and inefficient which was obvious from 5 yards away.

The boiler hasn't blown up yet. We looked into getting it replaced but the costs didn't justify the savings and apparently new boilers don't tend to last as long (lots of microcontrollers that fail and you can't get parts for after about 10 years compared to my hunk of iron with very little in the way of fancy controls).

If you dont fit the included filter with a Baxi 800 it takes the 10 year warranty to 2 but the 600 with a 7 year warranty doesn't require one and they are the same boiler although another thing they are starting to do is pull water tests into it with the system and using that to get out of repairing them, the next few years are going to be fun to see what goal posts they change.

Gas safety certificates and a boiler service are two different things though.

Warranties are probably contingent on servicing, rather than safety certificates at that.

We have someone that get it, they are exactly on servicing and not safety certs.

The warranty reqs for our boiler install were pretty clear in the boiler installation manual - various water checks carried out by accredited installer and a full flush of the system with a big magnetic filter on the CH return to (ostensibly) catch rust off the inside of shitty radiators. And an annual service. Takes it to 10 years on our Vaillant.

^same. think our annual service is £60. willing to pay that for at least some piece of mind, accepting that boiler warranties may be flimsy pieces of shi-...*

*thankfully not had to test that premise yet

Fair enough, I am talking about the standard combi you’d find in a 2 bed flat that could have some latent defect the vendors are trying to keep quiet

If you're paying £300k+ for a flat you've probably just got to assume that you'll need to pay £3k to replace the boiler.

The one that was in our flat was put in 2 years before we bought the place and lasted a total of 15 years. That's not bad going. I assume the one we put in is going to last at least 10 years (but not 15) and will budget accordingly.

My bad, you are right of course

I had the valuer from the new mortgage provider round last week, got confirmation today that he agreed with the valuation I put down. Happy days, now just need to do the paperwork for the remortgage and gift all my monies to my partner.
Looks like this move to the North is still on.

On another note, chatting to the vendor, we've started discussing directly over things like Internet providers, what stuff they want to leave or sell to us etc. Do people do this as seems to be going really well and we seem to be building a rapport and buy-in from both sides too

Survey done on my place. Survey on the I'm moving too is next week. So I guess mortgage will be processed after that.

All seems to be moving very very slowly at the moment.

Maybe I should move back to London if yous are paying 3k for a boiler change.

Don't move to Cambridgeshire. Mine was £5k. Unless you install boilers.

5k for a boiler change, I'll drive down from Glasgow and do that. Were doing full heating cheaper...

You'll have to bring your own scaffolding...

Anyone used Purple Bricks to sell? I remember hearing some negative stuff about them a while ago but I can't remember why.

me and a pal listed our flats at the same time him using PB, he's hated every second.

As soon as the ad was live ad fee paid they went underground, taking days to respond, when they received and offer and wanted to discuss with the agent, the agent said he would follow up with buyer and then effectively lost them the sale they were so useless.

My understanding is your better options are:

• full agent
  
• actually just DIY it
  
  

PB seem to be a crappy middle ground

Good to know, thanks.