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Fox
Envious of all these new houses but congrats!

Ours should be going on the market this week - excellent timing huh.

I have questions as a noob who has never sold somewhere before:
- Do we need to get paperwork to prove the boiler has been serviced and/or a gas safety certificate? The last paperwork we have is from March 2016 when the boiler was installed but it's thorough and includes building proof of building regs compliance. I did get a plumber to look at it recently when he was doing something else, he had a look and said it's golden but I have nothing on paper.
- I've got the same question about the electrics. Detailed paperwork from 2016, and the sticker on the (metal) consumer unit says it's next due to be inspected March 2021, but in reality it was looked at last year by a friendly spark when we had an RCD keep tripping because a few screws needed tightening.
- Last one is a bit embarrassing! We paid NHBC to do our building control stuff. I always presumed the dusty NHBC folder in the cellar had something in it - turns out not, apart from (minimal) evidence of three site visits. So we have no compliance certificate. Our architect arranged it and I just paid the invoice, so I think they had his name and address and I've also noticed that our house number is wrong on the invoice... Can I just call up NHBC and ask them to reissue the certificate?

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Howard in reply to @Fox

1 - no. You might need the commissioning cert though. The one you have :) As per previous boring boiler chat, the warranty tends to hinge on it actually being serviced, so you might find a buyers surveyor stating that in their report and to not rely on it actually working.
2 - no.
3 - dunno, NHBC are pricks. Should be recorded with building control I would have thought, so it will come up in the property searches. That is, if they actually did the thing they were paid for.

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Fox in reply to @Howard

Thanks. Current plan is ring NHBC in the morning, if no joy follow up with architect. They left the dusty, very partially completed folder behind in the cellar so that doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.

it will come up in the property searches

Or it would, if Hackney Council weren't unable to process local authority searches 'for the foreseeable future'. Just found this out. FFS.

We had to wait three months to buy our flat purely because Hackney took three months to supply the searches, now they're going to delay our sale too!

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