Owning your own home

I would simply affix the television to the back of the front door

what london EAs say: A truly stunning and unique freehold period house situated in an incredibly desirable location

what you actually get for your £900k:

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My fave is the low hanging light in the bathroom. Really inspect teh skidz.

Homebuyers report came back (mainly threes - but things we expected...).

It noted that none of the boiler, gas, nor electricity has inspection certificates (might not seem strange other than that the house was previously rented out).
I'd like to ask the vendor to get these done to make sure things are at least working in theory - how/when/through who do I go about requesting this? Our solicitors? The agent?

I suppose they might have been done, just that the certs weren't left with the meters or something.

Nice view though the glass doors in the kitchen, to the wall 3ft away.

Solicitors. Think they will have had to have gas for letting it out, not sure about electricity. Think boiler and gas is the same thing?

'Garden' is stunning too.

If the property has been let they would have had gas and leccy certs but im not sure what they need them for selling it tbh. Its really not something that is required!

£900k. Shall we move the manky old mop and upturned bucket for the photos? Nah..

tenanted init

I'd like to ask the vendor to get these done to make sure things are at least working in theory - how/when/through who do I go about requesting this? Our solicitors? The agent?

"Hi agent, in the interests of keeping this sale alive can you get seller to forward on the most recent gas safety and any 'leccy inspection certs to our solicitors ASAP? thx"

As above, no guarantee they have them. If your eyeballing of the place worries you in that area then you can pay people to inspect for you if you can afford to hold things up for a bit.

Personally I think it's best to assume the CH, gas and leccy is mostly fucked unless proven otherwise

It was more of a dig at the EA/photographer than the occupants.

Yeah they can’t touch the stuff really, they have to shoot it as is.

I really like the hand-painted tiles though.

It's a bit drug-psychosis outsider art but it's also quite fun.

Ours (the guy subbed by Nested) asked if it was OK to fluff a few pillows and move stuff out of the way. But anyway.

That needs a few quid spent on it for sure

Yeah, lucky they’ve priced that in…

And the sink and boob shelf.

I hadn't even noticed those!

I couldn't work out for ages whether there was an optical illusion in picture 2. Then I realised it was just a toddler death trap.

Theres a sparky my in laws have used who's local and another my friend used doesn't really do domestic jobs but might. I'll ask for you.

Plasterer too. Will PM

Solicitors if your at stage. If the property was being rented as of recent then gas cert is required yearly. If not vendor isn't obliged too so bear that in mind

I'd like to ask the vendor to get these done to make sure things are at least working in theory

My buyer asked me to do this, I said no. There's only really a downside to it for the seller (assuming the buyer isn't going to pull out over it).

It was genuinely useful, unlike the survey we had on our first place.

He calls you after and talks you through the headlines too, which I found really helpful. We then used some of the issues he found in the full report to get our sellers to fix a few things.

Thanks for the reco @princeperch

Does anyone have a gutters chap to recommend in E10 area?

Thanks everyone - in hindsight it feels like one of those things a surveyor will give undue weighting to as an arse-covering exercise - albeit I understand why they do so.

Planning to move the boiler from the back bedroom to the downstairs utility on the other side of the house, so will be fairly major works regardless that might well see us needing a new boiler in any case.

Last bit of my rant today is that it's frustrating that half the 3s in the report look completely avoidable if the owner had just kept their bloody gutters cleaned and in working order... but then again that's why we're paying 205k rather than 270k for one on the same street that's been done up already.

half the 3s in the report look completely avoidable if the owner had just kept their bloody gutters cleaned and in working order

But as many posts on here show getting trades round to do stuff isn't a 'just' job. I've got a dripping kitchen sink. It could well be easier to move than find a plumber that wants to fix it.