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voiceofdoom | 17:36 Mon 18th Feb 2008 | Home & Garden
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I recently bought a new house and although the property is quite old I was under the impression that it had gas fired central heating already in, in fact the surveyors report
says that it has.

I am now in the process of having a new gas central heated system put in but I would like to know if the surveyor is at fault for not noticing that their was no system and if so who should I complain to about this mistake.
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What sort of surevy was it ? Carried out by whom ?
Surveyors normally cover themselves by saying "no testing of the gas central heating system was carried out " or similar, I used to type up the reports. Does it have a clause like this near the end of the report? after the property description?
it seems to be a common aspect in our lives that "professionals" are not accountable for their acts/omissions whilst charging considerable fees for their services, although i have never heard of a surveyor testing the systems within a property.
could you not go down the route of going after the seller through your solicitor.when i bought/sold within the last 18 months i was asked if my heating system was working and if it had been sreviced by a corgi registered person. did your solicitor do this?
also, there is normally a legal clause stating you have 'X' amount of days to report items such as central heating to be faulty, its around 7-10 days in Scotland i think, should be in your legal offer papers
If your survey was conducted for 'mortgage only' purposes, there will be so many get-out-clauses that it won't be worth pursuing.
However, if you had an independent survey carried out by someone competent who really should have known better I suggest you get in touch with them.
You could point out that had you been informed that there was NO gfch you may have used this to negotiate a reduced price with the vendor as you would wish to install this later.
But it DOES beg the question of why you didn't notice this yourself.
theyve asked the question and gone away monkey - huh
If the surveyor (or his company) is regulated by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, this should help:
http://www.rics.org/newregulation/publiccomp.h tml

Chris

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