Hi just a bit of advice please!
We've just received our mortgage offer, and as in the title they want us to get a specialist report and any necessary work carried out.
I suspect condensation rather than rising damp (having lived in a basement flat with a a major issue!) - there's peeling wallpaper and mould in the corners on the first floor, and last time we viewed the vendor mentioned having to have the bathroom window open.
What we're thinking is that we should ask the vendor to pay for any work - as if it's not done we can't get the mortgage anyway (or the offer will be reduced by the cost of any work needed, and making up the shortfall is out of the question). We made it clear when viewing the property that we would be having a survey and our offer was a condition of everything being in order.
We've held off on the full building survey for now until we get the damp report.
Is this the right way of going about it? Has anyone had experience of this before? And how do we make sure we get a contractor who doesn't pretend we have a major rising damp issue just for profit (I'm still convinced it's condensation!)?
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Specialist damp/timber report as condition of mortgage offer?
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rubydoobydoo · 06/04/2013 16:48
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