Seller completed the TA6 incorrectly

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Hello wise Mumnetters, after some advice . Me and my partner recently (end of July 25) purchased a property. Within 5 weeks we noted issues such as the upstairs toilet being incorrectly fitted leading to waste water leaking on the bathroom floor and a new floor, floorboards needing to be replaced.

I turned on the central heating and the two radiators in the living room , hall way and downstairs bathroom do not come on. I contacted British Gas whose engineer viewed the property and advised that the pipe work has been incorrectly fitted and therefore the radiators do not work.

I checked the TA6 form and the sellers ticked that the central heating was in good working order and the heating system report is to follow. I have searched my emails and can’t find the heating system report and notified my conveyancing solicitor of the issues and awaiting their response.

Has anyone experienced anything similar ?
I’m tempted to obtain a heating system report as we have been in the property just over 2 months and I feel the incorrect pipework and lack of radiators working downstairs would be an issue the former owners would of been aware off. Not sure If id be successful in a small claims court ?

Not an Aibu but legal can be quiet in response .

Sorry to hear this. No advice but sympathy as my dd had similar issues. She also felt there was an odour of damp in the back room. Her and the children had continual colds and coughs. She was right, water had seeped through the backyard/ house walls and gone under the floorboards. Sadly it had breached the front room too.

Everything had to be dug up, walls tanked ad infinitum. Previous owner had undertaken botched repairs, there was even a live wire under the floorboards. Family have spent months working on the house. He declared nothing on the form but botched works on the cheap suggest otherwise.

We helped pay for a new boiler so at least they were warm whilst living in a tip.

Whilst my son in law considered legal comeback, he felt unable to face the stress and proof levels necessary. I understand your frustration.

@ElsieMc Everyone who I told has shared their own horror stories with sellers. I will await my conveyancing solicitors response and also contact my home insurance as I have legal cover and I’ll find it surprising that the heating system downstairs stopped working the moment we moved in and this wasn’t a long standing issue.

I think you won’t have much chance of any recourse. Unless your seller is a professional plumber then their confirmation the heating system was in good working order isn’t worth much. Plus, it may have been at the time they filled in the TA6. It’s been 2 months since you moved in. The Seller can argue it’s broken since then.

Were you advised to get your own boiler service and heating system inspection report before exchange? Did your solicitor ever request and chase up on the seller’s service report? I’d be raising it with your solicitor first.

Well since you moved in over the summer perhaps they’d not turned the heating on for a while? Things go wrong when it’s not been used for some time. Unfortunately this goes with buying a house and the onus is on you to get whatever inspections you want first. I doubt you could prove they knew about this.

The sellers might not have known. My example is that Our boiler leaked after 10 years, and we had it serviced regularly but when another plumber came to give us a quote he said one of the parts was round the wrong way. The floorboards got wet and damaged. . I don’t know how long it had been that way whether it was since it was fitted or at the previous service. It was fitted and serviced by a guy we had used for years who we trusted.
but had we moved between the previous service and 9 months later when it went wrong we could have produced a full service report and told you the heating was working great… because it was, until it wasn’t

Suppose it’s a lesson learnt , we were advised to get our own heating system report but we didn’t and we were awaiting theirs. It’s just unfortunate within 2 months of moving in, we have no heating downstairs and the toilet fitted incorrectly in the bathroom , has flooded the bathroom with waste water and we are now are without a main bathroom . Perhaps I could get legal recourse on that as 3 plumbers have been out and said the toilet was fitted incorrectly . The ceiling has almost gone through and I find it difficult to believe they didn’t realise the toilet wasn’t leaking each time they used it.

So sorry for you again op.
Sadly caveat emptor , buyer beware, is a salutary lesson learned. Only plus point for my dd is their decor , on the cheap, looks lovely. I wish you luck x

Did you get a full survey of the property generally?