Major rant alert.....The survey flagged some issues with the roof and chimney, made it sound as though the house was falling down to be honest. In the 8 weeks since our buyers have had 2 builders to look at the house, one quoted £1000 and said 1 tile needed replacing on the roof, chimney repointing and some additional supports inside the loft. The 2nd builder said the chimeny needed repointing but there was nothing else wrong with the house. She's still pulling out as she has concerns due to all the issues the surveyor raised - even though 2 builders have openly said the survey is ridiculous and the house is fine.
2nd time this has happened, I'm 26 weeks pregnant and was desperate to move before the baby came, but can't face doing this all again. Why have 2 builders round to give an opinion on the house if she then wasn't going to beleive what they said, its just wasted weeks of our time when the house could have been on the market. And as for the surveyors! The issues this surveyor has raised are totally different to the issues raised by the previous buyers survey, one focused on major damp and rotting floors (we had a damp proof course fitted before the houe went up for sale and after the survey an expert came round and told us the survey was rubish and all was fine, but the buyers weren't interested this) this suveyor has said there are no problems with damp, but has listed major issues with the roof (not mentioned at all in previous survey) which the builders have disagreed with! Do they just make it up?!