The survey on the house we are buying highlighted wood worm. We had a specialist check the house be they have confirmed it is active. Advice is to treat all the floorboards throughout house. This requires carpets to be lifted/ replaced and the property to be empty for 48 hours.
because of this issue, we now need to pay for:
2 x removals days and storage (3x standard)
Accommodation for us
Carpet re-laying
The treatment itself
DH think we should say we'll pay for our accondation and split the rest 50:50. I fee this is quite generous, though, as we'll still be pay a couple of thousand, if not more. The work needs to be done, as it's a condition of our mortgage (& probably would be if anyone else's).
What would seem like a reasonable reduction to ask for in this situation? (Obviously, they could alternatively move out a couple of days earlier if they could do the removals and storage cheaper, but I wouldn't actually ask them to do so).