Building repairs and guarantees

[Papayalady]

Hello all

I'm buying a house which has had some repair work carried out by the vendor as a condition of purchase. The seller's contractor carried out simple chimney repairs to strengthen it, and repointing on the internal and external brickwork. However, there is no guarantee.

Does anyone know whether this is the norm for such maintenance work? Or should there always be a guarantee regardless of what kind of repair is work carried out?

Thanks,

Now this is a difficult one to answer

Firstly any work undertaken by a tradesman should be of a good and sufficient quality

So In theory you have protection in that case if the work is not satisfactory....

However , and it’s a big however

When you buy a property it is sold as seen, unless it is sold with any warranties (seemingly the work needing to be done was your purchase condition and not that it had work done with a guarantee). So if there is no warranty in the first place to be had then there is none

Further, the tradesmans contract is not with you, it’s with the person that instructed and paid them. So no contract to go back on there either

Caveat emptor

Thanks - all good points.