What to do after survey

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Our survey has flagged up some issues but mostly they are fine and fixable over time. Two are more serious and need investigations or at least tradespeople to quote.

Do I just contact the estate agent and explain the issue? I don’t want to provide the whole survey document but could give extracts?

You can contact the agent and say the survey has flagged up some issues, two of which are concerning. Then you can either ask if they would allow tradespeople over to look or get some quotes from what the survey says.
Then you have options. Either steam ahead with purchase as before, negotiate a drop in price if the work is costly or pull out completely.

I’m in a similar situation, however our survey flagged 3 items as red i.e. requiring urgent action. 2 of the items relate to electrics and the other related to lack of safety glass on built in wardrobe. The total estimated cost is £950.

Would I look silly if I go back to the seller requesting a reduction, or asking them to resolve the issue ?

I have a 3 for electrics but really that’s to be expected a lot of the time. I wouldn’t be looking for a reduction for less than £1000 unless you’re in a really good position but I’m no expert.
My 3s relate to structural issues.

@Anitai no that's pretty minor. No house is perfect and that's too low to worry about - if I was the seller I'd roll my eyes and say 'no'.

In the OP's case contact the EA and they might give you a list of contractors they recommend to come and take a look. Or go on checkatrade and find someone to explain the survey to and they can arrange a visit to have a look and give a quote.

For the poster with 950 worth of repairs I wouldn't bother. 950 is nothing when it comes to fixing things like that, I would expect to spend at least that much in almost any house at first. We negotiated 5k off the purchase price after survey but just because the house had been downvalued by that much.

I negotiated £6k off the original offer last month.

I contacted the agent and said the survey indicated I'll need to get a tradesman to look at the house. Access for tradespeople was arranged directly via the agent.

After I had the quote I wrote an email to the agent explaining why we were reducing our offer by £8k, how we felt we were meeting in the middle (not including another couple of things that were flagged up, and only asking for a reduction to deal with the biggest cost) and provided extracts of the summary, the cost indication and the pages specifically linked to the issues we mentioned.

That was enough for them to have a discussion with the seller who agreed to reduce by £6k the next morning.

I’ve arranged for a builder to check the issues out. Thanks for the advice. So far!