Selling House but no docs

[ElectricHouse]

We are selling our house and had electrical work done in kitchen in 2009 like 3 plugs added in , dishwasher and fridge freezer electrics added in and ceiling spotlights added. At the time we were using a registered gas engineer who provided all correct paperwork etc and we asked him to recommend a registered electrician. This man came work appeared fine and no issues. But now coming to sell on the form its asking for various forms none of which we can find.

We are trying to contact electrician but he's hard to get hold of and buyers are pushing for paperwork. Anyone know best way round this. Thanks. We are happy to pay for a solution, main thing want to avoid is sale falling through. We inherited very bad electrics.

I don't think you need paperwork for these bits - you need it for things like consumer units and rewriting. If you've got a good estate agent it's worth checking with them, as they're usually quite pragmatic about this stuff.

I think you do need paperwork. Any electrical work done after a certain year needed to be done by a certified person and I do seem to remember saying a certificate would be issued. Dh does all our electrics so I have this nagging worry if we ever come to sell the house about no paperwork. However I believe you can pay any electrician to come and do a safety inspection and issue a certificate.

Oh hang on, just found this and it looks like revisions were made and stuff like plugs don’t need certificates now.

www.quittance.co.uk/conveyancing/advice/selling-a-property/no-electrical-completion-certificate-what-to-do-before-selling-your-home

So if the solicitor tries to tell you you must pay for an indemnity certificate check whether you need one, looks like you don’t.

Last house I sold they tried to get me to pay for two and I refused for both. I’m sure indemnity certificates are the new money making scam for solicitors. One was for an indemnity about the flying freehold in a 150yo house in an area where they’re common incase the neighbours objected to it (which would cause them as much problems as the sold house so they’d never do it) and the other certificate related to a chimney breast which had been removed 40 years previously as there was no building regs certificate. As if the council are going to suddenly decide to crack down in that after 40 years!

I would say - ask your solicitor for the advice on this - that is why you are paying her/him.

We recently sold a house and when asked if we had the various pieces of paperwork we just replied no. There were no problems and some of the work had been carried out in the last couple of years.

I think it's more for your buyers to decide how to proceed. The house we bought had no electrical certificates so we were advised to get an electrical survey done. This turned out to be a fail. We decided to proceed with the purchase anyway as we are planning to exchange the consumer unit anyway once we do a loft extension.

Thanks very much for all the help.

I've just messaged solicitor to ask their advice and I've found the 2006 regulations which would have applied at the time though still none the wiser with that. Will keep trying electrician and hopefully he can solve but if not looks like we should tick yes work done but no certificates available. Then may need indemnity or electrics check but at least it sounds resolvable which is our main concern.