Are we silly not to do gas and electricity check

[purpletrees16]

TL:DR if you’ve reached the price point where below the seller will not sell & it’s a fixer upper anyway, is it ok to not do elec & gas checks till after it’s yours?

We’re had something checked as it could have been major but it was £200.

We’re going to replace the 1960s back boiler when we move in and we’ll have an electrician in and likely just get a new fuse board there and then. House is lived in and well loved.

when calling up people they all charge when it’s not your house, but do free quotes when it is.

Since we’re resigned to no more price moves, there’s not much having it all checked in advance, right? I’m not missing anything out by opting to do after purchase?

. I’ve had a look on estimator websites for these sorts of jobs (inc rewiring).

Have you asked the seller to do them? Might well say no but can ask, we are paying for both for our buyer.

Last house our seller just organised both and paid for them without us asking. House before none where done was a renovation job but both the gas and electrics were in a dangerous state and elements were potentially fatal of both. So I would get it checked before using anything gas or electrical that could be dangerous. We are having to pay for them for here so I'm not sure they are every free, our gas was £160 and electrical £288 for 3 bed house.

I didn’t with my last property but that was because I knew I was replacing boiler, radiators and having complete rewire before I moved in. The property needed a lot of updating.

It sounds like you're still buying this house and accept thre will be no price drop so this is fairly irrelevant. Just accept there might be a big bill if re-wiring but if it's being lived in etc then why should there be? New consumer unit is no biggy, new wiring will be per new installations. Can't see any reason, assuming you are proceeding anyway, to get inspections / quotes done unless you want to book the work in.

I didn’t with my current property, the boiler was 3 months old and it was obvious the electrics hasn’t been done since it was built. It would be paying a couple hundred quid to tell me the electrics weren’t to current standard and the boiler was brand new, which I knew..

Thanks Loofah01 that’s what I thought but then you read some forums. It’s hard to know what is driven by people trying to renegotiate the price and what is driven by safety. We’re happy enough with the price and the mortgage company is too. It’s fair.

We’ll probably look into the fuse board being replaced as it’s an old style (and breaker switches are convenient!) and in booking that in will find out if there’s anything lurking... the seller is also older and doesn’t want a lot of tradespeople in their house with the current pandemic so we’d like to be as respectful of that as possible without compromising the sale... but then something I read made them sound complusory.

Most of them will just say they aren't up to current regulations. Which unless they were done in the past year or so they won't be. Still perfectly safe to live with, just not up to the current regs. I wouldn't bother if I were you.

Ours had an elderly couple living in it and part of the gas and part of the electrics came out as risk of death by the gas engineer and the electrician. The electrician could tell by just a quick look round rather than a report and the gas could tell with a quick look. So not sure you need to pay for reports but would get professionals in to look before you use things. We used lights and boiler before and that was fine. It was gas fire for the gas and I think loose live wires for electrics. We are just having one of the electrical reports on our house today so will see whart is says. Our buyer got one for here and it passed and its certainly not current wiring so I think there's a report the level below which just does safety.