Faulty work approved by Building Control

[Fretfulmum]

We moved into a newly extended 1930s home last year thinking all we would need to do is decorate to our taste. Having lived here , we have come across so much shoddy work. We recently had our chimney swept and was told the new chimney is unsafe and leaking and it is too close to the roof edge and shouldn’t have passed building control. There is also no insulation in the new roof or new floors as we found out last winter. We have found new plug sockets in dangerous places under the dishwasher and in the bathroom which we have had moved.
Our solicitor received all the correct paperwork we bought and we have all the electrical, gas safety, EPC certificates completed within a year before we bought. Building regs certificates too. We had a level 3 structural survey carried out which picked none of this up.

what recourse do we have if building control have signed off work that doesn’t comply? Do we complain to the council?

How does a lvl 3 survey not pick up no insulation in the roof and electrical sockets in the bathroom ?

Have you checked the authenticity of the certificates?

@Diyextension the survey said that the insulation couldn’t be assessed as the roof space has been converted to living areas. The floor couldn’t be assessed as they didn’t have permissions to look under it so it only mentions if it’s carpeted or wooden floors. It is SO cold everywhere in the house that we got builders to lift up our flooring and redo part of the loft roof. They told us then there was no insulation under the plaster.

Can I contest the survey if it was performed 1 year ago?

it’s just one thing after another for expenses we haven’t planned for.

I would expect a level 2 survey to pick up those sorts of issues (and I've had level 2 surveys which have commented on the condition of loft insulation etc.) You surveyor was shit, to be blunt.

I mean, even a casual observer would notice a socket in a bathroom.

How on earth did building control sign that off? They were all over the insulation in our roof reno. They needed photos for any bits of the roof they didn't eyeball directly on visits, and were both very helpful and very specific about how everything had to be done on all the layers of insulation in question, as well as things like thicknesses of timbers and the like.

we have all the electrical, gas safety, EPC certificates completed within a year before we bought.
Wait- do you mean you didn't have the electric and gas safety reports done yourself? Are you in Scotland?

@BlueMongoose The vendor was a builder who extended and renovated the property with new boiler and electrics throughout. They had the completion certificates done just before they put it up for sale.

does anybody know if we can now do anything ? It’s been a year since we’ve been here. Would building control help or shall we contact the surveyor again? Or our solicitor who did the conveyancing?