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The driveway definitely doesn't slope towards the road.Possibly the front area is sloping slightly to the left (towards the original driveway- which looking at the before photo where it looks like that area was higher than the drive makes sense). The drive definitely has a slight downslope. I...

Shaled? Bricks all look in good condition. Seems to slope towards the drain that the guttering downspout on front corner of the house goes into. No-apparently no receipts/invoices but they only bought the property in 2016. Problem with waiting is that I'm not sure how well parents will get on...

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It's a Vaillant ecotec pro. Just found the "blurb" booklet online and they only guarantee it for 2 years and it was installed May 2016. One less thing to hassle about -kind of! Maybe we'll ask the seller to have it serviced and get a gas safety cert' or we can pay for one before we do the deal.

done it in the last 2 years. Think I'll call the council. Don't want all this to come back and bit us on the proverbial when we sell. No mortgage involved with our purchase but recall a survey for a mortgage 15 years ago telling us we needed to remove the block paving bricks where they were...

Exactly! Madness when you've paid for a new combi'. It's their first house. Maybe they'll learn the hard way. Agree re block paving guarantee. Somewhere (in the legal searches I think) it says what the nature of the soils are. I'll have a look but don't think it's clay. Not sure the company...

Apologies. Have a head full of fluff ATM. The drain I posted the photo of is the one for bathroon sink/shower up the side of the house. There's a downpipe on the front corner of the property, but how much of the surface water run off will end up in there is debatable. None from the area that was...

How do you find out whether they're going to the drains ? LA drainage search? Same here re steep and NARROW driveways and busy roads on hills. Most have cr..py little narrow steps at the front door and from kitchen into the garage. They sell like hot cakes if they're in any sort of a decent...

In the process of buying this property for elderly parents. It's not located on a classified road. Current owners have replaced the gravel and paving stone driveway and walled ?paving and gravel front garden since they bought in 2016. The BP is only 1 brick below the DP course and best practice...

Exactly the same here. They're like hens' teeth ,p;us "developers" are buying ones that haven't been touched for years but doing silly things like putting baths with showers over in bathrooms and just generally not thinking about accessibility.Price per square foot compared to houses is about...

Sorry- I didn't appreciate this. I've attached photos. The down pipe/drain is up the side of the house and it appears that the block paving is sloped in that direction. The last photo is from 2016

but surely rain splash is a different issue to water run off from a large area of hard standing when it comes to the potential for damp issues? Other people have said it's not an issue, but then why have best practice standards which say 2 bricks? Why not just do it right ? My understanding...

Bungalow is top price for it's size in the area because it's had a lot of work done by current owners who bought it in 2016. Not just the rewire, but new combi boiler and rad's, new kitchen and bathroom and completely new block paved driveway/parking to the front. They aren't producing a...

communication,communication,communication

My elderly parents are in the process of purchasing a bungalow which had a full rewire 2 years ago. The solicitor has verified that there's a Building reg's certificate but we wanted to know about any guarantee. This is the vendors solicitors response to the query "They (the sellers) have also...

They did say on the property info form that they didn't know when it was last serviced. Maybe the CO got to the elderly lady who lived there last:eek:. Family are selling the house. So you're of the same opinion as me, which is replace it?

Thanks again. Hooting owl, interesting about the reliability of the 240, but a little concerned about potential for delays in getting the parts, especially as parents are 80 and 84. Muggles thanks for that. Actually, it would closer to the bathroom if we moved it to the kitchen,but I lnow what...

Thanks oph and footprints. Definitely no pipe(s) through the wall. So what you're saying is that it wasn't fitted correctly? How've they been having it passed as OK for the last x years? (Questions if the person who's just done the gas safety check is the same person who's been servicing it for...

Hi, first time poster here. I'm in the process of buying a bunglaow for my parents. 1969 build which originally had ducted air heating. There is a boiler in a wardrobe in the bedroom. Initially from the property info the vendors provided we were under the impression that it was installed in...