I think that there are illegally installed electrics in a house that I am interested in. If I want to buy the house what should I do?
As Lectrician said Call the Police - you don't need a survey to negotiate - there is nothing to negotiate - abstracting electricity is a criminal offence.I think that there are illegally installed electrics in a house that I am interested in. If I want to buy the house what should I do?
As Lectrician said Call the Police - you don't need a survey to negotiate - there is nothing to negotiate - abstracting electricity is a criminal offence.I think that there are illegally installed electrics in a house that I am interested in. If I want to buy the house what should I do?
Or, even if it is, it will be illegality of such a "technical" nature that there has not been one single prosecution for it since it became "illegal" nearly 9 years ago.Probably not actually illegal then.
I didn't mean that electricity was being abstracted, I meant that the chap had installed the electrical system around 30 years ago but then upgraded is with new lighting circuits a couple of years ago.
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Even if totally compliant with regulations, the work may have been undertaken 'illegally' (i.e. without notification as required by law) - but the OP doesn't seem even sure that the work was undertaken 'illegally'.My "call the police" was a tongue in cheek comment! There are not "illegal installations", just non compliant ones.
Indeed there are - more likely millions. However, the OP appears merely to have 'suspicions' that work may have been undertaken withoutrequired notification, and has not even suggested that there appears to be anything wrong with the installation. In that situation, if I were the seller, I think I would tell him what he could do with any request for a price reduction!Just ask for a reduction in price, even if the entire place needs rewiring it might not cost that much depending on big the place is. There are probably 100,000s of houses with 'ilegal' electric in them!.
And what makes you think this was done illegally?I meant that the chap had installed the electrical system around 30 years ago but then upgraded is with new lighting circuits a couple of years ago.
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