On 25 Jan, 09:14, Mogga wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:00:14 -0800 (PST),
wrote:



The only documents that you will have to supply on any sale *is a copy
of the planning permission and a building regulation completion
certificate. It is not a legal requirement to have any structural
warranty for an extension.

Cheers, Geoff

Thanks Geoff. That seems to tally with replies I'm getting on other
forums. I do wonder though if the buyers will have any difficulty in
getting buildings insurance, and hence pull out of the sale, *if I
don't have some sort of building warranty.

You'd perhaps be best investigating some sort of indemnity insurance?
But unless you're selling the house now why worry?

We had an extension done and just after we started I wondered if the
buildis insuirance needed to know. They didn't really care as long as
our builder had insurance so if he knocked the house down whilst
working on it it was his problem.
When we had our completion certificate I rang them up expecting to
have to fax them through the certificate. It turned out they didn't
care and were happy to quote us the same price for building and
contents (More than has a generous limit on rebuilding costs etc)

People find all sorts of objections to try and bargain the price down
when they're buying a house. If you're very concerned then contact a
solicitor who specialises in selling houses and ask them for their
advice on what you need.

There is no need for any indemnity insurance as there is no risk to
insure against. The only possible other issue is perhaps requiring
consent under the terms of the covenants that the property maybe
subject to. Its relatively common to have a covenant requiring consent
either from the original landowner or builder for any additions to the
property.