"Peter Crosland" wrote in message
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What you need to remember is that when you come to sell your house, as you
probably will. the solicitor will ask you to certify that all building
works
have been done according to the book. This is because of a court case
where
a solicitor was held liable for NOT doing so! So now they are all covering
themselves by getting clients to carry the can. If you don't get work
passed
by the BCO then you do it at your peril. So it depends on how lucky you
feel!

Would this then be a mandatory question they ask regardless of whether the
house has had any building work done or not ?
Regardless of which, I expect there would be plenty of people who would
answer this question 'YES' knowing (or thinking) that the work had been done
to a satisfactory standard (with or without BCO approval).

Steve