In article ,
tony sayer wrote:
In article , Darren Chapman
scribeth thus




Hi all,

Buying a house. Mortgage offer has come through and has one condition
listed:

"Our Solicitor must obtain, and place with the Title Deeds, an
undertaking that the following works will be completed within
six months from the date of the Mortgage Deed: Complete fire
break wall repair. "

Doesn't sound too bad...

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We had to have that done on an old terrace house you could go into your
loft and get into anyone else's in that block you could get down into
their place and rob 'em!

It's a bit less worrying than that, as it's from a closed bit of their roof
space. They could cut a hole in their bathroom ceiling and come over I guess
but I'm not overly concerned about that just now

So best not to let a fire do the same, it took a couple of blokes around
a sat morning and they were all done around 2 ish. Didn't cost that much
either around 8 years odd ago now ...

Ok, that's good to know. Do you know if it was "sealed" - thinking back to
all my previous places they have had walls, but not airtight sealed with
foam or anything. I've no idea if that's normal, but given the inspection
that found this was "a bloke up a ladder 10m away with a torch peering" it
doesn't feel like that level of detail was cared about...

If it can be done from my side only, and not invoke party wall issues that
would also be grand. Neighbour is away for many many months at a time in
the middle east (not seen him since Oct for example!) so that might be
painful :-/

Darren