FENSA - is it necessary

elfin safety. You have to be trained to use a ladder and have done the "Working at heights" course if more than 6' above the ground. You will notice that sky dishes are now installed on the sides of houses no more than 8 to 10' from the ground...

The LA can serve a notice (a 'Section 36') requiring the owner to rectify a contravention up to 12 months after its occurrence (I think this has also been extended for Energy Efficiency requirements- see above).

Action can be taken on existing buildings containing flats of three or more storeys to ensure there are adequate fire precautions, and there are the dangerous buildings sections if you really c*ck it up (like the landlord who decided that he could get a couple of extra flats in his house by digging down 2m in one go).

In practice, as someone else has pointed out, getting the Council's solicitors to do anything within the time allowed is so tortuous and time-consuming that my LA only takes any formal action against the most serious and/or serial transgressors. The main sanction for everyone else is the withholding of a Completion Certificate."

And what happens if you have neither? Hung drawn and quartered or simple beheading?

Since the FENSA thing is quite recent - how would a buyer know when the windows were installed?

Cos the seller is supposed to tell em (and there is a date stamp on many sealed units!)

Mine did: I have done a lot of work and wanted to make sure that I got the credit. EA said it was one of the first Cs he seen. Hasn't helped so far: just one expression of interest who wants to knock the asked £300K down to £250K (for obvious reasons).

John Rumm coughed up some electrons that declared:

And my numpty buyer's solicitor asked the question, so obviously their surveyor wasn't paying much attention to the clearly marked dates on the 4 new windows!

Your numpty solicitor just sends out a standard list of questions.,

This costs him (you) less than his going through them to work out which ones he needs to ask

tim

And quite adequate they are there too!. Ours are up a corner of the garden on the ground and painted greenish brown and you wouldn't know we had two:)...