The truth about building regs: more cruddy information three.

A week before the purchase went ahead I had yet to have had the survey done, but I still planned to go ahead with it. Felt it was vital in fact, when the Manager at W. H Brown told me that as the flat would have had to have gone through building regulations they would have checked everything that a survey did so I could save money and time, which was crucial, by foregoing that part of the purchase. Like an idiot I believed him. When I moved in and found all the problems with the flat, I spoke with building works, they tell me that they do not cover nearly as much as a survey, they just get the gas and electric certificates and provided all that is okay, sign off the work. However, as I know to my cost, the electric certificate on my new property was inaccurate: it claimed things were in place re electricity safety that were not. It was to my mind illegal, fraudulent. And I have never seen a gas certificate, but I now know that either there never could have been a gas certificate on the property, or again if there was, that it too would be fraudulent.