Andy_and_lou
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We went sale agreed on a house 4 months ago, at the time we got an engineer to do an inspection. In his report he recommended a test be carried out. Anyway at the time I told my solicitor who said that he would put it as a condition when he got the contracts. To make a long story short we spent about 10 weeks chasing vendors for contracts and after we got the contracts we were looking for a closing date which took another couple of weeks...I had presumed that their solicitor was aware of this test etc but when we eventually went into sign contracts last week I just happen to mention it again to my Solicitor who said he had mentioned it to their solicitor at the start but had never heard anything back and with all the tooing and froing sp? with contracts and closing dates it had obviously fallen by the wayside. This wasn't much good to us obviously, but in about 24hr we had arranged for a company to go to the house and carry out the test (which we also paid for) anyway the Test showed there is a problem, which can be fixed but will cost 2.5K. Rang my Solicitor who contacted their Solicitor who proposed that they pay Half and we pay Half. Now I don't think we should have to pay any of it and also I think we could be awkward and insist that the problem be rectified before any money passes over. But instead we are willing to go ahead with the purchase and get the work done ourselves (this is going to be quite a big and messy job) I think the least they can do is give us the 2.5K off the asking? They have delayed this sale from there end for months and now they are giving out that we are delaying them, if it wasn't for all the delays from their side I doubt we would be in this position now. Anyway are we right or are we wrong to insist on the full amount??
Thanks in advance
Thanks in advance