Hello,
I am looking to upgrade house and move to a new area. My current house was built by builder whom had houses tested positive for Pyrite in other Estates. In my large Estate, I have heard rumours of a couple of houses having Pyrite but nothing definite.
We have no signs of Pyrite in the house but had one minor external crack going down the back of the house. As our 10 year Premier bond structural guarantee is up next year we decided to be safe rather than sorry and get the house tested for Pyrite.
The limit for being declared Pyrite free is <1% soon to be reduced to 0.6%, our test came back as having 0.3% Pyrite in 5% of the foundation tested. Therefore we were declared Pyrite free as 0.3% is seen as an acceptable level of pyrite naturally occuring
As the house has been certified as Pyrite free I was not going to include this in any adds when selling the house, however the structural engineer suggested I should. I don't want to be drawing attention to something that isn't there. If somebody specifically asks in relation to Pyrite I can give them the report showing the test results.
Can anybody advise where I stand in relation to this?
I am looking to upgrade house and move to a new area. My current house was built by builder whom had houses tested positive for Pyrite in other Estates. In my large Estate, I have heard rumours of a couple of houses having Pyrite but nothing definite.
We have no signs of Pyrite in the house but had one minor external crack going down the back of the house. As our 10 year Premier bond structural guarantee is up next year we decided to be safe rather than sorry and get the house tested for Pyrite.
The limit for being declared Pyrite free is <1% soon to be reduced to 0.6%, our test came back as having 0.3% Pyrite in 5% of the foundation tested. Therefore we were declared Pyrite free as 0.3% is seen as an acceptable level of pyrite naturally occuring
As the house has been certified as Pyrite free I was not going to include this in any adds when selling the house, however the structural engineer suggested I should. I don't want to be drawing attention to something that isn't there. If somebody specifically asks in relation to Pyrite I can give them the report showing the test results.
Can anybody advise where I stand in relation to this?