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A homebuyer survey will tell you the boiler exists and recommend you have it checked. It will not tell you whether it is any good, whether the paperwork is in order, or what the house will cost you in the first two years.
Those are answerable before you exchange, and Grange Farm is exactly the sort of 1990s and 2000s family housing where the answers vary a great deal between two houses on the same street.
We are based in Two Mile Ash, minutes away. Gas Safe registered, registration number 981362.
- Gas Safe registered 981362
- Minutes from Two Mile Ash
- Ask for the boiler paperwork before you exchange, not after
- Booked work Monday to Saturday, 8am to 8pm
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Five things to ask before exchange
- 1
Is there a Building Regulations Compliance Certificate for the boiler?
Every gas boiler installation must be notified to Building Control. If the seller cannot produce the certificate, the work may never have been notified, and that becomes your problem when you sell rather than theirs now. Ask early, because it is a negotiating point and a slow thing to resolve late.
- 2
Is there paperwork for the unvented cylinder
if the house has one? Unvented hot water installation is notifiable too.
- 3
What is the servicing history?
A boiler with no service record has a manufacturer warranty that exists on paper only. If the appliance is still in warranty and has never been serviced, that warranty is likely worthless.
- 4
How old is the boiler, honestly?
The data plate gives you the model, and the model dates it. Fifteen years is a full life. A boiler at twelve is not a crisis and it is a number worth having before you agree a price.
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Which hot water system is it?
Cylinder plus loft tanks means gravity fed, and the showers will be weak by design. That is fixable, and it is a cost, and it is much better known before exchange than after.
What a survey will not catch
A silently passing toilet cistern. Shows on a water bill and nowhere else. Test it with food colouring in the cistern once you are in.
A system full of magnetite. Radiators cold at the bottom is the sign, and a viewing in July will not show you that.
A slow leak under a floor. The meter test finds it in an hour and no survey does.
Whether the radiators are sized for how the system now has to run. Part L requires new systems designed for a 55°C flow temperature, and radiators sized for the older, higher temperatures will underperform on any replacement system.
Worth doing in your first month
A boiler service, if you cannot establish when the last one was. It gives you a baseline set of readings to compare next year, and on a house of this age it frequently finds something worth knowing. See boiler servicing.
Then find the stopcock, test it, and test every isolating valve under the sinks. See our stopcock guide.
The housing in Grange Farm
1990s and 2000s family housing on the western side of the city. Original systems are now at or past the point where the boiler, cylinder and radiators reach end of life together, which is why replacing them as a designed system beats swapping the boiler alone. See central heating installation.
Hard water
Same Anglian Water supply as the rest of Milton Keynes, around 300 mg/l of calcium carbonate against a UK average of 207, and this side of the city sits at the harder end of that range. See our hard water guide.
Getting to Grange Farm
Minutes from Two Mile Ash. One of the fastest responses we offer.
Frequently asked questions
What paperwork should the seller have for the boiler?
A Building Regulations Compliance Certificate from the installation, warranty documentation, and a servicing record. Ask before exchange.
There is no certificate. Is that a dealbreaker?
Not necessarily, and it is worth raising. Your solicitor can advise on regularisation or indemnity insurance, and it is a fair negotiating point.
Should I get the boiler checked before buying?
If you can, yes. A service tells you far more than a survey line saying the boiler exists.
The house has a cylinder and tanks in the loft. Does that matter?
It means a gravity system, so the showers will be weak by design. Fixable, and worth knowing the cost before you agree a price.
Do you cover Crownhill and Medbourne?
Yes, along with Two Mile Ash, Hazeley, Oakhill and Shenley Church End.
What we do in Grange Farm
Where we cover in Grange Farm
- Grange Farm
- Crownhill
- Two Mile Ash
- Medbourne
- Hazeley
- Oakhill
- Shenley Church End
Get in touch
Call 07514 312117 or send a WhatsApp. Gas Safe registered 981362, CIPHE member, fully insured.