Dylan121

Thanks. Very helpful. stumbled on that this afternoon. ABC+ warranty are not on the Hodge list but ABC+ themselves list Hodge as lenders who accept their warranties. So I am unsure. if not on list will they consider them on a case by case basis?

Hi guys, anyone know who Hodge Bank accept as providers of builders warranties? thanks

They said they would accept a PCC Professional Consultants Certificate. However I can’t get one of the companies on their list to give me one of them either. In fact they didn’t specify at first that it had to be by anyone in particular so I got a company to give one but the mortgage company said ummm no it has to be from someone on our list! Frustrating!! The house has a civil engineer report of a core sample done of the footings, and investigation of the steel of the house at end of build and everything is ok….. this won’t be considered by the mortgage company! It has passed building regulations and i am struggling! If it was 11 years old it would not be an issue. Where is the sense in that????? ?

Hi guys, I am buying a section 106 Holiday Let property and as such I have had to hunt for a reasonable specialist mortgage lender. I found one with a great deal and was glad it was sorted but there is a hurdle….. The house was built by 2018 but the completion certificate is dated February 2020. The owner did not get a builders warranty when building it. There is a two year period after completion date that the builder gas to take up the liability before a retrospective builders warranty can be issued. my mortgage company will not proceed without a warranty and the people on their list of approved warranty providers will not give one for another 6 months. i have found another provider who says I would have to take the liability on myself for 6 months, but I doubt the mortgage company would do that and anyway they wont accept that provider. Can ANYONE help or advise me? Is there some sort of short term structural insurance I can take out myself to plug this gap in time? how on earth can I overcome this ?? :-/ thank you everyone.

Lol. Some of the replies made me laugh. Thanks for the replies everyone. i was asking mostly because a carpenter who doubles as a builder near me did this with a large roof some years ago. maybe it would be best to dismantle the roof, build the walls up and then re-assemble the roof. I am assuming I could re-use the slates as the roof would be the same size. Would I be silly asking here how much this would cost?

Hello everybody, My house has an upstairs section which has the upstairs built as a dormer. is it possible to lift the roof without dismantling it in order to raise the walls so that upstairs is like a normal room with proper headroom? I have seen builders renovate older houses by securing the roof with these sort of stilts then knocking out the blocks of the walls supporting the roof so that the stilts are supporting the whole roof. They then turn handles on the stilts which raises the roof inch by inch, until they can add more blocks to the walls and eventually reach the desired height. They then re-sit the roof on the now higher walls and there you have your new upstairs with raised roof heights. i was wondering how difficult this process is and how costly for a section of 22 feet by 22 feet (roughly 6.5 metres by 6.5)? thanks everyone Dylan