Garden debris in house I'm hoping to buy

grogies · 08-02-2020 05:06AM #1

Hi,

Myself and my partner are in the process of buying a house. There is a huge mound behind the garage. It appears to be rubble/garden debris and looks to have been there a long time. The surveyor thinks it's at least 2 skips worth.
Can we ask current owners to remove it before we buy?

Advice much appreciated.

Sparky85 · 08-02-2020 12:30PM

You can ask via the estate agent, then get your solicitor to include it in the contract if they agree, do a final inspection the day before or day of closing to ensure they have complied as agreed.

looksee · 08-02-2020 01:56PM

We insisted that the sellers emptied the garage - just so we would have somewhere to put our stuff. They took out about a skips worth. Subsequently we are on our third full size skip of 'stuff'. This morning we hauled four mattresses of varying degrees of rottenness out of the undergrowth, plus a shower door unit (the floor went in the previous skip) and pretty much an entire bedrooms worth of disintegrating furniture, none of which had been readily visible in the large overgrown garden when we purchased.

murph226 · 08-02-2020 05:10PM

Have a good look around the site, I've lost count of the amount of trailers of rubbish I removed from my place after I bought it and thats not including trips to the bottle bank.

The garden was badly overgrown and when I got stuck into it I uncovered all sorts of stuff, looks like the previous tenants were using the place as a tip for years, burying and burning all manner of household waste/crap.

I'm still digging stuff out of the ground 4 years on, check the attic too!

selfbuild17 · 08-02-2020 05:43PM

You can’t insist but you can ask. Sometimes it’s easier to just negotiate a reduction in the price and you deal with it rather than working for them to.

Doop · 12-02-2020 11:18AM

selfbuild17 wrote: »

You can’t insist but you can ask. Sometimes it’s easier to just negotiate a reduction in the price and you deal with it rather than working for them to.

You certainly can insist via your solicitor.

Calahonda52 · 12-02-2020 03:46PM

Doop wrote: »

You certainly can insist via your solicitor.

In a sellers market.. I don't think insist is the word

Doop · 12-02-2020 04:04PM

Calahonda52 wrote: »

In a sellers market.. I don't think insist is the word

Yeah I suppose you are right...the seller might pull out of the sale ... un-instruct their solicitor.... refund the deposit... start doing viewings again (in the hope they will quickly achieve a price they are happy with like they just had).... all over the cost of 2 skips ...to get rid of their OWN rubbish :rolleyes:

Graham · 12-02-2020 11:47PM

Why would they do any of that? It would be much easier for them to just say no.

Garden debris in house I'm hoping to buy

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