Conveyencing company – they specialise in it and it’s cheaper (so the add says). Solicitors just get their office staff to do it as mentioned above. There are hold-ups and it’s impossible to get them on the phone. And they charge bigger fees in my experience.

Hi CoG,

The same thing happened in a bathroom in a house that I bought – water stains, turns out the shower was leaking. We said either cut the price or fix it – they decided to fix it. Not a year later it had to be completely renovated as it had only been temporarily repaired. Being totally naive at the time we just believed it was fixed so it…[Read more]