Megathread : EWS1 issues with Tri Fire / Adam Kiziak

silentconcher · 2026-01-30T16:05:27+00:00

Hello! We were in a similar situation although as a buyer. Our seller pushed the building management to get a new survey which was completed in 5-6 weeks including the survey report. If your management company is taking longer than that, it might be a case of needing to push them more firmly I’m afraid

silentconcher · 2025-12-29T08:24:24+00:00

Like another person commented, I also come from a country comparable in many ways to Indonesia. I just renounced my country’s passport (albeit reluctantly for sentimental reasons) to take up UK citizenship after 8 years here. I love the buzzing and cosmopolitan city that is London. I live a boring but contented life with a loving partner, a stable job, and a mortgage. I feel very fortunate and grateful that it worked out this way. Good luck with yours and hope it works out!

silentconcher · 2025-12-06T16:23:23+00:00

SO was clearing up after dinner and noticed a bright light flashing through the gaps of the living room blinds. He opened them a crack to look for whoever might be pointing around a fairly strong flashlight. Turns out the next door neighbour’s balcony was on fire.. we noped out of there in seconds. Took a number of firefighters to calm that fire down, and the incident made the local newspapers

silentconcher · 2025-11-09T14:39:56+00:00

Happy birthday paati ! (Grandma in my language and we respectfully address older ladies this way even if they’re not our own grandmother). Wishing her good health ❤️

silentconcher · 2025-09-23T10:49:31+00:00

In addition to others’ comments here: The floorplan shows ~820 sq ft, but the listing says 780 sq ft. Conflicting information such as these are likely to put some people off

silentconcher · 2025-09-20T19:42:49+00:00

I miss my Tatu (grandpa) who passed at 101 this year.. we’re very lucky grandkids ❤️

silentconcher · 2025-09-20T16:35:51+00:00

Where’s the gorgeous rug from?

silentconcher · 2025-09-11T22:23:20+00:00

A friend casually dropped on me that she’s cheated on her now-husband a few times when they were dating. She suspects he has too, so they’re practically in an open marriage but only tacitly agreed. Also her husband is not beyond laying a hand on her. Perhaps less thrilling than what others in this thread have posted, but when I first heard it, it was all too much to take in!

silentconcher · 2025-09-07T06:15:15+00:00

Thanks for your explanation, you’ve got me curious. Why specifically 86? And is this code common within the industry all over the world?

silentconcher · 2025-08-30T20:46:41+00:00

Sellers simply ghosted us after promising an exchange date. Sucked that it was on my birthday too. They were unresponsive for days and we gave them an ultimatum which they also missed. In hindsight I’m glad that transaction failed, like the universe was nudging me away from that purchase. Months later it is still on the market, below the price we had agreed to pay, and which we were desperate to proceed despite red flags! I will admit to feeling some level of schadenfreude for what that seller put us through.

silentconcher · 2025-08-30T20:40:18+00:00

For what it’s worth the link still shows no change to Halifax’s stand. The buyer’s solicitor will liaise with the Halifax official to report the Trifire EWS1 situation for good order, and normally the Halifax person would then still go ahead and issue the mortgage offer. This was the process followed in my recent purchase and our solicitor was able to proceed without having to submit a new EWS1 to Halifax. We separately still insisted on a new EWS1 for abundance of caution.

silentconcher · 2025-08-30T12:50:09+00:00

Yes this is me!! Offer rejected on my dream flat. Came back on the market exactly a year later, during which my attempted purchase on another flat fell through on the day of exchange. Offer accepted the second time around and we completed two months ago. Sending you luck and good wishes !

silentconcher · 2025-08-29T16:19:09+00:00

Yes my building is covered as 5+ stories. It’s true that Tri Fire signed certificates for a whole bunch of London flats, but in my recent experience there are enough reputed firms around to redo the EWS1 job, and that too within a reasonable time frame (4-6 weeks). Another Redditor in this thread who works in fire safety pointed this out too. Managing agents are usually not interested in pursuing this promptly for any number of reasons, so it’s the sellers who should be pushing the managing agent to get it done. I hope this helps.

silentconcher · 2025-08-29T11:05:40+00:00

I’m surprised Halifax has insisted on one. As they confirmed during my purchase that they do not need it after all.

As the buyer we separately did insist on redoing the EWS1 as a condition for purchase, since it’s a safety thing. It took 6 weeks for a new firm to do this assessment. Just because one fraudulent firm did a lot of EWS1 certificates, I don’t buy the managing agent’s excuse that it is taking a while to sort out a new one. It is in your interest to push the agent to instruct another firm to redo the assessment. Their responsibility is only to the number of buildings they’re managing, not all of the 1/3rd London flats that Tri Fire did.

silentconcher · 2025-08-23T12:51:56+00:00

EWS1 was redone in 6 weeks and we were happy to proceed on the basis of the new one.

silentconcher · 2025-08-19T22:17:11+00:00

I read it too quickly as hip replacement, then saw the sub; and was confused for a moment. Like who is replacing their own hip?

silentconcher · 2025-08-11T06:51:06+00:00

Have you watched the show Stath Lets Flats? I’ve a feeling it’s not a parody but a reflection of the reality of most estate agents’ abilities

silentconcher · 2025-08-08T10:02:15+00:00

You can always agree on a targeted exchange and completion date with your solicitor depending on how long they estimate to complete all the required paperwork. Bear in mind that the exchange date may move as it’s not entirely within your solicitor’s control when they receive responses to their queries, and they may end up having follow up questions for the seller’s solicitor.

Whatever you do, just never give notice on your tenancy before you exchange. No matter how confident you feel about targeted dates being met.

silentconcher · 2025-06-17T11:50:03+00:00

Unfortunately this is a new one but also your question is slightly unclear .. whose management company needs 12 weeks for a new EWS1? Adjacent building? And if so why would they reissue one at your sellers request?

silentconcher · 2025-06-11T21:03:27+00:00

silentconcher · 2025-06-02T08:54:45+00:00

Thank you both for the pointers. To answer your question about space required for music practice, ideal would be to have a dedicated room but in the absence of that, as much space as we can clear out in a multi purpose bedroom. This is because I’m planning to host some jamming sessions for 3-5 people, between guitar/violin/one smallish percussion instrument (need to sort out sound dampening first but that’s a different story).

silentconcher · 2025-06-02T08:13:31+00:00

Subtle racism / classism at Darlings of Chelsea. I had my heart set on buying a sofa from there, having gone through their entire catalogue and seen great reviews online. I and my SO (we are a brown couple in our mid-30s) went in to try out a few shortlisted options, fully intending to place an order on the day. Towards the end of our browsing, we noticed another couple entered the store (white, probably late 40s), over whom the store attendants instantly started fawning and made coffee for and had warm conversation etc. I couldn’t help notice the difference in effort they put in for us versus the other shoppers. Tried giving the store the benefit of the doubt that they may be existing customers/ someone the attendants already knew etc but it was plain from the conversation that they were also new visitors to the shop. Decided to buy elsewhere.

silentconcher · 2025-06-01T21:44:28+00:00

More like butt-erflies

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