Red Ash / Red Shale in Stafford

[Thehooperman]

But it seems a recent problem/faff about still. I was unaware of it until we started the process of selling our parents house a few months ago. To be able to sell or buy a house nowadays someone needs to fork out for that test if the buyers need a mortgage approved , even if all the other houses in that street and infact next door, have had the test and it's proved negative. The estate agent in attendance , and bloke who had just removed and chipped the floor tile in the process , looked gobsmacked when I said I wanted the floor re-instated to how it was before. A money making scheme for someone, and stress having someone insisting they have your floor drilled into in order for them to continue the purchase.

Mortgage companies have asked for this test for most 60/70s build houses for years now, it's nothing new.

I've had to pay for this test for 3 houses I've bought since 1987.

It does seem to be money for old rope particularly if the houses are on an estate built by the same builder at he same time and there is evidence that there is no red ash in adjacent properties.