House with Underpinning.

[Nico1]

My Partner and I recently bought a bungalow and had 2 surveys done, one was a home buyers as part of the mortgage and another was an independant one, neither survey came up with any notice of underpinning being carried out with both stating there had been 'minor' movement but no evidence of anything over the last few years.

We assumed the bungalow had not had any problems as the seller (daughter of deceased owner), Solicitor and Surveys didnt tell us otherwise. Both the seller and ourselves were using the same solicitor.

Last weeks (3 weeks after purchasing and moving into the property) we received a package from our solicitor containing a large amount of paperwork which included receipts and guarantees for underpinning, we are obviously a bit upset about this as we were not told by any party that this work had been done and therefore have taken house insurance etc without this knowledge.

Is anyone liable for omitting this information and do we have a leg to stand on or is it just "one of those things"?

I look forward to some help.

Thanks.

[buildersmate]

One of the forms used by solicitor's during property sales is the Seller's Property Information Form. There is no standard for this, but it would be very surprising if a question was not asked about either whether any such work has been done, and/or whether guarantees are in force covering such work.
I suggest you go back to your solicitor and ask what is contained in the sellers response to this form - you may even have the copy in this 'pack'.
Armed with that information, you can decide if someone has misled you.
However if the work has been done, the survey says the house is OK and you have a warranty in the event of a problem, I don't think you have a problem.