What is covered by defects when selling your house?

Questioner

In January we sold our house and the keys will be handed over in August. I have been very careful in reporting breakages. Now I have noticed in recent months that it is unclear to me what is really a defect and what is simply part of the situation of the house. For example, we have one tap that makes a loud noise when you close it hard. We did not think to report this because we close the tap softly ourselves. Now we know that this is probably water hammer. Are you then obliged to fix this before the keys are handed over? In other words: what really falls under defects? There has been no building inspection because the house is fairly new. Advice please, we want to adhere strictly to the legal rules but also not adjust all the small things in the house excessively.

Lawyer

No, the defect you mention is not a hidden defect in the sense of the law. The requirement is that you can no longer use the house normally for what it is intended for. Moreover, a second-hand item cannot be expected to be spotless.