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Couple’s internet protest over builders blunders

A couple whose £700,000 newly-built home is still unfinished seven months after they moved in have become a surprise internet hit after setting up a website cataloguing their domestic woes. The couple, who have four daughters, claim they have been left living in a dusty construction site, frequently without power or appliances. Entrepreneurs Rennie and [...]

Homes from Hell 2008

We are also keen on home-related stories such as first time buyer nightmares, fights with local planning departments over new homes or extensions, a builder who wants to blow the whistle on bad practice, the estate agent selling duds etc. If you have VIDEO FOOTAGE of your House from Hell we are definitely interested! Please [...]

Finding fault with flagship development

Families living on a flagship housing development say their lives are being made a misery by a catalogue of failings by building firms. Last month, the Evening News revealed how homeowners on the Fellowes Plain estate on the former hospital site off Wessex Street were being blighted by 20ft-high silos placed within yards of their [...]

Case Study Required House Beautiful

I write for House Beautiful Magazine and am doing a research on families who have had major problems since they bought their new build home, or who have renovated their properties with a builder who didn’t charge VAT who turned out to be a cowboy and didn’t do the job properly. If you’re female, aged [...]

Why our homes should be built to last

House Beutiful have launched a campaign to improve the quality of new homes in the UK because according to the Office of Fair Trading almost one in four people who buy a newly built home complain of serious quality problems and snagging issues So you are not alone, lets hope that the OFT actually do [...]

National House-Building Council

The Watchdog team investigated the National House-Building Council (NHBC) yet again on 21 April 2008. It seems that the NHBC or some builder is on televsion every six months or so without fail. Hopefully, the Office of Fair Trading will make recommendations in the summer that will improve consumer rights. I bet Imtiaz Farookhi the [...]

Mum told boiler ‘could be lethal’

When Lisa Peplow and her family moved into a brand new home she rightly assumed everything had been fitted to the highest standards. But at the weekend the mother-of-two discovered the boiler installed by Persimmon Homes before she moved in, could have leaked potentially fatal carbon monoxide fumes.

New Consumer Site Launched

The site is in a blog magazine format with sections on Consumer Complaints, Consumer Rights and general consumer information.

Dream home turns to nightmare

“As soon as we collected the keys we noticed problems with the decor throughout the building. The dry lining was visible on every wall and ceiling. We also found that the kitchen had not been built to the specification we had been given, there was one kitchen unit less. As if that wasn’t enough, the [...]

Couple’s new home is ‘plagued by problems’

A Basingstoke couple say their new home is turning out to be less than a dream. Richard Jones and Natasha Lewis moved into a new two-bedroomed house built by Persimmon Homes, off Old Kempshott Lane, last December. Since then, they say many of their complaints about the property have been left unresolved. The latest problem [...]

My home became an electrical deathtrap

A leading housebuilder has launched an investigation into how one of its homes was turned into a deathtrap by damaged electrical wiring. Darren Korol suffered 230-volt shocks when he touched the cooker in his new £220,000 Barratt Homes. flat in Crawley, West Sussex. The 41-year-old print salesman’s children suffered jolts from the bathroom taps. An [...]

New Home Blogs

Blogging about your problems is a very effective way of getting your snagging problems dealt with. You can now set up a blog in under five minutes on our sister site New Home Blogs, just visit this link for blogging instructions. If you have any problems just drop me a line – tony@snagging.org

Angry buyers’s bus protest

A furious Gourock homeowner has taken his protests against an up-market building firm on to the roads of Inverclyde. Robert Wilson has branded his new £500,000 dream home a nightmare after finding a staggering 210 faults. Angry at repeated delays in getting the repairs done, Robert put a large sign on the side of a [...]

Complaints flood in as Persimmon pipes burst

As Ian and Margaret were out delivering Christmas presents on the Saturday before Christmas they received a phone call from their son Mark asking them to return home quickly because the Fire Brigade were there. Persimmon Homes Flooding Article

No sinking plots at housing development

A building company working near Bridgwater has quashed rumours suggesting plots on its new homes site are sinking into the ground. Persimmon Homes South West, constructing houses on the new Stockmoor Grange development on Taunton Road, responded after claims were made to the Mercury that plots on the site were sinking and work was being [...]

Homebuyers face delays

Homebuyers hoping to move into a new central Watford development before Christmas may not get the keys to their new flats until June. Covered in white plastic sheeting, construction work at the Queensgate development in Loates Lane has stagnated while the building standing next to it, named The Pulse, has reached completion – despite starting [...]

Are Barratt Homes trying to kill people?

Are Barratt Homes trying to kill people in Thornbury in their quest to build more homes? They have erected a security fence with plastic shuttering to protect prying eyes from their building site at the junction of Upper Bath Road and Rock Street. This has created an extremely dangerous situation for vehicles trying to exit [...]

Housebuilders to launch code of conduct by Easter

The housebuilders, the NHBC and HBF have been consistently stating that the OFT (Office of Fair Trading) will give the industry a clean bill of health once the market study is complete in August. This articleclearly shows that this was just spin from the public relations people.

Another Angry Miller Home owner

Miller Homes Scotland are one of the largest builders of new homes in the UK. They have been in dispute with one of their customers for over 4 years. This property, built by Miller Homes Scotland West, has been uninhabited as a result of defects and a dispute over how they should be repaired.

Not so Greatworth

We purchased our dream House, ‘bespoke’ claimed the builders, it would be ready to move into in January. There were numerous problems along the way but we finally moved in on April 12. When we were given the keys we were told of a few minor problems that would be sorted out asap. To give [...]

 

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