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Snagging Stories

Noisy Bryant Homes Flats

The Daily Mail has an article today about widespread problems with poor sound insulation in new build homes. What do you expect when there is no standards and homes simply have to adhere to a set of theoretical standards managed by a company called Robust Details Ltd (I think that must be [...]

Snagging 2.0

Well it is about time we embraced all things web 2.0 and have set up various social media profiles to help raise awareness of snagging issues and the lack of consumer rights when buying a new build home. Even some of the builders are starting to use these tool which is a sure [...]

Shoddy house builders blasted by Selby residents

RESIDENTS of a new Barratt estate claim the house-builder has gone against planning approval for their homes to save cash.
Paula Walter and John Davies (above), backed by other residents of The Haven, claim Barratt Homes promoted 37 top-of-the-range Selsdon properties for sale after being granted planning permission for the house type but actually built bottom-of-the-range [...]

Residents threaten legal action against Persimmon Homes

In a recent incident, workers cut through a water main and flooded the road and residents say they’ve not received so much as an apology.
One woman seeking legal advice, who didn’t want to be named, said: “They don’t seem to give a damn. It was like a river in Gaston Way and the water flowed [...]

Are you the victim of bad builders?

A new BBC television programme is looking for people across the UK whose lives and properties are currently in a state of chaos or disruption thanks to cowboy workmen.
This is your chance to get the job finished properly  and call to account the builders, plumbers, electricians, roofers or joiners responsible for the problem.
Please leave a [...]

Couple shame Bovis with internet list of dozens of faults with new £700,000 home

Instead, it has been dogged by botched jobs and unfinished building work which has left them living in a dusty construction site.
Faults and repairs mean they are frequently without power and their garden is too dangerous to enter after being dug up twice because of drainage problems.
Read more about Bovis HomesVisitors to Bovis Homes’ website [...]

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 electrician later discovered [...]

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

Couple’s disgust at house from hell

WHEN Jeff Hill and his partner bought a brand new house, they thought everything would be domestic bliss.
But their stay on Pleasant Close in Pontllanfraith was anything but pleasant, as a series of problems and defects blighted their lives for almost a year.
Mr Hill, 34, a supervisor at a food manufacturing factory, and his partner [...]

Angry Miller Home owner sets up blog

The problems with my flat are so bad that it is virtually un-saleable at present. Estate agents believe that to offload the property I would have to knock around 50%, £250,000, off the suggested selling price (if the roof, windows & pipes didn’t leak, the underground car park didn’t flood and the wind whistle through [...]

Wimpey the Facts

We made a few visits to the site as the development (1st phase) went up and were shown plans outlining street furniture, types of soft landscaping etc and all was well. We ended our rental agreement as we didn’t need another six month lease and moved everything we owned into garages amongst friends and [...]

Persimmon Homes from Hell

It got off to a bad start when they held back the keys for 4 hours after receiving our funds at 1 o’clock. We didn’t receive keys till 5.30 having booked a van and given notice on our rented property at the time and booked holiday from work.
On moving in we had no water or [...]

Unfit for Habitation Bryant Homes

Bryant Homes would not let us into the property until 10 days before completion “for health and safety” reasons! We were pressed to complete on December 21st and since then have been the owners of a property that is quite frankly NOT FIT TO RESIDE IN!! There is currently scaffolding to the whole front elevetion [...]

Inconsiderate Barratt Homes

Barratt have not even completed the first house on the estate the are working on at Newbiggin by the Sea in Northumberland but already have the residents of the only access road up in arms.
Somehow they were granted planning permission to build 44 houses on a small plot of land just behind the Front [...]

Persimmon Homes Shifting House

We bought our house new from Persimmon in July 2000. Since then we have had problems with internal and external cracking which for four years Persimmon refused to take seriously or investigate the root cause.
The NHBC were contacted and eventually independent engineers were appointed to monitor the house. The house has moved and [...]

Stress Free Bryant Homes

With our third child due in September, January was the ideal time to think about buying a new home. Despite not being offered full market value, trading in our old home under Bryant’s part exchange scheme would be the most stress free method of moving, or so we were told.
We reserved the house in February [...]

David Wilson Homes Blog

Follow Scott and Kath Turner as through the process of buying a new David Wilson Homes house. Hopefully, like most of the other bloggers they will get a house finished to a better standard than most. Or maybe not…
David Wilson Homes

A George Wimpey Home

One would expect two fundamental requirements to be met on completion of purchase: that the house looks OK from the front (at least) and that the house is watertight.
It is also essential that site management does not avoid householders and does not leave sales representatives to act as the only accessible site representatives.
George Wimpey [...]

David Wilson Homes Customer Care

We purchased a 2 bed flat from DWH in May 2003.
We only went to look at the Development with no intention to buy and came away determined to purchase one of the flats. The deposit was down within a week. The flat was near complete and had only the kitchen, sanitary ware, skirting etc [...]

Advice from new build buyers at Fairford Leys

This article has been compiled from the mass of e-mails we receive from Fairford Leys residents concerning the problems of buying a new home in this development and we hope it will be helpful to anyone considering buying a property here.
The Pros and Cons
Buying a house is generally regarded as the biggest investment that most [...]

 

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