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Barratt homes - 2005/03/21 20:34We bought a Barratt house a year ago, and we had builders in for the first 8 months doing work. We have had floods, 3 replacement carpets downstairs, 2 upstairs, handrails loose, plug sockets were hanging off when we moved in, ceilings replastered, dents and marks on walls, cupboards not fitted properly etc etc. I could go on forever. The construction director told us to get rid of our uplighter because it showed the imperfections on the ceiling. All in all, we had someone come round and he listed 4 sides of A4 paper of faults. A year later, we are still not satisfied with our new house. If anyone else has similar stories, I would love to hear from them.
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Barratt homes - 2005/03/21 20:46Granada New Homes from Hell are looking for case studies. If you are interested contact:
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Barratt homes - 2005/03/21 21:00I moved into a Wimpey home 18 months ago and only after a year did we finally feel (relatively) happy with the house. Despite countless screws showing, poor paintwork, bowing walls, wonky radiators and wonky ceilings, we had a few more serious problems. On the day of moving in they delayed us for ages because we had a leak in the kitchen. A few days after moving in I noticed water seeping through the ceiling in the dining room. The waste pipe from the sink had never been connected properly and had come loose. If we hadn't been there I dread to think of the concequences. Instead we had part of the ceiling replaced. Since then we have had a dodgy boiler and countless other plumbing problems. The plumbers are utterly incompetant. Never before have I encountered such poorly qualified and indifferent workers. I could live with the poor paint etc and probably it wouldn't have bothered me so much if everything else hadn't happened. I don't believe this is a Wimpey problem as such, I do believe it is a problem with the plumbing company but Wimpey should not be employing such people. When I asked the Site Manager why they employed these plumbers he said, "If you were selling socks and you found someone who could make them cheaper than anyone else then you would pick them" I think that tells you everything.
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Barratt homes - 2005/03/21 21:35I use to be a contractor for these mojor developers, In my contract we was given a specification sheet of what manufacturer we had to purchase our materials from, the material we was summond to use can only be describe as third rate rubbish that i wouldn't have used if it was given to us for free! When enquired about this stipulation of contract i was informed that the builder's received what's known as a backhander, something like ?50 per house on every house that this product was used in! When i established this products failings i was told to keep quite and replace the better product in the poor quality packaging, so when these rep's from these dodgy companies inspected the site to make sure the products where being used, they could see they product packaging in the skips and issue the back hander! These major house builders can build hundreds of houses a year, so you can guess the return being made! It's not about quality, it's about profit's!
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Barratt homes - 2005/03/21 22:23[quote:ce7d89d97f="Tony"]Granada New Homes from Hell are looking for case studies. If you are interested contact:
Kate Jackson Granada Television 020 7633 2697[/quote:ce7d89d97f]
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Barratt homes - 2005/08/16 15:29 Tell it like it is, M8 8O 8O 8O
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