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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 [...]

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 double-decker bus [...]

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 [...]

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 halted [...]

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 after [...]

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 Upper Bath [...]

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.

Callcut Review

While we see partnerships between local authorities and developers as key to unlocking the urban land supply that is needed to deliver housing growth, it is essential not to neglect other parts of the market. In the past, it has been the smaller and medium sized housebuilders who have delivered much of the volume growth.We [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Trouble with your Building Job?

Our aim is to put the project back on track with the help of a leading building industry mediator free of charge. The series will address the common pit-falls that arise and promote good building practice.
Are you an unhappy builder who just wants to get the job done or a desperate client locked in [...]

Blatant plug for resident blogger

I hope you have been enjoying novelist Craig Williamson’s account of buying a new Bloor home over at New Home Blogs. If you have, you may want to consider buying his new novel A Foreign Education and leaving him a review online.

Buying property: Old versus new? Those hidden costs

Whether you go for a period piece or a shiny newbuild, don’t forget the extras. Gwenda Brophy does the sums
Until recently there were two separate camps of buyers – those who would only consider period properties with their “character” and original features, and those who favoured the easy-living low-maintenance of newbuild. Period properties were derided [...]

City Point buyer still waiting to move

A woman who bought a flat in a new £200 million city development has spoken of her nightmare move.
Gemma Bernard splashed out £300,000 for a swanky apartment in Brighton’s City Point Development and was due to get the keys on September 14.
But the day before she was due to move in she was told the [...]

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 [...]

Grand Designs want your building stories

We are putting together a guide to finding and working with builders, the definitive guide on how to tackle issues including:

Drawing up contracts
Staying on schedule
Avoiding rip-offs
Finishing on time

If you’ve been involved in your own Grand Design-style building project and want to share your experiences with builders, good or bad, we want to hear from [...]

Developer warned not to let families move in

Hardline councillors have told a developer to find alternative accommodation for families caught up in a planning row, rejecting a plea to allow them to move into their new Exeter homes.
As the Echo revealed last week, 11 families have been prevented from moving into houses they bought in Kings Heath, Digby, until developers provide an [...]

 

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