
Ask Allyson Snape anything about plumbing, central heating, power showers, damp problems or roof repairs and she’ll probably have the answer. Her know-how comes not from evening classes, but a three-year saga that she and her husband John have faced since they bought a “luxury”, four-bedroom David Wilson home in the Peak District, writes Christopher [...]

A family bought a house found hundreds of defects. They could have avoided the heartache, explains Christopher Browne The McGuire family could hardly contain their excitement when they moved into the five-bedroom house they had just bought on a new estate in Cambridgeshire. “We’d been anticipating the big day for months,” says Hazel McGuire. However, [...]