Any builders here? new build photos bit of an update

From the photos you would hope the shoddiness will be put right before being signed off. Looks to be no pride in the workmanship, brickwork and pointing and general state looks dreadful but hopefully it will be put right. There are good builders out there but also dreadful ones.

I would looking in places you can't see, plumbing, loft space to see that regs have been adhered too.

Hope it's sorted.

Tim.
 
That pic of the chap working on the JCB was very similar to the one where the builder got fined 10k for exactly that.
 
Always like this guys videos of new builds.

https://youtu.be/AY0U3C0lwUk

Words fail, never know how these houses get signed off :cry:

Tim.
 
pvr said:
That pic of the chap working on the JCB was very similar to the one where the builder got fined 10k for exactly that.
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Is he actually on the JCB though...looks like an optical illusion and he's on the ladder :?
 
mr wilks said:
why has the front pike got a cement pointed verge when the side gable has a dry verge ?
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Pleae explain the differance as I had not notice it and would like to know so can question them
 
Think I have it with the help of Google

All the finished gables are dry verge it is just the photos one gable end still needs finishing off
 
mmm-five said:
Is he actually on the JCB though...looks like an optical illusion and he's on the ladder
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He was on a ladder but the JCB should be parked up with the forks on the ground and better still with no driver in it
 
PDJ said:
Think I have it with the help of Google

All the finished gables are dry verge it is just the photos one gable end still needs finishing off
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The dry verge system goes in as you tile , you dont fit them over existing & you can see they have already pointed it :cry: the tile straps holding down the last tile are visible .
Tell them you want them stripping back & dry verges fitting , the cement rarely lasts long & leads to the batten ends rotting eventually .
When are you due a pre handover viewing ?
 
mr wilks said:
When are you due a pre handover viewing ?
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They don't do that it is legal completion and then the same day snaging so you are under pressure, but I am not moving in straight away so they will be disappointed if they think they can do snaging while the furniture is going in as it will not be the case

So back to not being sure what they have done with the roof

Think I have got it now the side gabbles are dry the front smaller one is wet found some better pictures

But too big to upload

Need to reduce them could be a while as need to google that again
 
The builder will not change anything from their plan not even a light switch or finish of the interia paint (they use gloss that goes yellow if it does not see sunlight)

I wanted a shed/workshop base digging out and was told we can't do that it has to be finished flat as per the drawing.

The drive has a fall on it according to the drawing of 1:20 so 2.86 deg so almost flat but on site it looks a lot more that that so they could have changed the plan or got the road/house at the wrong hight from the datum point.
 
TitanTim said:
Words fail, never know how these houses get signed off
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Because the developers do their own building regs and their own inspections and then sign them off themselves. It's a closed shop. No-one else gets involved.
The developers are in the pockets (or the other way around) of the NHBC who provide the warranty. It's a complete sham IMO.

The Government are on board as it saves the LABCs (Local Authority Building Control) having to do the work on thousands and thousands of properties, so saving the Gov millions in extra staff and work.

Having worked for one of the big developers, Redrow, (not on the construction side I might add) and having a friend who works in the claims dept of the NHBC, and having built houses myself (not commercially), some of the things I have seen and heard of are unbelievable. And all perfectly legal!

My friend in the NHBC had to condemn a row of houses and pay the owners out for them to be demolished as the developers "forgot" to put enough cement in any of the mortar. Seriously! Another whole row of new houses had to be demolished as the developers "mistakenly" dug the foundations a metre too shallow and they started subsiding before they were occupied.
 
Pondrew said:
TitanTim said:
Words fail, never know how these houses get signed off
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Because the developers do their own building regs and their own inspections and then sign them off themselves. It's a closed shop. No-one else gets involved.
The developers are in the pockets (or the other way around) of the NHBC who provide the warranty. It's a complete sham IMO.

The Government are on board as it saves the LABCs (Local Authority Building Control) having to do the work on thousands and thousands of properties, so saving the Gov millions in extra staff and work.

Having worked for one of the big developers, Redrow, (not on the construction side I might add) and having a friend who works in the claims dept of the NHBC, and having built houses myself (not commercially), some of the things I have seen and heard of are unbelievable. And all perfectly legal!

My friend in the NHBC had to condemn a row of houses and pay the owners out for them to be demolished as the developers "forgot" to put enough cement in any of the mortar. Seriously! Another whole row of new houses had to be demolished as the developers "mistakenly" dug the foundations a metre too shallow and they started subsiding before they were occupied.
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Thanks for the explanation, as per usual all sounds of cost cutting which is then passed onto the customer at the end of the day :cry:

There was a small new development near to me some years ago, all became occupied and then some 18 months later the developers had to buy all the properties back as the foundations were substandard and suffering subsidence. They ended up underpinning and resold them.

Tim.
 
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