New Build Nightmares - ITV Tonight - 5/9/19

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  • @martinpoole1451
    @martinpoole1451 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Cleaning out your own sh*t is one thing, having to clear your neighbours floaters is another.

    • @Nine-Signs
      @Nine-Signs ปีที่แล้ว +1

      From personal experience I can safely say there are few things more community minded than rodding away all your neighbours sweetcorn from your garden drain junction just because some twat of a greedy landlord crammed 6 students into a 2 up 2 down who put anything they want down the crapper.

  • @tomatobrush3283
    @tomatobrush3283 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    The builders have no sense of pride in their work. It is just rush rush rush. They built 1000s of Victorian homes with less technology and they have lasted over 100 years. The finishing work is terrible in the UK these days.
    The only solution is for people to refuse paying for the property off plan before it is built and only buy property once it is already been built. That way they will be forced to do it right.

    • @PeterPeter-yw2hl
      @PeterPeter-yw2hl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That’s very true. Houses from the Victorian era or before were built with pride and beauty and quality. Shocking shame the way new houses are built in the U.K. now, just thrown up like Lego brick houses and built for profit only

    • @flybystu69
      @flybystu69 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gov caused this prob apprenticeship??

    • @tomatobrush3283
      @tomatobrush3283 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@flybystu69 Some blame foreign workers, others blame lack of skill in general.

    • @SCARFACE-gp4fy
      @SCARFACE-gp4fy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You are 💯 correct I work for a big house builder never been so busy it's all about volume trying to do far to much with to little men on site there's being busy but being far to busy hits moral everyone on site is getting totally pissed off with it.

    • @Lee-wg7en
      @Lee-wg7en 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@PeterPeter-yw2hl same with Soviet-era houses all over the former Soviet Union, namely the high-rise complexes, they are still in fine condition. There is even one in Moscow (I think) that houses an enormous number of people, something like 20,000?

  • @margaretjanewatkins540
    @margaretjanewatkins540 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    A niece of mine bought a house in Oxford from one of the biggest builders mentioned here there was so much wrong with it she sold it without even moving in. Believe me this is just the tip of the iceberg absolute crap!Philw

  • @benjones1180
    @benjones1180 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    New builds are shocking , but…. You can spend the same or more on a older house and trust me they are also riddled with problems !

    • @rozzer666
      @rozzer666 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Indeed. If a home didn't have problems the owners wouldn't sell in the first place

  • @laverdajota8089
    @laverdajota8089 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    All new builds should have a money hold back scheme from A NON BIASED organisation,that holds back 30 % of money from builders for 6 months ,giving the new owner a chance and Faults are rectified before final payment . That would make these builders do a proper job .

    • @denig2000able
      @denig2000able 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      100% agree. They would pull their socks up quick.

    • @rozzer666
      @rozzer666 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thats a good idea

  • @florida10100
    @florida10100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I spoke to a builder with over 30 years experience. He told me they are built to a timescale so they are just thrown up!!!! I’ve got a 1935 semi detached which needs a few jobs doing to it but it’s beautiful!!

  • @laverdajota8089
    @laverdajota8089 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Half million pound house in Ebbsfleet , wow , 20 years ago you could have bought EBBSFLEET for that price ,

  • @kristinesharp6286
    @kristinesharp6286 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    If it was not built to fire code why hasn’t the developer been forced to pay? Get rid of leasehold too.

    • @LucasFernandez-fk8se
      @LucasFernandez-fk8se 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why can’t the condo board pay? If they used legal building materials at the time and these cowards are that afraid of the building going up in flames (very unlikely) then the condo board can just pay to reclad it

    • @kristinesharp6286
      @kristinesharp6286 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LucasFernandez-fk8se they actually will take of low rise homes now.

  • @hannecatton2179
    @hannecatton2179 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Watching from Denmark this is shocking. Why have standards fallen so low in the U.K. ?

    • @stumac869
      @stumac869 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Tom D, I lived under rip off Labour too, no difference between any of them.

    • @PeterPeter-yw2hl
      @PeterPeter-yw2hl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because most builders in the U.K. lack skills and integrity like they used to have in the Victorian era. They build houses here in the U.K. for profit only for the developers and have no sense or beauty or pride in their work like many years ago

    • @SCARFACE-gp4fy
      @SCARFACE-gp4fy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Every 3rd house on a site is pure profit its all about profit greed I have seen some crap trades men on site not long ago a brickie was building a brick 6ft boundary wall my god it was shocking mortar beds all different sizes elevation was bevelled off plumb should have been torn down and started again you would have to be daft to buy a new build.

    • @fookorf
      @fookorf 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @eddie mclaughlin fcuk 0ff with your BS. The UK is a backwards cesspit of corruption and profiteering precisely because of cnuts like you who are happy to vote against your own interests and blame all our problems on immigrants and the EU. You have the country you deserve, shith34d. Enjoy it.

  • @hayleymsiebert7526
    @hayleymsiebert7526 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My mum got a new build from the council completed by a developer called Hill. Within a few days of moving in sewage flooded from the drains into her garden. There’s cracks all over the walls. The turf also was laid poorly and it died.
    She said she’s lucky as she got support from the council but she said she felt sorry for those who spent money on these properties.

  • @KevinBower-gy5be
    @KevinBower-gy5be 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The reasons for all of this are perfectly simple. Take the smallest
    possible plot of land, the cheapest possible materials, the cheapest
    possible fixtures and fittings, use the maximum number of shortcuts, and
    employ tradesmen on ridiculously low-paid price-per-item work so that
    the only way they can earn a living is to throw everything together as
    fast as possible. Example = Bovis and Persimmon both pay joiners just
    £20 to hang a door, including trimming to fit what's usually a badly
    aligned and out-of-true MDF frame, cutting out rebates and mortises for
    hinges and locks, and fitting all of the hardware. The only way that
    guy's going to feed his family is to bodge in 8-10 of these per day.
    Result = huge profits for the developers and their shareholders, and a
    generation of fleeced homeowners living in something which is little
    short of a prefab. The Victorians built vast numbers of houses - most of
    which are still standing after 100+ years and will, in all probability,
    last at least another 100. Can anyone imagine this modern-day
    cardboard, plastic and MDF crap lasting that long ?? Posted by an
    ex-site work carpenter.

    • @peterfishwick7291
      @peterfishwick7291 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So true Kevin, I'm in the middle of renovating my house which was built in 1927 and it's built like a tank - all interior walls brick. All doorframes solid oak. No stud walls, no MDF, no plastics the roof support beams are oak 21" x 8", all floorboards oak, just down the road from me they are building six new builds, in the time it took me to tile my bathroom they had built three houses - all just breezeblock outer stud wall inner and literally thrown up in minutes - they won't be standing in 100 years

    • @guitarlover302
      @guitarlover302 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Couldn’t agree more ! Lots of houses being built in Ribble Valley Lancashire starting at £325 k - tiny little boxes - no character - being built on flooded land ! Snob value also played on by builders selling detached houses to masses 😱

    • @KevinBower-gy5be
      @KevinBower-gy5be 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      True. Sad but true.

  • @kristinesharp6286
    @kristinesharp6286 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I feel the second half of this was an ad. The damp. How will it handle the damp?

  • @jandedick7519
    @jandedick7519 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It’s not just the UK it’s everywhere. Where I live in a hour outside of Vancouver Canada new builds are put up in record time. Even my untrained eye can see shoddy workmanship when I walk buy. I bought into a building that was 16 years old. My inspector said my building was very well done and he didn’t see good workmanship anymore.

  • @kristinesharp6286
    @kristinesharp6286 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Drain should work and not need to be cleaned out all the time.

  • @willgraham1539
    @willgraham1539 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Mould doesn't grow with the cold, it grows in warm and damp conditions. Damp ingress from poorly fit lintels and seals is what causes mould

  • @balance3201
    @balance3201 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My 1882 terrace house still going strong.

  • @kristinesharp6286
    @kristinesharp6286 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    All that matters is they rectify it. How many of the 300 problems were the roof issue? 75? New homes have to be built. Why so far behind? People are barely having kids. Surely you could have planned.

  • @kristinesharp6286
    @kristinesharp6286 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Doesn’t the bank require an inspection before they close? Surely big stuff sorted out.

  • @kristinesharp6286
    @kristinesharp6286 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Home settle that first year. Problems after moving in can be as simple as a drawer pull missing and quickly fixed. The ten year problems are what is worrying. You can build a sound home quickly. Where are the people checking on the build as it’s happening? They build homes quickly in the 40’s.

    • @rogerbarton497
      @rogerbarton497 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      My parents' house was built in 1946. The drains from the houses above ours drained into the space beneath our kitchen. The builders laid the drains, got them inspected, pulled them back up and filled the trenches in. Then they went out of business before the problem was found five years later.

    • @kristinesharp6286
      @kristinesharp6286 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rogerbarton497 I am no expert in 1946 new build construction. Post war that is not surprising that they cut corners. The entire country pretty much had to be rebuilt.

    • @rogerbarton497
      @rogerbarton497 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kristinesharp6286Materials were expensive and labour cheap, it was suspected that these builders did the same trick with the same pipes more than once!

  • @stephenhollings1676
    @stephenhollings1676 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    each house should be passed of at each stage o the build by an independent surveyor

  • @mikethebike5014
    @mikethebike5014 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    If you want a new house build it yourself.

  • @veronicamoody3981
    @veronicamoody3981 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    They talk about creating a homes ombudsman, but the other ombudsmans don't seem to be effective. I have found them to be biased, ineffective peopled by employees who lack communication skills.

  • @XstaticState69
    @XstaticState69 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Where is the architect and Building Control?

    • @fookorf
      @fookorf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      they don't have architects, these boxes are designed by builders.

  • @stuartfitch7093
    @stuartfitch7093 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The standard of build and the materials used are just shoddy in new builds.
    I have a work colleague who paid nearly double the price for a new build with only 2 bedrooms and just parking space for his car than I did for my 50s built semi with three bedrooms and a 70ft driveway which ends with a garage. We only live about 1.5 miles from each other.
    If they redeveloped the land my house sits on then they would build three or four new builds on it, with no gardens and all overlooking each other.

    • @andrewdaley3081
      @andrewdaley3081 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You've summed it up you are no fool. Sir. 🇬🇧👍

  • @philpinto
    @philpinto 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Modular housing is quicker and cheaper to build he says. What's the betting the cost of those houses won't be any lower.

  • @timarcher7933
    @timarcher7933 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ive got a mid terraced built in 1863 .For over 50 years there have been problems with Severn Trent Water Ltd relating to Hydraulic lift due to build up of debri in there main sewer.
    All they want to do is find rediculas suposed technical reasons to defer maintence costs.They also bully people over legal cases through legal technicality.
    Oh some new builds have similar issues along with other places having historic hydraulic lift blowing heavy road covers off and causing flooding.

  • @chrisardern4594
    @chrisardern4594 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    New build dont touch em unless you want a world of grief. As for a payment retention the builder will just pass this onto the subcontractor who will just not be able to afford this. This will cause the subcontractor to not take on new build projects leaving the main builder no option but to use non skilled overseas personnel. This will only make the problem worse.

    • @steveemmett9540
      @steveemmett9540 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is what they do now,,I bet only5% have past their city and guilds .Many many have no or very little experience

  • @joshuastead326
    @joshuastead326 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Modular is not the answer. The answer is to build like our ancestors. Solid quality homes that last generations, modular has a shelf life half, if not a quarter, of a good quality traditional building. The issue here is more stringent checks. People like your surveyor should be independently employed to check new builds at every stage. The nhbc don’t pay enough or have enough staff to do this job. There needs to be independent inspections by qualified, educated trade specific specialists at every stage of a build. I’m a bricklayer and I walked away from the industry because of the shoddy work and attitudes of people working on these new builds. The developers and site managers are pretty much useless and many of them don’t even know what they are doing. It’s their job as things stand to recognise and deal with these issues. Says it all really. 50-100k a year for a site manager.

  • @jackcampbell6185
    @jackcampbell6185 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Price work causes this if everyone was paid hourly they’d all be up to a better standard

  • @gailtomlinson5510
    @gailtomlinson5510 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh and where is a new reservoir for these new house instead of telling people they can't use the water there paying for

  • @blairstewartedington5388
    @blairstewartedington5388 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I plaster new builds as a living get shy of £1000 pound for a house that sells for 500 k have to work like a dog to make that in a week you have to rush and get it done every other trade the same all price work off course you will cut corners to make a living , who is getting all the money ? ??? Not me !!!!!

  • @ChoppingtonOtter
    @ChoppingtonOtter 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    ...and yet people throw their money at these firms. As for buying a leasehold property its just stupid. I figured that out even as a teen when I first heard about it.

  • @rogbar8747
    @rogbar8747 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The big house builders buy cheap just to maximise profits, the executives of these company’s want them up quickly and on time, so they get paid their bonuses, they and their shareholders have no other concern then maximising their profit return, which in this country, is considerable.

  • @michaelhutchinson2854
    @michaelhutchinson2854 ปีที่แล้ว

    Me looking at my £27,000 in my emergency fund 💀💀

  • @checharles5224
    @checharles5224 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Astonishing and unjust.

  • @aliciathomas678
    @aliciathomas678 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How do these builders not have a conscious? I couldn’t build something that unsafe and sleep at night without worrying what if a family died because of me and cheapness.

  • @peterkelly6232
    @peterkelly6232 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nor would I touch a New home all you have today is to look at the quality of builds in the North Prospect, Southway, Sherford, and Derriford in Plymouth, and take a listen to what these people are saying about living in an apartment in a tower block and what your responsibility is for the maintenance and upkeep of the building

  • @willgraham1539
    @willgraham1539 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    how can a plan be built upside down? you're just facing the wrong way to the house

  • @rozzer666
    @rozzer666 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I work on new build houses. Nhbc are in with the builders and will turn a blind eye to a lot of things. Independent snaggers although sometimes are over keen are the way forward. Most newbuilds will have minor issues though it is normal for a crack in plaster or a door to move slightly once you move in and have the heating on or changes of seasons.
    On all the sites I work on drains seem to be a huge issue though. I see whole streets affected by just 1 joint being missed and the drainage guys seem to not be the brightest

  • @RalphEllis
    @RalphEllis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We don’t need more houses, we need LESS IMMIGRANTS.
    This is simple supply and demand.
    R

    • @fookorf
      @fookorf 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      We need less stupid, ignorant, uneducated wankers like you who are too dim to understand what is actually going on so you blame immigrants by default for a problem caused by corporate greed and govt corruption . Immigrants are net contributors. Look at how things are with Brexit. We have a severe lack of qualified workers atm. Eg in the NHS! Meanwhile wasters like you are still blaming immigrants as the countries economy goes down the drain.
      Get a fucking clue you pathetic fcuk.

  • @guitarlover302
    @guitarlover302 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Couldn’t think anything worse than living in a new build box ! All the same - can reach out of house window and touch next door ! Seems to be a snob value of detached over older terraced / would much rather have a 30 year old house that is built properly - same with cars ! Drive a Saab Aero convertible 2005 - all the depreciation gone
    See so many detached boxes with new cars on the drive ! All trying to impress the neighbours 😱

    • @DXmYb
      @DXmYb 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wonder how impressed the neighbours would be if the same people shared their finances, car loans, credit cards ect

    • @richardjones1604
      @richardjones1604 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There's more of a jealous rant present in this comment than an opinion.

  • @philiphowell1505
    @philiphowell1505 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The slums of next week, never mind in 10 years.

  • @grahamcole4240
    @grahamcole4240 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What amazes me is why people still buy them? My son is buying one and I have done my best to try and persuade him not to. The guarantees are not worth the paper they are written on.

    • @KuchiKopi179
      @KuchiKopi179 ปีที่แล้ว

      My relative bough a new build detached in 2019, value has already gone up by £100k+ lol. They haggled the price down to £480k from £500k (now its worth £600k+). The house came with stamp duty paid and you can cross the road to get to the state of the art gp. I regret not buying one as an investment, interest was super low then :/

  • @beltingtokra
    @beltingtokra 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    12:30 if the developer is out of business and the warantee doesnt exist, who are the leaseholders paying their ground rent to? And why does the taxpayer always have to foot the bill for business' catastrophic mistakes?

  • @christinedavis5813
    @christinedavis5813 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Sales Team are your Best friends and the Site Manager also until they have your money, and you start having to complain about your snags, you feel isolated and the only one on the whole site Complaining your told , I really do not know how they sleep at night

  • @florida10100
    @florida10100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Up until the 50s homes where built to last

    • @richardjones1604
      @richardjones1604 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They were also built using asbestos.

    • @florida10100
      @florida10100 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@richardjones1604I know

    • @florida10100
      @florida10100 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@richardjones1604 not my house mate

  • @towkukus
    @towkukus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    leasehold should be illegal for any new properties build.. it is just a scam that can ruis people's life

  • @KeithApp
    @KeithApp 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would never buy a new-build property, even if somebody paid my deposit! It looks like too much of a headache.

  • @mancunianace8428
    @mancunianace8428 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Don't think you need a so called expert to see that loo seat is loose lol!!!!

  • @bumblaster9000
    @bumblaster9000 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    why do you keep doing close ups of the shit hahahahaha

  • @denig2000able
    @denig2000able 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why, why, why can these developers not build correctly? They would save face far better than doing so many botched jobs.

  • @michaelshore2300
    @michaelshore2300 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    In Malaysia Chinese would not move into a new house because of ghosts perhaps they knew something ???

  • @richardjones1604
    @richardjones1604 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    'Super snagger' heading up his ladder with no ppe, very 'professional'.

  • @cogidubnus1953
    @cogidubnus1953 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    If sorting out problems really were a builder's priority they wouldn't be allowed to build a single new home anywhere until they put right the issues they've already been alerted to...they'd be bust and out of work top to bottom in months...and a bloody good thing too...who else get's well paid for doing bugger all right? Yeah well, parliament, but that aside...

  • @lauramolony
    @lauramolony 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    When you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

  • @Irraticdriving
    @Irraticdriving ปีที่แล้ว

    These need some help

  • @cplevans
    @cplevans 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    360 snags. 340 will be the tiniest of paint snags and mortar snags. 18 will be stuff you could consider a defect which you could probably repair. 2, might, be justifiable issues. These companies are a con. They bring these big numbers to make people think they spent the £600 they charge well. Then they will tell their friends how many issues they have and say they should do it too. RIP off

    • @CodingAbroad
      @CodingAbroad 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yep you’ve just spent half a mil on a house! I want it perfect

    • @fookorf
      @fookorf 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      you work for one of these house builders don't you...

    • @leemccccccc999
      @leemccccccc999 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@CodingAbroadif you want it perfect you don’t buy a new build house 😂

  • @kristinesharp6286
    @kristinesharp6286 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The 20K snag will not destroy their future. They have a valuable property.

  • @joshparry6850
    @joshparry6850 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They should have a lifetime guarantee

    • @LucasFernandez-fk8se
      @LucasFernandez-fk8se 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No they shouldn’t. Pay for your own shit. If the wall is slightly outta plumb either live with it or pay to get it fixed. If the roof breaks 15 years after the home was built that’s not the builders fault, you clearly didn’t do any maintenance on it

    • @fookorf
      @fookorf 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LucasFernandez-fk8se fcuk 0ff yank. If someone has bought a house they've 'paid for their own shit' you t00l. They shouldn't have to rectify shit workmanship or maintain a roof so it doesn't fall in.
      You probably work for one of these piss poor house builders in the states. Otherwise you're a corporate bootlicker you pathetic fcuk.

  • @Trafficker1985
    @Trafficker1985 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    major impuct