When I made the mistake of buying a new build I told the developer not to rush the finish and that I was happy to wait a bit longer for completion. I said I'd rather not have loads of snagging to chase once I move in, but all they were fixated on was completion and getting paid. I tried telling them I wanted to inspect the property for issues before I completed purchase, but they wouldn't allow me in to the property on "health and safety" grounds until I'd completed - some BS about it being on an active construction site! They forgot when they let me walk around the actual construction site originally when they were trying to sell me the idea, but they wouldn't budge. Stupidly, I gave in and completed. Then I had 3 years of ongoing hassle with the site manager trying to get 101 problems sorted. All of my new neighbours had the same experience. I only went new build because at that time help to buy was only available for new homes. Never again.
I am sorry you had this experience, unfortunately, you are not alone in how you have been treated by the builder. I am continuously advising my customers long after I have completed their inspection on how to deal with their builder to get the snags done that I have identified. Hopefully, this might be changing with the New Home Ombudsman and the New Homes Quality Board which should be live this year. this is no consolation to yourself but should help future new-build home buyers.
If the house builders were not to receive their payment until all bodge ups have been put right , then it might be a different story , also the government should intervene and fine the persistent offenders and directors of the companies
New build quality has been in decline for some time now, the only new build I bought 25 years ago had some blatant, appalling defects. Who inspects & signs these off, Stevie Wonder? Put me off buying new builds for life.
An era where things were built to last, by people who took pride in their work and trade, in a time where there was a thing known as respect... I'm glad I live in a 1920s house. Oldest I've lived in was 1860s and it was amazing. The site guy, whatever you want to call him, who was behind these houses moved into one himself and lived in it until he died. That's what you call seeing work through to completion. Doubt anyone involved with these new builds now would set foot anywhere near them after they've been paid. Clearly this industry needs a shake up.
I've recently discovered your channel and the most common word I'm, quite rightly hearing, is "shocking". All these issues your exposing are shocking and should never have passed inspection; I'm assuming there are back-handers going on by these building companies to the inspection companies. They're so eager to get these homes built and people in and they're cutting corners to do that, which is unacceptable.
I assume the painters are on a set price per house which you would expect to require minimal filling in places or a light rub on the plaster here and there but the quality of that plastering is absolutely horrendous and looks like it was fired on with a catapult.
What’s new turd polishing and this fella gets about five a day for pulling it which should all pulled by an agent /finishing foreman while this fella creams it
What your seeing hear are cosmetic finishes , I worked for 4 decades in the house building industry and some of the things I witnessed would frighten you away from ever buying a new build house. I've seen foundations that are nothing more than rubble the builders have run out of concrete so they just build the foundation on the clay then backfill it so nobody can see it , floor slabs where the concrete hasn't been poured properly and the slab has cracked right through,instead of taking it up and doing it again they just filled in the crack with mortar to hide them this is happening all the time. I've seen roof trusses that were snapped and should have been replaced bodged up by nailing a piece of wood on them,these trusses are what hold your roof up, dangerous to say the least! I've seen load bearing internal walls built out of concrete blocks and the blocks have cracked the whole height of the wall and yet again they just bodge it up so the buyer doesn't see it. The builders are very clever at preventing the buyers from seeing the nightmares that they're paying for, quoting health and safety restrictions is a favourite trick.
I hate it when they don't add knock on to the hinge side of those doors, it should be standard but I came across that situation all the time, I used to survey and fit upvc and its not hard to get it right, mind you.... Its not hard to get most of those things right, a lack of pride/skill or maybe even both
Spot on Ian, it is not hard to get it right, and work like this should not be accepted by the site manager. Housebuilders are now procuring external doors with reduced casing width to alleviate this problem. That's the wrong thing to do as the plasterer will still dab his reveals to the hinges.
Can I just say from a tradesmans point of view Company come in price the job if it’s to high they don’t get it so they all come in low to undercut ,but there’s no money left on it to really care so it gets botched ,who’s to blame House builder ,subcontractor or tradesman sent in If a tradesamns to slow he gets kicked down the garden path Contractors got no money on the job so why should he care Housing developer stands there licking his lips and rubbing his hands together Thanx to price work stemming back to the 80s
That’s price work for you,all these subcontractors are literally buying the work and passing the crap prices on to their work force, some of that plastering looks like it’s been put on with a knife and fork, stay away from new builds they are built cheap and nasty and sold at a very high premium
Not all, every site is different and some site managers make sure everything is right before signing the home off to the customer however other sites are not good hence the houses have problems. Old houses have many defects and snags aswell which the new owners only get to know of when they start living in their new purchased property and the problem there is you have to rectify them yourself, New builds have warranty.
I fully agree price work killed the industry and subcontractors are not interested or beaten into submission by the builders to reduce their prices and produce more houses. lack of a skilled workforce results in the poor quality of new builds.
I think every new build should record the names and trade of the people who work on it and it should be given to the new owner and stored on the land register. If the trades knew this was procedure they might not be inclined to leave jobs in this state?
That's a great idea, I don't think the house builders would do that, maybe they could put the director's name and address in the handover paperwork might make a difference.
In 30 years on the tools I've only used expanding foam once and that was to fix a punctured ring on my sons paddling pool, can no one be bothered to mix up a bit of compo or plaster anymore!
Expanding foam and silicone are a quick bodge it fix that every trade uses instead of doing the job correctly, especially when the houses are being air tested its easier to squirt foam or silicone to seal skirting boards and walls.
You may find the design of the door frame and hinges coupled with the block work being to far in front. The plasterer may have no choice but to dot the plasterboard tight to the hinges. As for the skimming, bad. If you pay peanuts you get monkeys...
See it far to often these day’s I’m a site painter and take some pride in my work but 90 percent on site are Eastern Europe labour who before arriving in our once great land were potato farmers and toilet cleaners now they are fully qualified time served tradesmen
Two of the worst building practices are the use of, A. expanding foam, and B. silicon sealant. What on earth did the builders of the past do when neither of these materials were available. I'll tell you, they did it right, not make it right.
I fully agree, There was no such thing as expanding foam when I served my time. IUt has now become the go-to get out of jail material for bodging up jobs.
Any tradesman that’s any good works for their self and definitely does not do site bashing. Most trades on large sites couldn’t give a crap about customer satisfaction.
Thats unfair to the majority of tradesmen on sites they do have pride in their work, when you see bad brickwork you can guarantee its been done by brick barons who employ cheap rubbish bricklayers, brick barons are brought on site to get the plots up quickly by the housebuilding company and standards are ignored for profit.
Bring in the built environment some of these issues can be pointed during the design phase. Poor coordination with the MEP contractor and the architect has led to some of these ‘sub standard’ (if you can even call it that) homes. It’s all about rush the design and built to generate cash flow. Truly depressing this is, although enjoying your content.
They shouldn’t get the full balance from the solicitors until the jobs done properly and then there would be no snags. It wouldn’t happen anywhere else you would never drive away in a new car in the condition of some of these homes, they get away with it and we let them if they had any pride Ian you would be out of a job but somehow I don’t think you would mind if people stopped getting ripped off by these Gangsters. They are not Tradesmen just badgers.
Gangsters are right they keep ripping people off with their disgraceful shoddy houses, I would welcome them putting me out of business knowing new build house buyers are getting a good house would feel like all this work has had an impact. Solicitors and mortgage lenders should hold back up to 30% of the value until all the defects are done within the 2-year warranty period. That would really make developers drill down on their subcontractor's, the quality of newly built houses would increase overnight.
Don't know about Roy Rogers more like Trigger! House builders no standards the people that threw the places together are not trades people by any standard.
Never buy new build they are so bad, and as for people saying he is picky you must be mad. When you buy something new you expect top quality. Not a house that looks as if it's 100 years old where people have done their own DIY jobs. Shocking doesn't even cut mustard. Crap is a better word.
When I made the mistake of buying a new build I told the developer not to rush the finish and that I was happy to wait a bit longer for completion. I said I'd rather not have loads of snagging to chase once I move in, but all they were fixated on was completion and getting paid. I tried telling them I wanted to inspect the property for issues before I completed purchase, but they wouldn't allow me in to the property on "health and safety" grounds until I'd completed - some BS about it being on an active construction site! They forgot when they let me walk around the actual construction site originally when they were trying to sell me the idea, but they wouldn't budge. Stupidly, I gave in and completed. Then I had 3 years of ongoing hassle with the site manager trying to get 101 problems sorted. All of my new neighbours had the same experience. I only went new build because at that time help to buy was only available for new homes. Never again.
Hope things are settled for you now mate and you're doing good in your home. I'm hooked on these vids and binge watching. Proper eye openers...
I am sorry you had this experience, unfortunately, you are not alone in how you have been treated by the builder. I am continuously advising my customers long after I have completed their inspection on how to deal with their builder to get the snags done that I have identified. Hopefully, this might be changing with the New Home Ombudsman and the New Homes Quality Board which should be live this year. this is no consolation to yourself but should help future new-build home buyers.
Keep them coming 👌👌 I can’t believe these are actually new builds
Can't believe?..
You need to spend a few weeks on new build sites, it'll open your eyes that's for sure.
If the house builders were not to receive their payment until all bodge ups have been put right , then it might be a different story , also the government should intervene and fine the persistent offenders and directors of the companies
New build quality has been in decline for some time now, the only new build I bought 25 years ago had some blatant, appalling defects. Who inspects & signs these off, Stevie Wonder? Put me off buying new builds for life.
So glad I opted to buy a 1911 house over a new build. It is still costing us an arm and a leg to renovate, but it’ll be done right. 👍🏻
An era where things were built to last, by people who took pride in their work and trade, in a time where there was a thing known as respect...
I'm glad I live in a 1920s house. Oldest I've lived in was 1860s and it was amazing. The site guy, whatever you want to call him, who was behind these houses moved into one himself and lived in it until he died. That's what you call seeing work through to completion. Doubt anyone involved with these new builds now would set foot anywhere near them after they've been paid.
Clearly this industry needs a shake up.
I've recently discovered your channel and the most common word I'm, quite rightly hearing, is "shocking".
All these issues your exposing are shocking and should never have passed inspection; I'm assuming there are back-handers going on by these building companies to the inspection companies. They're so eager to get these homes built and people in and they're cutting corners to do that, which is unacceptable.
I assume the painters are on a set price per house which you would expect to require minimal filling in places or a light rub on the plaster here and there but the quality of that plastering is absolutely horrendous and looks like it was fired on with a catapult.
What’s new turd polishing and this fella gets about five a day for pulling it which should all pulled by an agent /finishing foreman while this fella creams it
The thing is will it ever get any better!! Absolutely shocking!!!
Its the costs and lack of good trades
Absolutely Shocking
Jointing compounds used like confetti nowadays. Terrible finishing.
What your seeing hear are cosmetic finishes , I worked for 4 decades in the house building industry and some of the things I witnessed would frighten you away from ever buying a new build house. I've seen foundations that are nothing more than rubble the builders have run out of concrete so they just build the foundation on the clay then backfill it so nobody can see it , floor slabs where the concrete hasn't been poured properly and the slab has cracked right through,instead of taking it up and doing it again they just filled in the crack with mortar to hide them this is happening all the time. I've seen roof trusses that were snapped and should have been replaced bodged up by nailing a piece of wood on them,these trusses are what hold your roof up, dangerous to say the least! I've seen load bearing internal walls built out of concrete blocks and the blocks have cracked the whole height of the wall and yet again they just bodge it up so the buyer doesn't see it. The builders are very clever at preventing the buyers from seeing the nightmares that they're paying for, quoting health and safety restrictions is a favourite trick.
I hope the Developer, NHBC etc are all held accountable for this utter disgrace!
Fat chance! The NHBC is NOT on the customers side
I think the NHBC is structural only.
I hate it when they don't add knock on to the hinge side of those doors, it should be standard but I came across that situation all the time, I used to survey and fit upvc and its not hard to get it right, mind you.... Its not hard to get most of those things right, a lack of pride/skill or maybe even both
Spot on Ian, it is not hard to get it right, and work like this should not be accepted by the site manager. Housebuilders are now procuring external doors with reduced casing width to alleviate this problem. That's the wrong thing to do as the plasterer will still dab his reveals to the hinges.
Keep up the good work highlighting the crap work being accepted by building companies
Darren glad you like the videos, I might start using crap instead of shocking.
Can I just say from a tradesmans point of view
Company come in price the job if it’s to high they don’t get it so they all come in low to undercut ,but there’s no money left on it to really care so it gets botched ,who’s to blame
House builder ,subcontractor or tradesman sent in
If a tradesamns to slow he gets kicked down the garden path
Contractors got no money on the job so why should he care
Housing developer stands there licking his lips and rubbing his hands together
Thanx to price work stemming back to the 80s
That’s price work for you,all these subcontractors are literally buying the work and passing the crap prices on to their work force, some of that plastering looks like it’s been put on with a knife and fork, stay away from new builds they are built cheap and nasty and sold at a very high premium
Not all, every site is different and some site managers make sure everything is right before signing the home off to the customer however other sites are not good hence the houses have problems. Old houses have many defects and snags aswell which the new owners only get to know of when they start living in their new purchased property and the problem there is you have to rectify them yourself, New builds have warranty.
I fully agree price work killed the industry and subcontractors are not interested or beaten into submission by the builders to reduce their prices and produce more houses. lack of a skilled workforce results in the poor quality of new builds.
I think every new build should record the names and trade of the people who work on it and it should be given to the new owner and stored on the land register. If the trades knew this was procedure they might not be inclined to leave jobs in this state?
That's a great idea, I don't think the house builders would do that, maybe they could put the director's name and address in the handover paperwork might make a difference.
I reckon 99% of all developer new builds are like this.. and also bear in mind this is the crap you can see
In 30 years on the tools I've only used expanding foam once and that was to fix a punctured ring on my sons paddling pool, can no one be bothered to mix up a bit of compo or plaster anymore!
Expanding foam and silicone are a quick bodge it fix that every trade uses instead of doing the job correctly, especially when the houses are being air tested its easier to squirt foam or silicone to seal skirting boards and walls.
Why do you not name and shame these builder's. People buy these houses and put their life savings into one. They expect a decent house.
You may find the design of the door frame and hinges coupled with the block work being to far in front.
The plasterer may have no choice but to dot the plasterboard tight to the hinges.
As for the skimming, bad.
If you pay peanuts you get monkeys...
I do not disagree however this happens far too often and the builder should alter the drawings to allow for this not to happen.
Name and shame? Who threw this up?
See it far to often these day’s
I’m a site painter and take some pride in my work but 90 percent on site are Eastern Europe labour who before arriving in our once great land were potato farmers and toilet cleaners now they are fully qualified time served tradesmen
Who signed off on these and people actually got paid for this work 😱
Two of the worst building practices are the use of, A. expanding foam, and B. silicon sealant. What on earth did the builders of the past do when neither of these materials were available. I'll tell you, they did it right, not make it right.
I fully agree, There was no such thing as expanding foam when I served my time. IUt has now become the go-to get out of jail material for bodging up jobs.
No conscience at all , the result of under pricing!!
I was shocked when I saw this video.
Any tradesman that’s any good works for their self and definitely does not do site bashing. Most trades on large sites couldn’t give a crap about customer satisfaction.
Thats unfair to the majority of tradesmen on sites they do have pride in their work, when you see bad brickwork you can guarantee its been done by brick barons who employ cheap rubbish bricklayers, brick barons are brought on site to get the plots up quickly by the housebuilding company and standards are ignored for profit.
Bring in the built environment some of these issues can be pointed during the design phase. Poor coordination with the MEP contractor and the architect has led to some of these ‘sub standard’ (if you can even call it that) homes. It’s all about rush the design and built to generate cash flow. Truly depressing this is, although enjoying your content.
I fully agree with you, it is depressing newly built houses are rushed and customers are expected to accept such poor quality.
They shouldn’t get the full balance from the solicitors until the jobs done properly and then there would be no snags. It wouldn’t happen anywhere else you would never drive away in a new car in the condition of some of these homes, they get away with it and we let them if they had any pride Ian you would be out of a job but somehow I don’t think you would mind if people stopped getting ripped off by these Gangsters. They are not Tradesmen just badgers.
Gangsters are right they keep ripping people off with their disgraceful shoddy houses, I would welcome them putting me out of business knowing new build house buyers are getting a good house would feel like all this work has had an impact. Solicitors and mortgage lenders should hold back up to 30% of the value until all the defects are done within the 2-year warranty period. That would really make developers drill down on their subcontractor's, the quality of newly built houses would increase overnight.
How the fk are these getting passed 😳😳😳
bloody hell
Don't know about Roy Rogers more like Trigger!
House builders no standards the people that threw the places together are not trades people by any standard.
Never buy new build they are so bad, and as for people saying he is picky you must be mad. When you buy something new you expect top quality. Not a house that looks as if it's 100 years old where people have done their own DIY jobs. Shocking doesn't even cut mustard. Crap is a better word.
Have you ever found a properly built new-build?
Let us know.
I will when I find one.
Disgusting workmanship !!!!
My wife occasionally nips my head she wants one of these. Few of these videos ought to shut her up.
Houses designed to last 20/25 years.
Call themselves tradesmen.
Butcher's I'd say.
😱
that is some lazy bollox work FFS
Any one can pick someone else’s work apart. What are you doing about it?????
As much as I can by bringing shoddy work to light, what are you doing about it?
@@LivelyProfessionalServices Maybe he's one of the ones providing you with work? 😉