I used to work for a firm that did the "hand over cleans" I.E. the final clean/inspection before the new owners move in, our job was to hide things, camouflage faults, and disguise defects, the faults you can see are bad but the ones you cant see are far worse, roofs not tied to walls, missing wall and ceiling cavity insulation, fire breaks not intact, extractor fans not extracting to the outside was very common, no wonder they are cold and expensive to run, they are open to the elements. by the time we got on site all the trades had moved on to new sites so it was down to us labourers to make things look OK, basically hide all the faults,
The law it should be next to the custumer and should defend the rights of the buyer and force the development company to refund 30,40% from the value of the house and to fix it aswell.
@@christinedavis5813 it means sweeping it out and cleaning that’s as rigorous as it gets. I have had many years on new house sites and stopped it due to shocking practices. It was never how can we fix mistakes it was how can we hide them.
The building stand in UK is shocking,and yet when a lot of bits come abroad they have the cheek to complain about standards,in Mediterranean countries standard is much higher
@@ΑντωνηςΜανωλαγκας Well when I stayed in hotels in Crete and Cyprus you had to place toilet paper in a separate bin which is not exactly modern or hygenic.
Another classic example of why you should never buy a new build house. People say they want cheap affordable housing. Well I can tell you no developer is ever going to sacrifice their own profits. They will cut corners wherever they can and use the cheapest of materials they can get their hands on. It used to be that newbuilds had a 100 year guarantee. Newbuild no only come with a 25 year guarantee. If you want cheap trust me they are going to give you cheap. I would never ever buy a new build house these days they are riddled with problems and it will cost a lot of money each year to put right. When buying your house I wouldn’t bother looking at any house that has been built from the 1990s onwards. I would look at buying an older property. Yes they may need some work but it will save you so much money in the long run as these houses are built to last. My house was built in 1880.
Ontop of the fact they a lot of the time will sell leasehold these days, which they brand,disguise and manipulate inw ords and display as a purchase of property, when it's literally just a rent on paper for a set period.
Believe it or not, but some people don’t have a choice these days. With shared ownership or help to buy a new property the ONLY realistic option. Well... either that or pay high rent for the rest of our lives.
@@Sanmiguel801it's a good step up even if it is shared ownership. You can eventually buy the full ownership.... I started off buying a tiny 1 bedroom flat....4 years later I managed to sell up and buy a frehlehold house. Just takes time! But ANYTHING is better than renting
Live, or should I say not live in an 80s Barratt flat.. Really good if you like listening to other neighbours at all hours using the toilet, footsteps, stomping around, slamming doors, sudden loud thuds etc etc... Also perfect for the winter. The cheap timber frame walls really do let the heat escape which ensures you pay WAY more for the heating bills. You'd probably get a much better quality of life living in a prison. Whoever is responsible for building these needs to hope that hell doesn't exist when their time comes... Still cannot believe they and other companies get away with this ..
I work for a company that paints and cleans the outside of houses, everything from the render to the uPVC windows and gutters. We do a lot of work on the new builds here in North Manchester, the ones that have literally been thrown up in the last two years. The majority of these homeowners complain about draughts throughout the house, and its not uncommon to find no seals around the uPVC window frames or missing mastic seal on brickwork. We find a lot of false airbricks, smoke extractors with no outside cover. And the worst, render that does not extend from the wall to the roof facia, gaps of between MM's or even inches, enough to let in draughts, water and insects.
What about the cladding which caused so much harm in London? .How do they get away with it.Nobody ever goes to prison allowing this to happen. The biggest criminals live outside prisons.
Building regs are being ingnored this moving people into houses before the snagging list is done and signed off by THE SITE MANAGER and THE CLERK OF THE WORKS is a disgrace it’s all about greed by a consortium of money investors who have put their money in and struggle to want their money back as the wife needs a new 4x4 , this inspection should say that the property is not safe and the Builders should put the owners in a hotel until rectified , this disgraceful work is down to the site manager who has passed an SMSTS Course on Health and Safety where you will be given the answers by an inept instructor my advise to all who want to buy is do not buy new buy older well built houses , what we have here is negligence which will end up families in danger ⚠️ nuff said
This test should have been done prior to building sign off, to allow it to be signed off by building control. Why was it not done at the time? How did the builder get away without it being done?
As the video mentions, Dot and dab boards should be fixed with a continuous run of adhesive at the top and bottom of the board, then usual dabs at regular intervals. This prevents draughts, but it also served to slow or stop the spread of smoke and fire.
All I can say stay away from David Wilson home in Nantwich ( it’s been lies after lies and staff lie to you staff ( aftercare service) see you in court
What is it with British people and their penchant for dull, stuffy, uninspiring house designs? Why just a square box divided into smaller square boxes? Yuck. And this guy probably spent some unimaginable amount of money for that place. Add some angles, some curves, don't be so uptight. :)
Because you can fit more square houses together on a plot of land than you can with houses that have angles and curves. Houses in the UK cost a lot and there's not enough for how many people there are. So obviously that means rows of boring square houses, efficiently plotted onto the given land to maximise the space whilst not becoming overly expensive for the average buyer.
@@liiisajarviiis I hear you, but I live in Florida where they manage to squeeze thousands of houses into subdivisions that really don't occupy that much raw land. In most cases your neighbors are close enough that they can tell what you had for lunch, and they still manage to add some visual interest to them. Even what we call "townhouses" (I guess the equivalent of council flats in the UK, but not related in any way to government subsidies) can be long rows, essentially a giant rectangle, but each individual unit might still have vaulted ceilings, lofts, skylights, some angles to the kitchen, a nice curved staircase...they come up with ingenious ways to make them nice to look at. Even the new places in the UK (I don't live there, I only see what I see through media) are just squares divided into smaller squares. Maybe it's some attempt to maintain the absolute maximum square footage numbers? I'd give up some space for character.
@Jack Jones You're right about that, we love our cheap shit. That's really the issue, as i'm sure you know, everyone here wants grandiose curb appeal instead of small and modest quality. But even a 200 sq ft tiny home can be interesting. I was more giving you guys a hard time. We do have good quality homes here too though, it's just that no one can afford them. Haha :) We have a lot of mobile homes here too, and those really are chewing gum and toothpicks.
we were going. to buy a 4 bedroom persimmon but from our research, it is just pure trash we decided to buy an older house wich on the inside is better than persimmon homes and the rooms are so nice especially the kitchen the whole house was nicer and appealing than the
Phil is a nut. He wants his house to be perfect. Every house, condo, apartment I've lived in has never been perfect. There are always some issues. No house is ever perfect. Those inspectors will point out every problem.
@@sassythesasquatch1776 its still not perfect. you need to learn about contract law. Nothing is perfect. There is a standard that needs to be met but it is never perfect.
I used to work for a firm that did the "hand over cleans" I.E. the final clean/inspection before the new owners move in, our job was to hide things, camouflage faults, and disguise defects, the faults you can see are bad but the ones you cant see are far worse, roofs not tied to walls, missing wall and ceiling cavity insulation, fire breaks not intact, extractor fans not extracting to the outside was very common, no wonder they are cold and expensive to run, they are open to the elements. by the time we got on site all the trades had moved on to new sites so it was down to us labourers to make things look OK, basically hide all the faults,
The law it should be next to the custumer and should defend the rights of the buyer and force the development company to refund 30,40% from the value of the house and to fix it aswell.
New homes have a rigorous sign off policy, ha ha ha ha
Can I Add HA HA HA to yours @PNH63
@@christinedavis5813 it means sweeping it out and cleaning that’s as rigorous as it gets. I have had many years on new house sites and stopped it due to shocking practices. It was never how can we fix mistakes it was how can we hide them.
Only when the brown envelope has changed hands does anything get signed off. Very rigorous and hard to meet standards.
Sign off hahahaha 6yr can sign off
The building stand in UK is shocking,and yet when a lot of bits come abroad they have the cheek to complain about standards,in Mediterranean countries standard is much higher
No you cant say that when places like Greece don't allow you to flush toilet paper down a WC pan.
@@Elfin4 not true,only in older properties due to piping,you obviously know nothing about building standards in my country
@@ΑντωνηςΜανωλαγκας Well when I stayed in hotels in Crete and Cyprus you had to place toilet paper in a separate bin which is not exactly modern or hygenic.
Another classic example of why you should never buy a new build house. People say they want cheap affordable housing. Well I can tell you no developer is ever going to sacrifice their own profits. They will cut corners wherever they can and use the cheapest of materials they can get their hands on. It used to be that newbuilds had a 100 year guarantee. Newbuild no only come with a 25 year guarantee. If you want cheap trust me they are going to give you cheap. I would never ever buy a new build house these days they are riddled with problems and it will cost a lot of money each year to put right. When buying your house I wouldn’t bother looking at any house that has been built from the 1990s onwards. I would look at buying an older property. Yes they may need some work but it will save you so much money in the long run as these houses are built to last. My house was built in 1880.
Ontop of the fact they a lot of the time will sell leasehold these days, which they brand,disguise and manipulate inw ords and display as a purchase of property, when it's literally just a rent on paper for a set period.
Believe it or not, but some people don’t have a choice these days. With shared ownership or help to buy a new property the ONLY realistic option. Well... either that or pay high rent for the rest of our lives.
@@Sanmiguel801 Sad truth :(
New builds never had a 100y guarantee normal is 10.
@@Sanmiguel801it's a good step up even if it is shared ownership. You can eventually buy the full ownership.... I started off buying a tiny 1 bedroom flat....4 years later I managed to sell up and buy a frehlehold house. Just takes time! But ANYTHING is better than renting
Live, or should I say not live in an 80s Barratt flat.. Really good if you like listening to other neighbours at all hours using the toilet, footsteps, stomping around, slamming doors, sudden loud thuds etc etc... Also perfect for the winter. The cheap timber frame walls really do let the heat escape which ensures you pay WAY more for the heating bills. You'd probably get a much better quality of life living in a prison. Whoever is responsible for building these needs to hope that hell doesn't exist when their time comes... Still cannot believe they and other companies get away with this ..
Good ol Barratt Homes🙄
I work for a company that paints and cleans the outside of houses, everything from the render to the uPVC windows and gutters. We do a lot of work on the new builds here in North Manchester, the ones that have literally been thrown up in the last two years. The majority of these homeowners complain about draughts throughout the house, and its not uncommon to find no seals around the uPVC window frames or missing mastic seal on brickwork. We find a lot of false airbricks, smoke extractors with no outside cover. And the worst, render that does not extend from the wall to the roof facia, gaps of between MM's or even inches, enough to let in draughts, water and insects.
What about the cladding which caused so much harm in London? .How do they get away with it.Nobody ever goes to prison allowing this to happen. The biggest criminals live outside prisons.
Never ever buy a box of air in the sky if that means buying further outside the city to buy something that includes the dirt..do it.
Looking at these properties in Colchester and the practices that I saw in houses in Sherford in Plymouth cracks in the foundation's floors
Nice to see the downpipe covering the expansion joint !! Not .
My God new houses, and look at the clip of them squashed together
buy a house that was built when passion and pride was standard
Building regs are being ingnored this moving people into houses before the snagging list is done and signed off by THE SITE MANAGER and THE CLERK OF THE WORKS is a disgrace it’s all about greed by a consortium of money investors who have put their money in and struggle to want their money back as the wife needs a new 4x4 , this inspection should say that the property is not safe and the Builders should put the owners in a hotel until rectified , this disgraceful work is down to the site manager who has passed an SMSTS Course on Health and Safety where you will be given the answers by an inept instructor my advise to all who want to buy is do not buy new buy older well built houses , what we have here is negligence which will end up families in danger ⚠️ nuff said
Its all the sub contracting. They do not employ trades so no employment costs. Bogus employment. No investment in skills and apprenticeships .
That’s bollocks mate
@@PiOfficial So what is CIS
No Clark of works
It’s just build build build with cheap labour
We never had this problem 20 years ago
This test should have been done prior to building sign off, to allow it to be signed off by building control. Why was it not done at the time? How did the builder get away without it being done?
Should follow building guidelines, there's the problem. Guidelines are generally not legally enforceable and should is optional.
Plaster board is dot n dabbed on its always going to have a gap behind it 🤣
Any new build I've been in has been, how to put it. S#&t.
Bought a new Warwick house from Barratt four years ago...best house I’ve ever lived in...all snagging completed without delay.
Cavanna make poor quality homes. I lived in one for 3 years. Never buy one.
So how do you want to attach plaster board to the wall? Not using adhesive? I am confused...
shit it on
As the video mentions, Dot and dab boards should be fixed with a continuous run of adhesive at the top and bottom of the board, then usual dabs at regular intervals. This prevents draughts, but it also served to slow or stop the spread of smoke and fire.
Using screws mate
Smoke tests are done before you move in. This shouldnt happen.
Home Building Federation - are these funded by the developers?
This program refers to guidelines and regulations interchangeably.
and
Oh no their house is cold in winter
All I can say stay away from David Wilson home in Nantwich ( it’s been lies after lies and staff lie to you staff ( aftercare service) see you in court
Good old wimpey homes!!!😂
What is it with British people and their penchant for dull, stuffy, uninspiring house designs? Why just a square box divided into smaller square boxes? Yuck. And this guy probably spent some unimaginable amount of money for that place. Add some angles, some curves, don't be so uptight. :)
Because you can fit more square houses together on a plot of land than you can with houses that have angles and curves. Houses in the UK cost a lot and there's not enough for how many people there are. So obviously that means rows of boring square houses, efficiently plotted onto the given land to maximise the space whilst not becoming overly expensive for the average buyer.
@@liiisajarviiis I hear you, but I live in Florida where they manage to squeeze thousands of houses into subdivisions that really don't occupy that much raw land. In most cases your neighbors are close enough that they can tell what you had for lunch, and they still manage to add some visual interest to them. Even what we call "townhouses" (I guess the equivalent of council flats in the UK, but not related in any way to government subsidies) can be long rows, essentially a giant rectangle, but each individual unit might still have vaulted ceilings, lofts, skylights, some angles to the kitchen, a nice curved staircase...they come up with ingenious ways to make them nice to look at. Even the new places in the UK (I don't live there, I only see what I see through media) are just squares divided into smaller squares. Maybe it's some attempt to maintain the absolute maximum square footage numbers? I'd give up some space for character.
We are an over populated Island, simple as that I guess.
@Jack Jones You're right about that, we love our cheap shit. That's really the issue, as i'm sure you know, everyone here wants grandiose curb appeal instead of small and modest quality. But even a 200 sq ft tiny home can be interesting. I was more giving you guys a hard time. We do have good quality homes here too though, it's just that no one can afford them. Haha :) We have a lot of mobile homes here too, and those really are chewing gum and toothpicks.
What developer was this?
I'd love to know too :/
Persimmon
we were going. to buy a 4 bedroom persimmon but from our research, it is just pure trash we decided to buy an older house wich on the inside is better than persimmon homes and the rooms are so nice especially the kitchen the whole house was nicer and appealing than the
kobby kobby yes old houses are probably better quality. I personally love new builds, but I would not buy a persimmon home.
@@kobbykobby1984 Yeah Persimmon are down near the bottom of the list tbh, very cheaply made houses
All new builds are basically crap,thrown up cheapest materials, and dog rough workmanship
Phil is a nut. He wants his house to be perfect. Every house, condo, apartment I've lived in has never been perfect. There are always some issues. No house is ever perfect. Those inspectors will point out every problem.
if u paid for new build then u want perfect not half baked.
@@sassythesasquatch1776 its still not perfect. you need to learn about contract law. Nothing is perfect. There is a standard that needs to be met but it is never perfect.
@@ducheau100 Well it should be aimed for
@@ducheau100got a guy here attempting to defend shoddy workmanship 😂😂😂