What's sad about so many of your videos is that people are already living on many of those properties. If only this could be caught and rectified before completion, until that happens every time, this problem is not going to go away.
Had a house that was built in 1898. Every wall, floor, lintel and door frame was plum straight. How many of these cardboard boxes they build now will still be standing in 120+ years?
You must be lucky. My victorian house had everywall out of plumb, some up to 3 inches over a 2m span, rot everywhere etc... Not saying new houses are better, but old houses have their issues and aren't all sunshine and rainbows 😂
I think I recognize the grouting work shown in this video that was double stuffed. That grouter worked on my house in South Africa and gave me the ocean waves top to my tile work in the bathrooms. These videos make me feel less alone, so thank you OP.
Saw a survey the other day that made me think of this channel. over half of brits would prefer an old build home over a new build. the opposite of how reality should be
Prefer an old home ? In its original condition ? Dont make me laugh. People only say they want an old home so long as its been totally renovated and modernised as a brand new home inside with the fancy kitchen, bathroom, everything perfect and beautiful to show off on social media no doubt. Wow.
@@oddities-whatnotI don't think people are suggesting they want a Victorian house with a tin bath and an outside toilet. I think it's more that people prefer a house that might last over 50 years, rather than these bland, poorly built, overpriced new builds.
I would suggest that first time buyers to really think about buying a new house over an older one. Currently renovating a house built in 1920 and it is an absolute nightmare. Yes new houses have their issues, but, out of plumb wallls and incorrectly installed winndows etc... are a lot easier to solve than replacing all of the old wooden lintels cause they're rotten for example.
Like everything in this world .Backwards. If the companies all chip in to receive inspections from NHBC then in reality they are policing themselves . Everything is supposed to be independent but if you dig a little deeper into things you see through the deception. Just take the police , if you ve a complaint it goes to the IOPC which is set up as an independent body. Guess what ? Its staff are mainly ex policemen. This goes with banks/ courts in fact everything. The truth is starting to Come out, hold onto your hat as it will break people’s hearts .
@@cheds1 and the corruption on building sites is off the charts. You want to get the contract for building a david wilson site, expect to take the management for a jolly at the golf course while you discuss how big a cash payment you'll give them to get the contract. This is a fact, i know it because I work as a builder on house bashing sites. It stinks and they keep getting away with it.
I'm in the States (Arizona), and the local municipality or county inspector will approve dangerous electrical panels and damaged roof trusses, among other things.
@@cheds1 spot on - the emperor has no clothes. Building inspectors sign off properties as meeting building regulations. What happens if it's later confirmed that the property does not meet building regulations? Answer: the build inspector has no liability (despite signing it off), instead the home owner is liable. Must be nice to get paid for (not really) doing a job and then avoiding all responsibility...
I've had houses from many era's - the ones from the 80's were the most shoddy, the 70's was nice after the rewire, replumb and the asbestos removed (at least it had floorboards), the 1850's was solid as a rock but incurably damp, the current new build may have many of the shonky traits we see here but its lovely and warm..
It all starts at college, poor discipline, work ethic, manners and behaviour. They mostly all go onto the big lego building sites and this is what you get. Just quantity, no quality of workmanship.
This all stsrted in the 70s. My mum and dad had a new council house, and it had its faults. Warm air heating with the boiler located in the middle of the house. One night it decided to self combust. Luckily my dad was up making tea so was able to shut off the gas. The windows were shite with draughts everywhere. And the bath was badly fitted. So the old boys who constructed that house have taught their skils to others and this is where we are today!
Loved the reels on Facebook, how we get the best of videos, Love it! My fav was redrow building a new estate on a backfilled quarry pond then wondering why all the houses had to be rebuilt due to subsidence.
Imagine these issues when picking up a brand new car. You would well them to Foxtrot Oscar. Why is this acceptable as "snags" on new builds is beyond belief..
Built in a day with 6 trades people falling over everyone. Plastered on a Wednesday bathroom getting tiled on Thursday..When will you be done...Site work is for mugs..
66 yr old decorator, worked on 3 Bellway sites the last few years, I don't work for them now, but I was very impressed with the fit and finish and overall quality, PS worked for others as well, not so impressive
I don't know if they still do but when I bought my first house it was brand new and we had to exchange contract before it was finished, the rules should be you exchange once the house is done and you are happy. My first house was built by Barrett, several days after moving in we had a storm and the front window fell out, they didn't screw it to the brickwork, always remember that
After I dragged my son kicking and screaming through a carpentry apprenticeship & then into management , it is now with total amusement I hear him telling me the same stories I told him about with regards to snagging work done under piss poor management and special needs contractors. The sheer lack of visual common sense can be astounding at times.
Developer: Not sure what the problem is. It's a house isn't it? What scares me is, if these are the "ridiculous" problems you can see, what about the stuff you can't - 10mm foundations? unanchored wall plates? unfixed staircase stringers? no electrode conductor?
Few years back I lived in a recently built house. I thought it was too cold and too hot for a recent build. After I sold up I saw a house on the same street having cavity wall insulation injected. Answered my question.
my place is 1850, the landlord had it 'refurbished' 8 years ago. The door hinges are T's, some fitted to the ledges some fixed into the boards, to do this the original screws were hand cut to suit, so whenever I painted the place I took the furniture off, pushed the screws into polystyrene in position and then refitted them in the original holes.....Yup, you guessed it, the builder's muppet 'decorator' lost the screws so fitted Philips instead. First thing I did when I moved back was to rip my hand open on the points protruding through some of the doors. I complained so they wound the screws back so the points were recessed but the handles and hinges are loose. you couldn't make it up, and this is a national charity who are supposed to care for historic buildings......! That's just one problem, I could fill the comment section with dodgy work, like the 13 amp fuse running the immersion heater, that couldn't handle the boost function and no electrician has been able to understand what is going on so there's no immersion heater.
@@JrHartley-kt3wi sure are. I'm getting on a bit now at 63 but I just plastered a ceiling on my sons job we were putting cornice around. It's that wide, Victorian style coving so the ceiling needed to be level but it was all over the place. I tacked it then floated it in bonding, putting on in layers and allowing each layer to dry to keep the weight down, until it was flat, then set it. Because it took 4 days to get done they got some youngsters in for the other two ceilings, they are big 17ftx20ft. They plasterboarded the ceiling with four fixings per joist. I asked if that was enough. 'Of course' said the lad. they put 50mm of wet bonding on, then set it all on the same day and the ceiling came down on them and put two of them in hospital. I spent years plasterers labouring, watching and learning, you have to consider the possible outcomes when doing unusual jobs and overbuild if you're not sure.
Jerry (builders) PLC. Want a new build? Look for a small development by a well established local buiiding firm with a good reputation. Hurry whilst there are still some left.
I've seen entire apartment blocks have to have new roofs fitted after about 5 years because the original roof has started to collapse. The best thing was when I saw a developer build a new housing estate on marshland that's constantly flooding and moving about. Those houses will sink in a couple years and the whole estate will have to be demolished.
Our home "Down Under" was built in the mid 1970's and was the original show home. Dead plumb walls, perfectly laid brickwork, and the Western Red Cedar sash windows still look good, and are pretty water-tight. Fast forward to the 2000's and we have "builders" paying off people's mortgages since the homes will need demolition and re-building, exterior walls collapsing owing to subsidence (incorrectly installed swimming pool by the Builder!), and a continuous torrent of TH-cam Building Inspection disasters. Nowadays, you pay a fortune for a mass-designed, thrown together "house", and when you try to approach the builders, well, they've disappeared (and set up shop under another name and Business Registration). Terrible situation.
the last house i ever built as a brickie was the last straw for me, the company had ordered window lintels that were far to short, i told them about it and the site agent insisted i put them in anyway (only a 10mm seat on each end ! should be 150mm each end) that was the day i retired my trowel and looked for another career, that was about 27 years ago so i can only imagine how much worse it is now with the quality of these so called tradesmen, i'd never buy a new built house ! give me an old twin wall traditional brick built structure any day of the week
Cowboy building companies employing cowboy tradesmen who have no pride in their workmanship. Suggests an attitude of just get it done, collect the money and move on to the next job.
Noel posts! Mate Ive fitted these level even in my own house and as they dry out more they can twist out of level. Its a nightmare. They dont take enough moisture out of timber anymore as it costs more money. What do you do? Fit another and it can happen again?
It depends what you are referring to. If it's external brickwork, they'll have to take it down and rebuild it. If it's internal block wall, they can replaster it straight, and If it's an internal stud wall they can take of the plasterboard and add timber slivers or firrings to correct the studs before putting on new plasterboard. Professional Joiner here, that was also employed to correct most aspects of snagging, due to my perfectionist nature.
If I ever win the lottery, I will fund myself and my family clan through college and learn how to build our own dream house. Either that or I will be taking a spirit level to every viewing! 😂
Just make certain they're taking you round the exact property, not the show house. You can be sure they finished that one absolutely perfectly no matter the condition of every other property.
These developers force thier rates down so low (max profit/shareholders happy) that any subbie firm who takes on their contracts cant afford quality tradesman working for them if they want to make any money. It really is a case of pay peanuts, get monkey's. All the decent tradesman i know wouldnt even consider working on new builds given the rates and cowboys you'd be working with.
If he does then he will face a lot of copyright infringements claims, his videos will be taking down, it will cost at lot of time to fight these claims, some he may win, others he may loose, is it worth it? And that is just the fighting with TH-cam, then wait for the letters he will get from solicitors, lot of time to spend there too. Remember that all stated in these videos may be 100% correct, but some out there do not like their name to be associated with shitty work, and solicitors makes a lot of money by agreeing with people feeling offended.
@@K2teknik. nonsense. People post bad reviews about different kind of products all the time. And it certainly doesn't have anything to do with copyright as no content was copied.
@@dmitriis4075 YT do not care about the substance in a copyright infringements claim, they take it "as is", so if somebody what to make noise then a copyright infringements claim is a good tool, remember that is fully automated on YT side, no human is reading the claims it is just taken for granted, it is up to the contain creator to do the lifting/fighting even for a false claim.
@@K2teknik. They should have some kind of automatic system that detects similar video or audio. They can't just agree with every claim someone submitted, otherwise anyone could abuse the shit out of the system complaining about every video just to prove the point. In this particular case it would be really odd as these companies don't produce any audio or video content. Mentioning someone's brand name is not an infringement as long as you don't claim ownership of that name. They may not like you mentioning their name, that's true, but we still had freedom of speech. You can't just sue everyone who doesn't like you
I wouldn’t buy a new build 30 years ago because of my survey’s report. I did not trust the well known building company that’s still around today. My survey came up with 85 snagging points from windows not properly fixed to the building they had just four screws holding the frame in. To the water pipes not sealed in the attic so they were leaking.
retired sick from site after 20 years, no damaged bricks went down on my lifts, but unfortunately the next generations attitude is often 'well, it ain't my house' which is wearing when you care about the quality of the job. brick damage usually little machine driver accidents
I'm looking to self build a simple lean-to conservatory. I've spoken to local building officials and they've stressed the need for good quality. I'm sure I can do better than any of these new builds, on my first time effort. You have to name and shame those cowboys !
I built a garden room and learned how to do it from watching you tube builders. I know that I built it much better than these houses and I’m an old granny lol.
Thats the problem we gotta face if every house only has 1 Worker and he gets 1 Week of time. I work in Construction and even i can say, if we finish some apartments I wouldn't pay a penny for those. A project that usually takes 3 years, should now be done in 10 months, with half the people. I dont know where we are heading.
When you find walls that are out more than 8 mm, what are the builders meant to do? I can't imagine they will agree to knocking them down, so is it simply the new owners have to accept the issue, or is there some way to rectify this? Maybe there's something they could do about internal walls, but external walls, that's a much bigger issue.
Quite a few years ago my apprentice told me that at college they were told that they could build a corner 8mm out of plumb. I was quite surprised, Back in the day if you built to those tolerances you would notice the clerk of works having a chat with the foreman discussing your future.
You know, a lot of things being out of plumb when they are finished are more of an inspector problem. Yea they should have built it properly but it wouldnt get that far along if the inspector didn't fail to do their job in the first place and fail the inspection on the rough.
I'm renting a small one and it's like it's been built by a group of kids that think there builders because they are good at lego. Its shocking. Like cardboard houses. Hope we dont get floods or were done for 😮
Horrendous examples on display here,but beat this on one Barratt Detached House built in 1976-Lightswitch reversed,Sollum not completely waterproofed,Creaking stairway,Rain entering through Window Edges in stormy weather,Cement bags stuffed into Picture Window slapping as base for fixing, Sewerage pipe connected to neighbour's system,Lounge not near rectangular but irregular in shape,Freshwater pipe only buried 10" deep freezing often in winter,Manhole too close to foundations making house tilt slightly forwardplus despite many requests the S.Agent and GF never addressed our complaints so we went to Laurie Barratt's HQ in Newcastle got to his PA within an hour SA/GF were at our house.Eventually the GF an alcoholic was blamed and sacked.
Nothing like a 5 year apprenticeship anymore where doing the job right is drilled into you everyday until you can't forget what your taught. 40+ years in a trade and still remember well whats not acceptable
No supervision over the work , site managers that have no knowledge of the building. Somthing about eastern europe quality , and no apprentices learning from the oldboys as it used to be. Now retired but served the construction industry all my life.How the hell can you learn plumbing eletrical carpentary and brickwork in a warm classroom.
It's not only the workforce, the company that took over our contract and pushed us out was staffed with nippers who'd only just completed their "apprenticeship" which was around 5 months with a plumber and around 6/7 months in a classroom. During the transition period we were able to see their work and it was appalling but they were cheaper than us. How they got their gas, unvented cylinder and other certificates is a mystery.
@@newhomequalitycontrol there's a massive lack of competent trades people in the UK these days, just get a site card and some tools and just about anyone can be a carpenter, brick layer etc, cheap labour using boat people, this needs sorting out rapidly.
Most houses become slums eventually. Todays victorian houses that still stand is only because they have been renovated and modernised over many decades. If left in their original state they would not be fit to live in. Why cant people understand this.
@@oddities-whatnot Victorian houses had the wherewithall to stand for 100 years, I know I have had two, when it came time to modernize, the buildings were well capable of accepting some drastic action but without total demolition. The two houses that I had needed returning to their original design as far as could be achieved.The cellars and floor joists were as good as the Victorian builders had left them. Building fabric completely worth restoring and handing on. There are no building, plumbing or electrical apprenticeships worth anything now as the so called 'old school' has retired or died. I started my apprenticeship aged 15 in 1969, my time served as an industrial plumber was worth all my 50 years of giving to the trade. Love to all my fellow teachers tradesmen and the men who made sure that you 'knew'. including all those who are living and those who have passed.
They Come with a 10 Year Warranty.........My Builder Does not Really think that they need to make good, under warranty for Faults and ongoing issue, what little they do Gets Termed..."A Gesture of Goodwill" , or get offered a Low Figure of Money ( Insulting...Refused) to make Good their Faiilings ,Kind of a DIY situation, to make Good for the Builders Lack of Compliance to the Warranty
it's getting better then lol. Too many low paid slave workers involved in the trades while the big companies make a fortune. I wish it wasn't so but as someone that works on house bashing sites, you get to see what is really going on.
Not homes, but sheds with attitude! 1.5 million more about to be built!
The affordable homes initiative - affordable for the developer that is.
The meringue under the sink is your finest discovery yet 😂
yeah, that was a new one in your repetoire. cool.
I always thought my own diy mastic skills were poor. Turns out I’m up there with the best
Feels like a game of how much can we get away with
And the moral of the story.. Don't pay a penny for a new build until you've had it inspected by an independent surveyor..
Bananarama, tuna melt, winklespanner, apocalypse finish, loosey goosey, absolute shocking, rickdiculous, bobby dangler, shock-a-lock lockete, cheeky omelette. Brillant!
Dedication right here 👆❤️
Omg the mum voiceover had me rolling 😂😂😂
What's sad about so many of your videos is that people are already living on many of those properties.
If only this could be caught and rectified before completion, until that happens every time, this problem is not going to go away.
Had a house that was built in 1898. Every wall, floor, lintel and door frame was plum straight. How many of these cardboard boxes they build now will still be standing in 120+ years?
You can leave off the 0. And the question is still valid.
I had a house built in 1895. Poor sound insulation, crooked walls, sloping floor joists. Rose tinted specs much ?
You must be lucky. My victorian house had everywall out of plumb, some up to 3 inches over a 2m span, rot everywhere etc... Not saying new houses are better, but old houses have their issues and aren't all sunshine and rainbows 😂
@@oddities-whatnot Guarantee the materials used are light years better though. Houses then were built to last, can't say the same today
Now I’m no perfectionist but even I couldn’t leave jobs like these.
I think I recognize the grouting work shown in this video that was double stuffed. That grouter worked on my house in South Africa and gave me the ocean waves top to my tile work in the bathrooms. These videos make me feel less alone, so thank you OP.
Saw a survey the other day that made me think of this channel. over half of brits would prefer an old build home over a new build. the opposite of how reality should be
Prefer an old home ? In its original condition ? Dont make me laugh. People only say they want an old home so long as its been totally renovated and modernised as a brand new home inside with the fancy kitchen, bathroom, everything perfect and beautiful to show off on social media no doubt. Wow.
@oddities-whatnot wow you're deluded 😳
@@oddities-whatnotI don't think people are suggesting they want a Victorian house with a tin bath and an outside toilet. I think it's more that people prefer a house that might last over 50 years, rather than these bland, poorly built, overpriced new builds.
I would suggest that first time buyers to really think about buying a new house over an older one. Currently renovating a house built in 1920 and it is an absolute nightmare. Yes new houses have their issues, but, out of plumb wallls and incorrectly installed winndows etc... are a lot easier to solve than replacing all of the old wooden lintels cause they're rotten for example.
@@oddities-whatnot😂you are so dumb
Always amazing to view. How do companies think they can get away with this?
Like everything in this world .Backwards. If the companies all chip in to receive inspections from NHBC then in reality they are policing themselves . Everything is supposed to be independent but if you dig a little deeper into things you see through the deception. Just take the police , if you ve a complaint it goes to the IOPC which is set up as an independent body. Guess what ? Its staff are mainly ex policemen. This goes with banks/ courts in fact everything. The truth is starting to Come out, hold onto your hat as it will break people’s hearts .
@@cheds1 and the corruption on building sites is off the charts. You want to get the contract for building a david wilson site, expect to take the management for a jolly at the golf course while you discuss how big a cash payment you'll give them to get the contract. This is a fact, i know it because I work as a builder on house bashing sites. It stinks and they keep getting away with it.
I'm in the States (Arizona), and the local municipality or county inspector will approve dangerous electrical panels and damaged roof trusses, among other things.
@@cheds1 spot on - the emperor has no clothes.
Building inspectors sign off properties as meeting building regulations.
What happens if it's later confirmed that the property does not meet building regulations?
Answer: the build inspector has no liability (despite signing it off), instead the home owner is liable.
Must be nice to get paid for (not really) doing a job and then avoiding all responsibility...
What do you expect for half a million quid, and an unskilled workforce ? Perfection ? 😂
I'd love to hear a video which took an inspection and then showed what remediation was undertaken.
Glad your back again in top form
I've had houses from many era's - the ones from the 80's were the most shoddy, the 70's was nice after the rewire, replumb and the asbestos removed (at least it had floorboards), the 1850's was solid as a rock but incurably damp, the current new build may have many of the shonky traits we see here but its lovely and warm..
It all starts at college, poor discipline, work ethic, manners and behaviour. They mostly all go onto the big lego building sites and this is what you get. Just quantity, no quality of workmanship.
Yes let's blame young people and not capitalism
@@dominicparker6124 Yeah those big 1000 flat apartment blocks they have in russia from the soviet era are sublime
This all stsrted in the 70s. My mum and dad had a new council house, and it had its faults. Warm air heating with the boiler located in the middle of the house. One night it decided to self combust. Luckily my dad was up making tea so was able to shut off the gas. The windows were shite with draughts everywhere. And the bath was badly fitted. So the old boys who constructed that house have taught their skils to others and this is where we are today!
It would be very useful to see your Builders 2024 list. Looking forward to that ! Thank you 😊
Waiting for this too!
So pleased our house is from the 1970's ...... built in a time all the tradespeople could communicate with each other...
Loved the reels on Facebook, how we get the best of videos, Love it! My fav was redrow building a new estate on a backfilled quarry pond then wondering why all the houses had to be rebuilt due to subsidence.
Imagine these issues when picking up a brand new car. You would well them to Foxtrot Oscar. Why is this acceptable as "snags" on new builds is beyond belief..
Built in a day with 6 trades people falling over everyone. Plastered on a Wednesday bathroom getting tiled on Thursday..When will you be done...Site work is for mugs..
Good money though
66 yr old decorator, worked on 3 Bellway sites the last few years, I don't work for them now, but I was very impressed with the fit and finish and overall quality, PS worked for others as well, not so impressive
I don't know if they still do but when I bought my first house it was brand new and we had to exchange contract before it was finished, the rules should be you exchange once the house is done and you are happy. My first house was built by Barrett, several days after moving in we had a storm and the front window fell out, they didn't screw it to the brickwork, always remember that
Thank f@ck I live in a 300-year-old house, with all its associated problems. 😁
OMG, that's horrendous. That was signed off? By whom? Someone with no professional integrity, obviously! One of the reasons I'm jumpy of new builds.
do they fix this afterwards , things like walls out is gonna take a lot of sorting ??
The new up to date mode cons, mobile free range ovens and radiators.
After I dragged my son kicking and screaming through a carpentry apprenticeship & then into management , it is now with total amusement I hear him telling me the same stories I told him about with regards to snagging work done under piss poor management and special needs contractors. The sheer lack of visual common sense can be astounding at times.
Jesus, I've had enough issues with my 300 yr old farmhouse over the years, but give me an old property any day. None of this modern crap please!
Developer: Not sure what the problem is. It's a house isn't it?
What scares me is, if these are the "ridiculous" problems you can see, what about the stuff you can't - 10mm foundations? unanchored wall plates? unfixed staircase stringers? no electrode conductor?
A shed ?
Few years back I lived in a recently built house. I thought it was too cold and too hot for a recent build. After I sold up I saw a house on the same street having cavity wall insulation injected. Answered my question.
Great videos as always. As Xmas is nearing closer, are you planning on distributing awards for the 2024 Tier List?
my place is 1850, the landlord had it 'refurbished' 8 years ago. The door hinges are T's, some fitted to the ledges some fixed into the boards, to do this the original screws were hand cut to suit, so whenever I painted the place I took the furniture off, pushed the screws into polystyrene in position and then refitted them in the original holes.....Yup, you guessed it, the builder's muppet 'decorator' lost the screws so fitted Philips instead. First thing I did when I moved back was to rip my hand open on the points protruding through some of the doors. I complained so they wound the screws back so the points were recessed but the handles and hinges are loose. you couldn't make it up, and this is a national charity who are supposed to care for historic buildings......! That's just one problem, I could fill the comment section with dodgy work, like the 13 amp fuse running the immersion heater, that couldn't handle the boost function and no electrician has been able to understand what is going on so there's no immersion heater.
Jees too many wet lemons in construction these days
@@JrHartley-kt3wi sure are. I'm getting on a bit now at 63 but I just plastered a ceiling on my sons job we were putting cornice around. It's that wide, Victorian style coving so the ceiling needed to be level but it was all over the place. I tacked it then floated it in bonding, putting on in layers and allowing each layer to dry to keep the weight down, until it was flat, then set it. Because it took 4 days to get done they got some youngsters in for the other two ceilings, they are big 17ftx20ft. They plasterboarded the ceiling with four fixings per joist. I asked if that was enough. 'Of course' said the lad.
they put 50mm of wet bonding on, then set it all on the same day and the ceiling came down on them and put two of them in hospital. I spent years plasterers labouring, watching and learning, you have to consider the possible outcomes when doing unusual jobs and overbuild if you're not sure.
Jerry (builders) PLC. Want a new build? Look for a small development by a well established local buiiding firm with a good reputation. Hurry whilst there are still some left.
I've seen entire apartment blocks have to have new roofs fitted after about 5 years because the original roof has started to collapse. The best thing was when I saw a developer build a new housing estate on marshland that's constantly flooding and moving about. Those houses will sink in a couple years and the whole estate will have to be demolished.
Our home "Down Under" was built in the mid 1970's and was the original show home. Dead plumb walls, perfectly laid brickwork, and the Western Red Cedar sash windows still look good, and are pretty water-tight. Fast forward to the 2000's and we have "builders" paying off people's mortgages since the homes will need demolition and re-building, exterior walls collapsing owing to subsidence (incorrectly installed swimming pool by the Builder!), and a continuous torrent of TH-cam Building Inspection disasters. Nowadays, you pay a fortune for a mass-designed, thrown together "house", and when you try to approach the builders, well, they've disappeared (and set up shop under another name and Business Registration). Terrible situation.
the last house i ever built as a brickie was the last straw for me, the company had ordered window lintels that were far to short, i told them about it and the site agent insisted i put them in anyway (only a 10mm seat on each end ! should be 150mm each end) that was the day i retired my trowel and looked for another career, that was about 27 years ago so i can only imagine how much worse it is now with the quality of these so called tradesmen, i'd never buy a new built house ! give me an old twin wall traditional brick built structure any day of the week
You should see the way they throw them up in the states!
The joys of price work.
UK housebuilding is such a strange and backward beast. What other industry would employ apparently random work gangs to build its products?
America employs a good portion of Mexico by doing exactly that.
@@spencerock2187 and that's reflected in the pitiful quality of American house builds
Where was the site inspector, the surveyor? Cheep materials and inept labour.
Brilliant!!! Haven't laughed so much in ages! Crikey, even cowboy builders would cringe at this lot!!!
Cowboy building companies employing cowboy tradesmen who have no pride in their workmanship. Suggests an attitude of just get it done, collect the money and move on to the next job.
Noel posts! Mate Ive fitted these level even in my own house and as they dry out more they can twist out of level. Its a nightmare. They dont take enough moisture out of timber anymore as it costs more money. What do you do? Fit another and it can happen again?
Good luck in the house in Pocklington tomorrow Orlando. It's absolutely shocking. P.S the removal men didn't cause any damage
Who is actually responsible for the quality of the work?.
And signing the the property.
Seems the running gags are wonky walls, bluetooth mounting and random holes everywhere.
Great to meet Deborah. Sounds like some fearsome lady.
Serious question, what do the developers do when the walls are massively out of plumb?
Probably just knock a bit off the price and make it the homeowners problem to deal with.
It depends what you are referring to. If it's external brickwork, they'll have to take it down and rebuild it. If it's internal block wall, they can replaster it straight, and If it's an internal stud wall they can take of the plasterboard and add timber slivers or firrings to correct the studs before putting on new plasterboard. Professional Joiner here, that was also employed to correct most aspects of snagging, due to my perfectionist nature.
The government plans to build millions more just like this😂
5 star homes for our newly imported boat people!! 😂
the best houses are old council houses and terraced houses.. built to last..
free range radiators! hilarious!!
If I ever win the lottery, I will fund myself and my family clan through college and learn how to build our own dream house. Either that or I will be taking a spirit level to every viewing! 😂
If you won the lottery you will be able to pay for a top project manager and builders.
Just make certain they're taking you round the exact property, not the show house. You can be sure they finished that one absolutely perfectly no matter the condition of every other property.
Why are you not naming and shaming the builders?
developers homes are fine. they would not use their site boy,s on their homes. what a shambles this once great country is.
I wouldn’t have a new build if I was given on for free.
These developers force thier rates down so low (max profit/shareholders happy) that any subbie firm who takes on their contracts cant afford quality tradesman working for them if they want to make any money. It really is a case of pay peanuts, get monkey's. All the decent tradesman i know wouldnt even consider working on new builds given the rates and cowboys you'd be working with.
Could you post the names of the developers for the hall of shame
They're all like it. The same tradesmen go to different sites.
If he does then he will face a lot of copyright infringements claims, his videos will be taking down, it will cost at lot of time to fight these claims, some he may win, others he may loose, is it worth it?
And that is just the fighting with TH-cam, then wait for the letters he will get from solicitors, lot of time to spend there too. Remember that all stated in these videos may be 100% correct, but some out there do not like their name to be associated with shitty work, and solicitors makes a lot of money by agreeing with people feeling offended.
@@K2teknik. nonsense. People post bad reviews about different kind of products all the time. And it certainly doesn't have anything to do with copyright as no content was copied.
@@dmitriis4075 YT do not care about the substance in a copyright infringements claim, they take it "as is", so if somebody what to make noise then a copyright infringements claim is a good tool, remember that is fully automated on YT side, no human is reading the claims it is just taken for granted, it is up to the contain creator to do the lifting/fighting even for a false claim.
@@K2teknik. They should have some kind of automatic system that detects similar video or audio. They can't just agree with every claim someone submitted, otherwise anyone could abuse the shit out of the system complaining about every video just to prove the point.
In this particular case it would be really odd as these companies don't produce any audio or video content. Mentioning someone's brand name is not an infringement as long as you don't claim ownership of that name.
They may not like you mentioning their name, that's true, but we still had freedom of speech. You can't just sue everyone who doesn't like you
I wouldn’t buy a new build 30 years ago because of my survey’s report. I did not trust the well known building company that’s still around today. My survey came up with 85 snagging points from windows not properly fixed to the building they had just four screws holding the frame in. To the water pipes not sealed in the attic so they were leaking.
retired sick from site after 20 years, no damaged bricks went down on my lifts, but unfortunately the next generations attitude is often 'well, it ain't my house' which is wearing when you care about the quality of the job. brick damage usually little machine driver accidents
Laughed when you turned into Mrs Doubtfire 🤣🤣
Sounds more like Dilys Price from Fireman Sam.
I'm looking to self build a simple lean-to conservatory. I've spoken to local building officials and they've stressed the need for good quality.
I'm sure I can do better than any of these new builds, on my first time effort.
You have to name and shame those cowboys !
I built a garden room and learned how to do it from watching you tube builders. I know that I built it much better than these houses and I’m an old granny lol.
Would these new builds last the term of the mortgage? 😂😂😂
So if the flooring is off and ain't level what exactly happens. Do the developers have to fix it no matter the cost?
One would wonder why they didn't catch that on the rough inspection. Chances are they would go to court about it and take it from there.
@@spencerock2187No, these cowboys would just declare the company bankrupt and start again somewhere else.
I am never buying myself nor ever recommending a new build to anybody, even my enemies
Not all new builds are like this
Okay, thanks for letting us know. Perhaps they build cheap new houses near you. The ones I see are premium. Move to a better area if that helps 👍
I bought a new build from Persimmon with free built in Rat Infestation 👍🏻 thanks Persimmon
Oh nice! You could eat them. 🤔
@@newhomequalitycontrol they literally sent my cuckoo as we discovered them during lockdown my mental is not the same now and it never will be
What are your thoughts on Ashberry homes build quality? I know they're a sister company to Bellway. Potentially looking to get one of their houses.
Definitely do your research on the site
@@newhomequalitycontrol I don't know where to start tbh. Thanks for your reply!
@@markcabre1translation - stay the f away
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Pies for the boys. LMAO!
Hahahahahaha, This vid has cheered me up so much, you are ridicuuuulasly brilliant.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This video actually made me sick, we built our own house in 1964, part time, our dad was a builder. Best apprenticeship for life ever.
I get that with fit and finish items you can get it done properly but what do you do about walls being out of plumb?
Skim them till get sick :D
Never ever buy a new build. If they make 50 years old you will be lucky.
about 25-30 at tops..
Cardboard home these days
Looks like Cablesheer Constructions work!😮
But...but, with having to build a new home every minute to keep up this is going to become much worse.
Thats the problem we gotta face if every house only has 1 Worker and he gets 1 Week of time. I work in Construction and even i can say, if we finish some apartments I wouldn't pay a penny for those. A project that usually takes 3 years, should now be done in 10 months, with half the people. I dont know where we are heading.
Your commentary is what makes this channel just genius.
Continuously pissing myself laughing. Brilliant! 👍🏻🇬🇧
keep it up buyers deserve better and the companies train thier work force who signs this off you should have posted this shocker on halloween
Superb, as usual. 👌
Just wait until even cheaper American construction methods find their way over there as builders consolidate and focus on maximizing profit.
That is a one big snagging list.
Ok, so your finding lots of dreadful faults, but it's about time you named the builders and said where these crap houses are located.
Must be Wales?
When you find walls that are out more than 8 mm, what are the builders meant to do? I can't imagine they will agree to knocking them down, so is it simply the new owners have to accept the issue, or is there some way to rectify this?
Maybe there's something they could do about internal walls, but external walls, that's a much bigger issue.
Maybe do them right in the first place?
Quite a few years ago my apprentice told me that at college they were told that they could build a corner 8mm out of plumb. I was quite surprised, Back in the day if you built to those tolerances you would notice the clerk of works having a chat with the foreman discussing your future.
The apocalypse finish😂😂😂
This is what happens when houses are built down to a price, from cardboard and lolly sticks.
Rrrrrrrridicalous 😂
You get what you pay for on site. Unfortunately most of the money goes to greedy subbies for their German cars and foreign villas and bimbos.
You know, a lot of things being out of plumb when they are finished are more of an inspector problem. Yea they should have built it properly but it wouldnt get that far along if the inspector didn't fail to do their job in the first place and fail the inspection on the rough.
What inspector? There are very few around these days and most builders sign off their own builds.
@@mrdunns3338 I remember when all sites had a Clerk of the Works going round checking the work was being done properly, those days are long over!
I'm renting a small one and it's like it's been built by a group of kids that think there builders because they are good at lego. Its shocking. Like cardboard houses. Hope we dont get floods or were done for 😮
Horrendous examples on display here,but beat this on one Barratt Detached House built in 1976-Lightswitch reversed,Sollum not completely waterproofed,Creaking stairway,Rain entering through Window Edges in stormy weather,Cement bags stuffed into Picture Window slapping as base for fixing, Sewerage pipe connected to neighbour's system,Lounge not near rectangular but irregular in shape,Freshwater pipe only buried 10" deep freezing often in winter,Manhole too close to foundations making house tilt slightly forwardplus despite many requests the S.Agent and GF never addressed our complaints so we went to Laurie Barratt's HQ in Newcastle got to his PA within an hour SA/GF were at our house.Eventually the GF an alcoholic was blamed and sacked.
Nothing like a 5 year apprenticeship anymore where doing the job right is drilled into you everyday until you can't forget what your taught. 40+ years in a trade and still remember well whats not acceptable
I am shooked to the bones.
No supervision over the work , site managers that have no knowledge of the building.
Somthing about eastern europe quality , and no apprentices learning from the
oldboys as it used to be. Now retired but served the construction industry all my
life.How the hell can you learn plumbing eletrical carpentary and brickwork in a warm
classroom.
It's not only the workforce, the company that took over our contract and pushed us out was staffed with nippers who'd only just completed their "apprenticeship" which was around 5 months with a plumber and around 6/7 months in a classroom. During the transition period we were able to see their work and it was appalling but they were cheaper than us. How they got their gas, unvented cylinder and other certificates is a mystery.
You can’t.
Err where are these houses being built and can we put a condemned notice on them. It took 3 yrs to get ours finished.
The slums of tomorrow. if not today.
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@@newhomequalitycontrol there's a massive lack of competent trades people in the UK these days, just get a site card and some tools and just about anyone can be a carpenter, brick layer etc, cheap labour using boat people, this needs sorting out rapidly.
Most houses become slums eventually. Todays victorian houses that still stand is only because they have been renovated and modernised over many decades. If left in their original state they would not be fit to live in. Why cant people understand this.
@@oddities-whatnot Victorian houses had the wherewithall to stand for 100 years, I know I have had two, when it came time to modernize, the buildings were well capable of accepting some drastic action but without total demolition. The two houses that I had needed returning to their original design as far as could be achieved.The cellars and floor joists were as good as the Victorian builders had left them. Building fabric completely worth restoring and handing on. There are no building, plumbing or electrical apprenticeships worth anything now as the so called 'old school' has retired or died. I started my apprenticeship aged 15 in 1969, my time served as an industrial plumber was worth all my 50 years of giving to the trade. Love to all my fellow teachers tradesmen and the men who made sure that you 'knew'. including all those who are living and those who have passed.
They Come with a 10 Year Warranty.........My Builder Does not Really think that they need to make good, under warranty for Faults and ongoing issue, what little they do Gets Termed..."A Gesture of Goodwill" , or get offered a Low Figure of Money ( Insulting...Refused) to make Good their Faiilings ,Kind of a DIY situation, to make Good for the Builders Lack of Compliance to the Warranty
And warranties are pile of shit too, I would not trust them
Haha tidy video, keep them coming!
We will!
it's getting better then lol. Too many low paid slave workers involved in the trades while the big companies make a fortune. I wish it wasn't so but as someone that works on house bashing sites, you get to see what is really going on.
Was gonna pay cash for a new build......but now I'm not
Okay. That makes my life so much better knowing that.
They are not builters today, kids, All they of McDonald's, every time I go Past McDonald's their vans are "Parked" there
Good work for crap tradesmen but as long as they have cscs cards and are yes men for the health and safety while they drove all us good tradesmen out
im job