Persimmon house

[^woody^]

"Distraught buyer reveals the EIGHTY flaws in his new-build £210,000 Persimmon house and wins the support of TV architect George Clarke who calls it 'shocking' "

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7651659/TV-star-George-Clarke-brands-210-000-new-build-Persimmon-house-shocking.html

Lol.

 

[charliegolf]

I friend of mine from 'oop north' has a number of snags which Acme Homes Inc simply ignored. He went around the site collecting gash bits (slates etc), piled them up on his land at the entrance to the estate and put a sign up saying, 'Would you buy a home from Acme Homes? See me first'. All his snags were done within a week. AFAIK, not a single prospective buyer canvassed him!

 

[John D v2.0]

Eighty is that supposed to be good or bad for a new build?

 

[noseall]

Poxy amateurs.

 

[Iamchamps]

Anything less than 100 you have done well

 

[^woody^]

I don't do many actual snagging inspections nowadays, but when I did, it was usually mundane missing silicone, plaster dents and paint and mortar marks. I'm not sure if snagging a Persimmon house would be easy or the hardest £50 I'd ever earn.

 

[^woody^]

Poxy amateurs.

You need to send them some pictures

 

[pete50]

I wouldn't buy a new build from any builder these days. My house was built in the sixties with solid interior walls and stands proud opposite cardboard houses built relatively recently. I'm not saying that all older houses are any good just that new ones are absolute rubbish, all of them. If I ever move, which is now unlikely, it will be to an older house, not terraced or semi detached and it, most definitely, wont have a stinking wood burner. Neither will it follow the, seemingly, current trend of having shed doors as internal doors. Oh yeah and it will have a garage that I can actually get my car into.

 

[JP_]

current trend of having shed doors as internal doors

what is this trend???

I bought a Barratts house in 2002. It was pretty good really. One thing I only spotted months after moving in was tiny dents in the plaster, usually high up the wall, that had been circled with a pencil.
If the pencil wielder had not circled them, I'd have never even noticed the tiny dents. I rubbed the pencil marks out.

We did have a leak - the bath waste was not tightened properly. Ruined a ceiling. Then painted over it though.

 

[JP_]

"While I was mowing the lawn he kicked a raised drain cover and broke his foot"

How is that possible? Even with no shoes on, you'd struggle to break a foot unless you were running with the lawn mower... and, surely the lawnmower would hit the drain cover before your foot ...

 

[John D v2.0]

"While I was mowing the lawn he kicked a raised drain cover and broke his foot"

How is that possible? Even with no shoes on, you'd struggle to break a foot unless you were running with the lawn mower... and, surely the lawnmower would hit the drain cover before your foot ...

Probably in frustration at paying all that for a house in that state!

 

[noseall]

You need to send them some pictures

Lol.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I wouldn't buy a new build from any builder these days. My house was built in the sixties with solid interior walls and stands proud opposite cardboard houses built relatively recently. I'm not saying that all older houses are any good just that new ones are absolute rubbish, all of them. If I ever move, which is now unlikely, it will be to an older house, not terraced or semi detached and it, most definitely, wont have a stinking wood burner. Neither will it follow the, seemingly, current trend of having shed doors as internal doors. Oh yeah and it will have a garage that I can actually get my car into.

My home is a 1955-ish semi, built when land was cheap. I have a massive garden, drive up the side and space if I wanted to park around 7 cars, a 24x12' garage with a 14x 12' workshop on the back of that. The village has been extended with lots of new properties around us, but I would not want to swap. They have tiny drives, tiny gardens and tiny garages if they have one at all. They are so close to their neighbours, anything large would have to be craned in over the top. I have a big caravan, which I store in my drive at the back end, which I could easily move if I wanted off the drive into my back garden. The downside is, I have to use a tractor mower to cut all the grass.

 

[JP_]

Similar here. Not got a wide drive on side of house, but could squeeze a car past if I wanted. Large garden, room for outbuildings if I had the money! All new houses around have tiny gardens now, crazy how small they are. There seems to be a new trend of combining the garden with the parking space too - seen a few houses that have cars parked next to small lawns.

Problem with old houses is idiots raising paths and driveways over decades and causing damp problems!

 

[mikeey84]

The only advantages I could see in a new build round us when we moved was 1) master bedroom often had an ensuite shower room and 2) cheaper to heat. In the end we went for a 30's semi with a huge garden and not overlooked. Pretty draughty, but upgrading the insulation as we renovate

We counted 20 houses that overlooked our garden in a new build we viewed.