SHOCKING FINDS AT THESE NEW BUILD HOMES 😱
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- Опубліковано 14 січ 2022
- Here's a compilation of serious issues we've found at these new build homes. New build snagging Inspection
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I was delivering a container to a well known building company. The builders were saying that one of their bricklayers had been sacked because a prospective buyer had asked him if the houses were ok. He told them the build quality was crap and he wouldn’t buy one.
At least he was honest 😂
Absolutely shocking!
I say the same to anyone as I've worked on these new builds and they are even worse than shown here just hidden away
They repaid his honesty by grassing him up to the gaffer.. nice
That builder should have therefore been trying to do better
I’m a retired brickie and the guy I worked for employed only quality tradesmen and when I was looking after a build when the inspector came onto site saw who the contractor was he said thank goodness I know everything will be done properly, that’s how it should be proper tradesmen and quality building materials, as I was taught it’s far easier doing it correctly first time and don’t be afraid to point out someone’s error the guy might have been distracted and forgot to finish it off properly because true tradesmen don’t want to get a bad name
Hi I’m a bricklayer and your spot on in what you say. Today it seems to me that there are 3 main problems in construction today in uk.
1 The price mercenaries (subcontractors) getting is crazy. In Lincoln it’s over a £ a brick. So they are going to slam them in.
2 time constraints on getting house done
3 new gen of trades men out there are well under qualified in their trade. NVQ what a joke. A 2 year college course isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. I know I got it. I passed 2004 and it was a better course then. But now kids are passing level 2 courses on work that we did halfway in level 1 it’s crazy. My apprentice has passed his course work in brickwork but never done a fire place a chimney and won’t get qualified until he passes year2 higher learning math. Should go back to city and guilds. Most lads out there now have little to no trowel time it’s rong. As long as you can half lay to a line you pass it crazy.
@@duncanodea4928 Is this for Lindum, that would explain some of the build quality of the new build sites I have seen in North Hykeham/ Waddington?
@@duncanodea4928 exactly the same with chippies nvq can you use a cordless drill drill to screw that in or can you set out a winding stair case city and guilds got diluted to bullshit
I'm a decorator and I stopped working for one builder because he was getting me to paint very carefully over all the shit work he was doing in an effort to make it disappear.
The HSE caught up with him eventually and fined him (not very much).
My partner and I bought our first house together around 20 years ago. It cost almost half a million pounds. The snagging list turned in to a bound volume of faults found by the surveyor I employed. We had the window manufacturers inspect the installation and every window was condemned and had to be replaced. This was just the start, eventually we were given another house to live in while ours was being repaired. This took 6 months. THE NHBC CLAIMED THEY HAD INSPECTED THE PROPERTY. In fact at the time of this so called inspection we had been living in the property for 3 months and I can't recall being paid a visit by this organisation. What we must remember is that the NHBC is funded by the house building industry. Talk about a fox looking after the chickens.
@Retrobunnies Bit harsh bud, doesn't matter what price it was really. 9 times out of 10 a house regardless of size is going to be the most expensive purchase/debt anyone owns. New builds get a bad rep and there clearly are some shocking builders out there who put profits over quality. But there are also plenty of sh*try old house out there also with no DPCs, riddled with asbestos, radon issues ect ect not to mention the energy efficiency rating (best of luck with the energy price increases).
I have owned new and old and would say both can be good or bad and mostly down to preference when the houses are good quality.
@@MrDemonfire117 I've seen Radon mentioned on surveys. What is it please and what problems does it cause?
@Retrobunnies You need to grow up and smell the coffee you fuckwit. Most new properties in the UK cost that now.
@Jessicas_Clean wow, sour grapes or what! Half a million doesn't but much today but you expect a quality build for it.
NHBC Set up by a builder in the first place!
I live next to a field that was made into a Barretts estate. I had the displeasure of watching them build these houses (they were right at the end of my garden so I had no other option as they were so loud) and having seen the way they bodged things up I would NEVER touch a new build, and definitely not a Barratts, with a bargepole. I could hear the labourers shouting to each other about how crap it was!!!
Well done mate! About time someone held these cowboys to account! Absolutely disgusting how these properties can be issued CML's let alone handed over to customers! NHBC need to be held accountable over this disgrace! 🤬
the problem is nobody is held to account probally because of how much big building firms donate to government
@@garyowen4112 or dontae to the inspectors cough cough
D: precisely.. exactly 🤨
Today there not half trained do rightly job we had to put new floors in a hidden water leak rotted the floors chipboard floors are rubbish .
These building firms contract firms who employ no direct labour … all the workers are forced into false self employment or hired from employment agencies … both options offer zero Hour Contracts with no holiday or sick pay … Building houses is about Box Ticking and enormous Proffits… Blame the Government for condoning immoral employment practices…
That is absolutely disgracefully.
PLEASE name and shame the companies that did these utter disastrous builds.
Most of those issues are not so bad - as a "damn, we really used a bad one here". But in this amount? And like "all doors" - yes, shame them. This is ridiculous. Is that now the quality people try to get away with?
Every body these days, they live in McDonald's, Friday 12pm Finnish, won't work Saturday or Sunday,
Every building site has similar issues to this 😂
@@blobicusmaximusgaminginc2186 😬 good thing I've never been on one of the sites you're on, the ones I've been on are fine!
@@MGDM4 I promise you there will be stuff you haven’t noticed, I fit garage doors and half the doors I install the bottom of the frame is tight to the brickwork whilst the top is set back upto 2 inches. My frame has to be plum, even if it shows how poor the brickwork is. It’s three of the biggest house builders in the uk that I work on site for so I don’t believe that these things don’t happen on your sites, only that you haven’t noticed it 🤷♂️
I'll stick to owning my 1940s ex-council house thanks. Huge rooms, built well and with more character than most new builds. Plus cheap as chips 🤷♂️
Totally agree, there’s houses near me who just after ww2 we’re built as a temporary measure, they’re still there. I worked in a school built in the early 1900s, as a child I went to schools built in the 50s when my home was built, there was always leaks if it rained. Where I worked leaks were very rare. The walls were mostly a foot, 12 inch, 30 cm thick. The drill bits often snapped so any repairs could take a few weeks as the drill bits were difficult to get hold of .
The hours were definitely built to a higher standard than the schools
Likewise I have 1961 council house I bought of the guy who bought via buy to let, so well made.
Only issue with a ex-council house is usually they’re built on a council estate, in a crap area with a mix of chavvie neighbours. I’ll give it a miss to be fair.
@@Jamsnaxx Salt of the earth us council lot
I’ve just done up a three bedroom mid terraced - well my builder did - he’s the best - the house is a hundred years old and it’s solid - it may not have the mod cons of a new build but I’ll take that anytime
I can relate to this. I was sold a south facing house but when the sun was going down I noticed it was in the wrong place the plans and the build were 90 degrees out! I had a snagging report carried out and there were 360 snags! It took me over 2 years to get MOST things put right but after so long they just wear you down and I gave in. I did insist on the worst ones getting sorted before I did finally give up though. I would never buy a new build again
I guess rotating the house or shooting the developer into space to fix the sun never happened?
In all seriousness though sorry you had so much stress. I'm glad this borderline criminality is being exposed online now.
Have it knocked down and built right
Granny’s arm pit lol! Neatly installed onto nothing lol! Cracked me up.
Same hahahaha
I would like to see a follow up video on how some of these problems are fixed, and what repercussions there are for the building company.
I was about to write the same, especially when the brick walls aren't plumb. Do they knock them down guess not
@@roscopeco2000 Out of plumb walls are rarely fixed. If the homeowner can get the builder to admit fault, they might offer a settlement but honestly it’s going to be like that till they demolish the house and the builder will have moved on to the next bodge job.
Most of these inspections lead to money at best and the homeowner living with it or paying someone else to rectify. If the estate is still under construction they might attempt a repair. It’s normally the last few houses that are the worst, with the construction company long gone.
Yes, if it's out by alot its common the brickwork gets knocked down
@@cg4528 keep the house then. If it ain't right then it's theft of your money. How building companies are allowed to get away with it is disgusting.
@@newhomequalitycontrol never once in 20 plus years have I seen a gable get taken down on a house that's been handed over. Perhaps if it's been caught buy the supervisor when it's actually in build but never once roof is on and signed over. The nhbc should get all get all videos you make so they can learn what needs to be checked, I've said it before and I'll say it again one check at joist lift by the nhbc isn't enough plus they don't check for level or plumb. The only thing nhbc want to see is clean trays and clean ties that's alls that has been checked for at least 7 years now. The industry needs a dramatic change but I think if you had a clerk of works on site again like the old days this would be nipped in the bud.
Builder did some work on my house and said if you ever move again get an old property , as they are being thrown up by jokers now a days and tolerances are at the minimum required (apparently you can't store stuff in you loft on new builds as they can't take the weight! ) as this lad says SHOCKING - keep up the good work 👏
I agree my house was built in 1847 no comparison
It has nothing to do with weight. It is due to the fact you will compress the insulation and reduce its thermal rating properties.
As a kid I was always fascinated with building sites. They weren't like today's where everything is closed off at the end of the day, you could go in all the properties, up ladders onto scaffolding, etc. I remember seeing builders' rubbish from lunchtime, so like crisp packets and drinks bottles, etc. shoved in fireplace cavities ready to be rendered over. Also the crap builders and tradesmen get rid of under floorboards is disgraceful. I've also heard stories more recently on a local development where houses can go for half a mil, where the lawns had no drainage because they were essentially just builders' rubble dumps that had been levelled and turfed over.
That last bit is EVERY new build, it's absolutely disgusting the money they charge for these absolute shitholes
@@UnjustifiedRecs yep heavy machinery tracking back and forth compacting "soil" the gardens get a dusting of topsoil before turfing (if you're lucky). Wouldn't go near a new build unless I was checking my plot daily. Even then I'd be worried the shite thrown up next door would still cause issues for mine. Stay away.
Yep, just dug out a patio for my new build and found a pallet, bricks, cement bags and drinks bottles, shocking
I know a local developer scraped off all the topsoil pushed it into a massive pile and sold it off to the highest bidder what the purchasers ended up with was a plot of bedrock clay that grew nothing and never drained
Yep. Standard. Why pay for skips when you can bury all the shite under the gardens
Fantastic work as usual! These clowns need to be held accountable! Starting with all the site manager's that sign this shite off!
Its a bit very naive to think the site manager ‘signs these off’
They are inspected by an insurance company.
Theirs a real problem in this country with shortage of skilled labour. Also the margins building new houses especially now with supply issues, massive material price increases and as of this year a change in requirements to build more ecological houses (regarding toning out of gas boilers and rightly so).
Theirs plenty of stuff out bashing new builds, less on the ones that are done well..
A well built new house will always be better then something built before building regs were more stringent. Unless it’s an over specked self build.
@@amateurvegan2636 I don't know why anyone would buy one. No tradesman on these sits.
A site manager will sign off the work before any insurance company comes around...
You are right about the skilled labour demand. They employ chimps ( anyone ) hence the shocking work.. Can't even rectify snagging issues on the 3rd attempt type.
Heat pumps will not be feasible in this country you watch what is going to happen.
Yes a well built new house will be better than one from a different era, but you will be paying through the nose for it.
@@bogged9820 its the peice work price structure, you can only make it pay if you do it quickly. Its frankly bollocks.
@@amateurvegan2636 margins on pricework maybe, but not on selling profit.
4 things are certain in my life. Eating, sleeping, shitting, and never buying a new build
Just noticed your channel and subscribed. You are doing an excellent service highlighting the failures of big companies creating horrendous new builds. They are happy to take unsuspecting peoples money who have saved for decades to get on the property ladder. I salute you.
I'm a self employed carpenter/ interior fitter covering all aspects of work.
If I turned out work like this I'd sell my tools and look for something more suited to my lack of skills and pride! It's F##### disgraceful!!
Good man for highlighting all this crap which people need to know who are on the look out for newbuilds.
Well done …great to see someone pushing and striving for quality!
Here's a tip for anyone buying a new build house......When you get your site visits take a spirit level with you. Put it on the floors, internal walls and brickwork. Pop the plinths off the kitchen units and take the bath panels off, that's usually an instant indication of how much care has been taken in your home. You'll find that any developer will be much more eager to sort out any issues BEFORE they've taken your money.
Or just don't buy a new build. I wouldn't buy anything that isn't built buy a proper tradesman.
@@theangrygamer895 everyone who works in the house is a proper tradesman. I'd say 90% of the guys on site are fully capable of doing a high quality job, the problem is it just isn't possible when the time scales are as tight as they are and site are just chucking trades in on top of one another
Don't. That's the advice.
@@theangrygamer895 the only thing these build don't get is time. No one working on them isn't a professional. Amateurs can do all this perfectly fine with none of the mistakes it will just take them four times as long.
@@greenreaper1985 not mention the crap materials what are stored badly and not fit for purpose.my favourite saying is you can’t make a gateau with trifle ingredients.
We need more of videos like this! This issue needs to be addressed!
In my new build, they had built the box room 6” too short which stopped us from being able to put a bed in it. They had to come back, rip up the carpets, demolish and move the whole wall back and re carpet. Also every time I walked over the carpet I could feel plaster droppings. They also didn’t install the fire break in the roof and had to come back to sort it out. We sold it after 18 months, absolutely rubbish. It was the first new build we’d ever had and would never have another. The craftsmanship on older homes is amazing.
My house was built in the 1960s and the craftsmanship is also crap, unfortunately. I installed me own kitchen a few years ago and found that none of the walls were at right angles - fitting an L-shaped of units I had to pack the wall out by about 5 inches by the time I got to one end! But yes generally things seem to be getting worse.
We had the same issue with a missing downpipe and drain missing. The foreman came back and removed the running outlet and said it was a mistake. A few months later during some heavy rain I noticed a lot of overflow from the gutter, I then found another set of houses the exact same as ours and saw they had a downpipe. Complained to the company and told them their “fix” and quickly addressed the issue.
Brilliant. Always good to see a man that loves his job and knows it inside out.
Best observation: "This looks like my granny's armpit" 😂😂😂😂😂😂 But seriously, big sympathies to anyone who has problems like these.
Just found this channel and absolutely love it. ❤ Great commentary, Absolutely Shocking 😂
We never had this trouble when the Irish construction workers were on site
Worked with them for years hard grafters
I’ve had plenty of Irish builders who not only bodged everything they did but were aggressive if you had the audacity to say anything about the fact the work wasn’t what was agreed at the outset. I would never have another Irish builder.
Unfortunately this isn't unusual. The standard of building in the UK has deteriorated since the privatisation of building inspectors and the massive increase in the use of cheap foreign labour.
yes...
And the savage shortage of skilled labour since all the young people were misinformed about (conned in to) higher education.
I am a foreigner in England for 20 years. don't just blame the cheap labor, blame your bribe inspectors and the carelessness of your own managers. the workforce does what managers say
@@evgeniyhristov1452 not so my bulgarian friend...
you are utterly useless... why? because:-
• you have no training
• no college
• no trades experience
• purchased cscs for £800
• unable to read drawings
• don't care
• only on a site for the money
• filthy "not my job" attitude
• hate english people ie. your colleagues
you have de-spoiled the industry over years & years & years...
& i blame stupid greedy owners of companies who hire sub-standard cheap foreign labour to save a few pounds...
fcuk 90% of crappy eastern european labour back to where they came from...
build a garden shed in bulgaria if you want to... but don't try & lay a brick, or 2nd fix carpentry... because you're fcuking wank...
amen.
i can testify that, our landlord hired foreign labour at our tenancy because they were cheap now everything's squint, the paintwork on the doors looks like it was painted with milk and cracks have formed around the windows....
Wow, just wow. Well done for calling this out. I hope anyone that has been a victim of this absolute disgrace gets the compensation and a properly built house that they deserve!
Being a tiler, the stories I hear from new build owners is beyond belief
Love these videos, no BS straight to the point. I would love to see a video of what is done to rectify all these disgraceful problems.
Thank you! Well it's all put into a report with photos and descriptions, usually about 120-180 issues on average and the client gives that to the developer to rectify the work
@@teclo1057 He's an independent inspector mug.
@@newhomequalitycontrol 120 /180 issues??? how the hell do they keep trading, we had a timber frame bungalow built in the early 90/s and the guy from NHBC wouldn't sign off until all 4 faults were rectified.
@@mikeplant9163 I live in a small se england town where two substantial blocks were built 20 or so years ago in a prominent sea front location, the developer ruined the surrounding roads that had to be re tarmac'd at council expense they poured large amounts of cement into the local drains which set solid and had to be replaced by Southern Water, these two blocks have never been signed off and the flats never sold because the blocks are moving and badly sinking, what was meant to be a high end development has ended up as glorified temporary accommodation
@@Daisy-tl2lh absolutely shameful that they get away with it.
I’ve bought two new builds in my life one 26 years ago and the other 21 years ago - both had some minor issues nothing serious, all things that were quickly rectified. I don’t think I’d go anywhere near a new build today, not saying they’re all bad, but standards have certainly gone down the toilet compared with what the once were.
Nonsense standards have gone up. There's always bad builders and it's luck of the draw
I'm sure if someone was videoing 26 years ago there would have been far more scare story's don't forget the people making theses films are making a living from it so are trying to scare people into paying for there services
@@hod2116 nothing wrong with a house buiilt with asbestos 😅
@@VGAppSolutions its not asbestos it was horse shit and hay and painted walls and the plague disease embedded itself into the walls and made people sick so they burnt them houses down. i eat asbestos for breakfast.
I feel far more comfortable with my own diy now, thanks!
I worked sites in the 80s and it was bad then. There was no accountability, the building companies are effectively accountants, they rely on contractors to police their own work, the NHBC was almost invisible. It's no wonder things go wrong! There was nobody there to push standards! It seems nothing has changed: probably a lot worse than it was back then!
I see this argument a lot, but my question is why is it never raised that the builders ultimately have responsibility over their own work? We already know that construction work is vastly overpaid for its market value, so builders think they can just slack off and cut corners because some bean counter in Head Office says so? I mean, how much more incentive to builders need to do a proper job? Infinity pounds per job? A medal? A parade? This attitude is completely endemic to the building trade and perpetuated by those in it. A surgeon doesn't just cut your appendix off and then leave it in your torso because they think they're not being paid enough. A fireman doesn't arrive at a fire and put half of it out because they think they're not being paid enough. A teacher doesn't get to 1pm and stop teaching because they think they're not getting paid enough. A waiter doesn't bring you your starter and then just doesn't bring you your main or dessert because they think they're not being paid enough.
Never mind the fact that you go to any building site anywhere, ever, and you'll find the majority of builders at any one time simply not working. Either waiting for the outcome of fixing their own dumb mistakes, or heading for their fourth meal of the day and it's not even 3 o'clock, or increasingly only working school hours between 9am and 3/4pm, or on their phones in the van cab, or standing around smoking and vaping next to open sewers, electrical conduits, gas lines, etc.
Anybody else in any other industry would be fired quicker than you can say lickety-split for what builders in this country get away with, and get far less pay and social plaudits for much worse working conditions and protections.
I ask again, what incentive to builders actually need to complete the job they're being paid a far above average salary to an acceptable standard? Because we can't keep paying Derek £50K/year to rock up at 11am, sit in the van picking his arse for an hour, waltz into a building site, make a hash job of fixing two pipes together, and then say he's done for the day and bugger off down the pub.
Could you list where these homes are and who built them so we know to avoid or to carry out checks on viewing. If a building firm is a persistent offender we need to be aware.
Just check any new build site, none of these are unique.
The trouble is once they sold all these homes the company ceases to exist under their current names and start again under a different name, so there is nobody to take responsibility for this garbage work.
@@baldyslapnut. True.
"This looks like my Granny's armpit" made me spit my tea out! Great video. It's a shame all the issues are so serious. And people ask me why I do all my own work and don't use "the pros" !
Shockin'
Absolutely shocking sums these up perfectly. Those walls way off plumb.
Great video. 👏
I call these new builds : Cardboard houses 😂😂
They officials who signed the place off should be jailed, someone’s getting a back handed somewhere
My mates a builder and he told something similar happened with one as what we see at the end of this video. Roof blew out and crushed the owners car. These new builds are death traps.
Shocking . Thanks for the insight.👍
Never mind the mortar snots, check out the gap between the cill and the bottom of the window, it's not even sitting on the stone cill 1:08 😂😂
Would love to see a similar analysis/ inspection of the flats going up in many parts of London, such as Vauxhall, Battersea, Colindale, Kings Cross, Thamesmead etc.
London is a dump though, the housing is the least of your worries!
Love this! Great to see someone highlighting the shady builders, and like you said who signed these off.. Follow the bank accounts.👍👍
Pmsl some of the best one liners ever 😂🏴
Love when you say 'look at this' 'look at that' 😂😂. Love it
Biggest mistake I ever made buying a new build. Cant wait to get out. Thanks for highlighting some of the issues.
My grandfather was a builder after being a solider in WW2 and he wouldn't leave a house in that state. He was a man of his craft
Sadly that kind of work ethic has long disappeared. Now it's just grab money and move on to next job.
This is why I always but older houses. My current one was built in 1805.
Solid no leaks . Large garden. Heaven.
The word was BUT not but. Sorry
Brilliant - looks like my grannies armpit, great videos guys.
The missing drain? They probably covered it up by accident. Which is exactly what happened at our new build home. The builders who fitted our conservatory found it.
Building managers who sign these off need to be personally responsible. The poor quality in new builds would be fixed overnight guaranteed.
ALREADY ON HIS WAY BACK TO POLAND MATE
@@matthewspry4217 you can't blame Polish for that, alot of them are British
@@bengunns9500 Never said he be Polish 😋 we screwed ourselves after Brexit can't find any decent labour 👍
Thank you for this programme many of us won’t fall for these ..um…beautiful new houses.
a while ago the whole gable end of a house came away during a high wind narrowly missing passers by - we are used to shoddy building practise in the third world but the UK has a tried and tested system running that for money reasons has all but been abandoned by local councils - the passing back and forth of brown envelopes comes to mind!
I'm currently learning Bricklaying and Carpentery in College and to see the state on these is just embarrassing. I'd be embarrassed to call my self a Bricklayer or a Carpenter after doing work like this on a house.
Don't worry, by the sounds of some of the folk commenting it will be about 6 months on the job before you've given up any professionalism and you're just raking in the cash with the rest of them throwing shit up and laughing about it down the pub.
@@kal9001 No way. People like that should face Jail time for fraud.
Bricklaying and Carpentry! I did a five year apprenticeship to become a joiner!
Just wait till you get on the sniff with the lads and you’ll soon stop giving a shit about most things in life, quality of work being the first thing out the window along with your relationships and sanity 😅 I only say so cos I’m 32 and all my bricklayer pals are now total mess heads
@@terrynorton3182 and here lies the problem, as a plumber I did like you ,5years and the gas ,unvented etc.
The surveyor who signed this off must have received a brown envelope full of cash from the developer. It's like the house Stevie Wonder built
This is where CSCS / CPCS and NVQ have taken the industry since City and Guilds and Common sense were no longer recognised on site.
You should have your own TV series, great work!.
I love it when people online brag about how their newbuilt home is so much better than a 1950s house.
Yes, building regulations are better (in theory), greed and ethics are not!
Who would risk buying a new build. The house would fall apart within ten years.
“This looks like my granny’s armpit”
Cracked me up. 😆🤣
Omg that gable collapsing, absolutely shocking!
I live in the next road from the house the gable end fell off of. A mate of mine lives in the "mirror" house at the opposite end. That development of houses is only about 8 years old and have already had extensive roof repairs because they leaked as they weren't constructed properly. When the gable end went, it turns out they forgot to put the wall ties in, then lashed a few in afterwards, securing them to the surface of the inner wall with a rawlplug and a screw! None of them were done properly, so all the other end houses STILL have scaff bracing the gable ends up and still not fixed, months later. And they were all signed off by building control. NHBC are dragging their feet, and the council are trying to wriggle out of any responsibility despite signing them off... I'm bloody glad my house was built in the 1930s. It'll be around long after this crap is bulldozed.
Just imagine, if that car wasn't illegally parked on the pavement, that man would have been using it. If he had, there's no question, he would be dead. If I drive my car with unsafe tyres, I face prosecution. The bigger question is, did the developers face prosecution?
@@khalidacosta7133 nope. Building control want prosecuting too. They seem to always get away scot free. Look at Grenfell. No-one seems to be looking at those signing off this rubbish. They are allowing this appalling crap to be sold!
I think this house is absolutely worth the £375k in the midlands, despite those doors costing only around £20 each in retail, when undamaged. Yes, well built houses from the seventies may cost half as much in the area, but you need to pay for the privilege of belonging to today’s aspirational working classes and live in a neighbourhood where your neighbours also drive A-Class Mercedes and the little Range Rover on finance!
So funny! Brilliant!
"Shockalockalocka"😂
Just came from recommended
Love your channel
We bought our second new build a few years ago our first was a Barrett house we had a few issues with that but nothing like the one were in now. One corner of this house's damp proof course is way below part of our drive way as it is on a backward slop!! You can get your fingers under all the fire doors (as we have a town house) but according to the building contractors this is acceptable 🤣😂 the house is supposed to be well insulated but it is always cold in the winter 😡 the pvc rear door doesn't line up properly and has a gap in one corner so have to use a draft excluded to stop the draft coming in as it doesn't matter how much you alter the hinge's it doesn't solve the problem, also several of the doors are damaged. Pretty much every plaster board nail head is poking out and lots of walls are not straight. Snagging list .... Forget it there not interested once they have your money.
Dont blame the contractors, I was a deccy on new builds who was sub contracted to paint 60 new social housing new builds, the main painting contractor took me round the 28 houses he had already done and it was chit standards of work (but) he told me that is the standards of work (they) wanted, I took on 4 houses at first and finished them then the Architect and Clerk of works came round with a magnifying glass pointing out this and that, I walked off the site but felt sorry for the main painting contractor who had to snag the 28 houses he had done.., and word is a 100.000 trees were downed in the paper it took for the snagging list.
When I say dont blame the contractors what I mean is the sub contractors, although there really is no excuse for leaving work like this but moral within the trades are at an all time low that trades simply dont care any more.
@@formhubfar I think you’ve hit the nail on the head mate, as soon as a clerk of works or anyone with a conscience flags up the sub standard work then the contractor walks to the next site they think they can get away with it, the buck stops with the person carrying out the shoddy work, if a contractor is any good then they won’t work for peanuts and put their name to the abysmal work.
I love the way he says, "look-ah' that!" 😅
I grew up in a beautifully built, one of a kind 4 story home in Chicago, built in 1916. I was spoiled living in a home that was so beautifully crafted and structurally sound with attention to every detail.
In spite of obscene costs, many homes built these days, and that includes high-end homes, are shoddy by comparison. A lot of people in construction just don't have pride in their craftsmanship, and the builders are always cutting corners.
I took an architectural design class in college, and my professor warned us that if we ever built a house to check in on site and keep a close eye on material quality and workmanship,
I bought a new build roughly 25 years ago. There were minor issues such as a kitchen tile that had been bodged, three attempts to get the worktops correct, a pipe to the shower which started bulging out of the wall at the top of the stairs, one floor tile that was a different colour to all the rest. Most of these were sorted, but I discovered a crack running down an external wall through both the mortar joints and the bricks themselves which you could easily fit a pound coin in. I took pictures, wrote to NHBC as we had the "guarantee" and they said there was no cause to worry or correct it! If the NHBC don't have the balls, ( or made independent of the building trade), to actually act on poor workmanship and material failure then this will continue to be the standard the public can expect. Oh and don't forget, even older homes aren't exempt from poor workmanship. A lot of the suburbs we have now were built after the war, when housing was in short supply and there was a plentiful supply of servicemen ready to roll up their sleeves and build them, with minimal training etc.
Imagine buying into one of these and then the housing bubble pops 🤪
Never ever would I touch a new build
“This looks like my grannies armpit”
Classic
As an old fart, O N C & H N C Master carpenter and joiner, I later ended up with my own joinery and woodmill, and light engineering factories,I became a bit of an expert on old timber properties, and was on retainer for a big company running multi million pound contracts, so I guess one could say I have experience. I only did bespoke works and work for listed or ministry buildings, churches or one offs. Basically the kind of work that was highly specialised. Therefore in answer to this video I say pay peanuts you get monkeys! None of the faults shown here are works by proper skilled trades people that are time served. The governments killed apprenticeships and created mayhem! Government "training was 6 months , instead of a four or five year apprenticeship.
Can I ask what year you were born?
So many elements of the truth in your one response - well done for summarising the real problems so well
This video is fantastic mate. Keep em coming. I think the real issue here are the building control and inspection officers not doing their job properly. The only way the house builders will learn is when it hits them in the wallet when their buildings dont get signed off. New builds in the UK are a joke.
Thank you 😊
It’s not the responsibility of building control for quality issues mate, building regs are the absolute minimum you can get away with ie the lowest of the low, the only way that house builders will learn is if the trades are competent, correct wages are paid and the people doing the work take some pride in their work but everyone needs to put food on the table. A clerk of works is the way but not many housebashers would want to be on a site that they can’t get away with sub standard work so they move on to the next one to have a go, a snagging inspector gets paid for finding the faults after the event; qualifications required - none really; anyone can do it so that isn’t the answer. If everything was perfect then a snagging inspector would be out of a job so go figure. At the end of the day EVERYONE is doing it for the money and nothing else.
@@user-ix4ge6rr7u Interesting points mate. Are there any particular home builders people should avoid where possible (Permisson, Barratt etc) or does it not really matter as it changes from site to site?
@@user-ix4ge6rr7u "Building regs are the absolute minimum you can get away with".
Then... Increase the building regs so the absolute minimum is... A good quality home. This is 100% a government issue and always has been - companies will always be as close to breaking the law as they can get away with and it's up to the government to make sure they can't scam people... But they haven't done their job for the last 40 years or so.
@@JD-env1 Hi RT, I think all the major companies are pretty much the same, it depends on the site managers and the tradespeople they use, if you have large housing site with minimal management staff and only 1 site manager then they simply won’t have the time to see everything and people can and will take advantage, the problem is that despite the general negativity towards new builds people still buy them, I’d say do your own research, get a snagging company such as New Home Quality Control involved as soon as possible and if something doesn’t seem right then be prepared to walk away, a house is normally the biggest investment we will make so don’t be taken in by the show house and think hard before you part with your hard earned cash.
Brilliant narrator....keep it coming.
Absolutely shocking. I love it.
As an Ex Site Manager none of this surprises me which is why I stopped being one. The pressure on the site teams from the corporate structure above meant it was basically designed in to build utter rubbish. I have worked for 4 of the five biggest house builders and they are all bad but Persimmon Homes is in a league of its own. I am embarrassed to have worked for them.
Yes there persimmons site not to far from me heard all the stories of other dog walkers over the past three who own those new builds not good. They put huge sign up recently on the main road to the site that said five star home builders. With big gold stars. Oh how i laughed. 🇬🇧
How do these get signed off!? What are the repercussions for these builders?
none ...the home owners wont be able to afford the legal fees to chase them down
3:18 That is "schock-a-lock-a-lockin" - that'll do for me. Looks like some of my best early DIY.
Excellent work exposing these scumbags. I bought a new build but have an extensive construction background - long story short I forced the builder to spend over £150k putting everything right. They dragged their heels for 4 years but eventually got it all done
What about the quality control housing inspectors that come round to the property, aren't they supposed to "inspect" the property whilst its being constructed and when completed ?
I fitted a new light in my living room - turned the ground floor lights off at the circuit breaker and climbed the ladder etc. Then was knocked off the ladder having received a shock. Checked the breaker again, definitely off. line was still live. they had wired my house Front half and back half and still labelled the breaker box up and down. I was already waiting for the electrician to fix the switches as I could turn the living room light on/off every time I used the kitchen light switch. Following week there was a loud bang from upstairs. I went up to find my sons bedroom had a hole from floor to ceiling in the corner that I could fit my fist in. I spent the next week in a hotel and moved all my stuff out - I handed the house back after speaking to my mortgage lender and their financial team I got a refund plus compensation etc. The hole had appeared in the neighbouring house as well. they also handed their house back and the pair were demolished and re built. I now live in a solid house built in 1953. Never again will I live in a new build.
Good for you mate, but for God's sake, if you work on electrics again, use a multimeter and confirm safe isolation!
Safe isolation, your own fault.
@@elwittinio2865 Didn't say it wasn't. My comment was on the absolute shit quality of todays building that seems to somehow be acceptable!
I use to install flooring, one customer flipped houses , new furnace waterheater air-conditioning all the major things new paint and flooring, I once walked into a house they flipped and said you built a closet in the bedroom? And he said yes wondering how I knew since I hadn't walked into the bedroom I said it's the only square wall in the place, from the floor to the ceiling the house was leaning about 2 or 3 inches. They sold it contract for deed.
A few years ago a new build bungalow at Hartford Hall Estate, Bedlington had been completed with no damp course installed. The old bloke that bought it was distraught after damp crept up the internal walls in five months. The builder conveniently went bankrupt on a Friday and started trading again on the following Monday under his wife's name. Wansbeck council had to pay for the remedial works as their "Building Inspector" had signed off that the damp course was "satisfactory" when in fact he had never paid the site a visit. I have read that he moved on not long after the problem came to light.
Another recent build at Malvins Close, Blyth had houses built on a filled in railway cutting that had had the embankments "reinforced" with Japanese knotweed as was common with the railway companies many years ago. The "builder" (and I use that title very loosely) used clay to a depth of three metres to "keep it at bay".
Well the clay will most likely do that at least until the ten year NHBC guarantee expires, then the darling little knotweed shoots will start popping up through the concrete living room floors to announce to the world that the clay did not kill or stop it.
I’m flabbergasted! I seem to remember that the advice was to not buy a new build because of the “teething” problems, but this lot is more like rotten teeth!
The abolition of apprenticeships by Mrs thatcher, deemed as too costly, and time consuming in the 80s. Along with cheap foreign labour. This signed the death nell in the building trade. Here's a prime example.
Future governments, including Blair, just added to this decline in quality built homes.
it's not the abolition of apprenticeships that's the problem. Clever kids don't come into construction trades anymore because it is hard work and you need to graft for your money.....this has effectively weakened the construction genepool so this is what you are left with.
My detached house was built in 1998 using a private well established builder, it took a year to build virtually snag free, these companies put them up in weeks. Can’t be done.
I m a commercial plumber/pipefitter. A number of years ago I had to do some new build houses. The standard of work from every trade was embarrassing.
I once on a site sat & watched a carpenter with a £500 compound mitre saw waste about 100m of architrave trying to cut 2x 45 degree cuts, i left to return the following day to find the 1st floor with a set 3 degrees out on each cut & the other 6 floors just butted square on. I could have made those cuts with nothing more than a bevel, hand saw, pencil & a scrap bit of paper, it would have taken 30 seconds not the 2 or so hours i witnessed.
All the guilds are gone now, i can't remember the last time i see a member of master builders "tradesman", cheap labour & unskilled workers = fubar builds.
You’re a wanker for not offering to help then
There is a new estate near me and within a year they are rebuilding walls and raking out cement because it is incorrect. I wouldn't buy a new build. The problem is this has been going on for years and hasn't got any better.
Its like this everywhere and has everything to do with parents telling their kids theyll never amount to anything if they dont go to college.
I feel ashamed as a joiner and almost want to apologize for that horrendous work
How anyone can walk away thinking they've done a good job is beyond me, imported cheap labour, unrealistic deadlines and cost is at the root of all these mistakes, I see it every day on site.
Have some pride ffs!
Here is a tip for anyone thinking about purchasing a new build property.....DON'T DO IT.
👍 bang right !
Mad until recently I assumed new builds would be the best purchase as they were more 'up to date'. My dad's finished a new build... I might go round with spirit level and make my own vid hahs
@@pointoflight2914 buy a plot of land and commission your own builders, there are hundreds of quality independent house builders and you won't find them house bashing on building sites
@@monday7150 that's also expensive and not that simple
@@jhaych but you get what you want and not a box on an estate full of other boxes that all look the same and have the build quality of an Afghan hut
Jeez this makes me.wish someone had come round our property, we did a complete renovation with underpinning (pretty much new build) and things are as shocking as this
Absolutely shocking!
However we recently bought a new build from a developer with a very bad reputation, but to be fair to them, they have cleaned up their act and we have had very few snagging issues, and the standard of workmanship has been mostly excellent with none of the issues I've seen in videos like this one.
Where there have been minor issues, they fixed them within ba few days
The tragic thing (for those asking 'why do people buy these?') it's because the developers rely on selling people desperate for housing a 'cheap' house off plan. These buyers rarely know what they're talking about when it comes to any aspect of house building and likely don't see much of the property before move in day by which point the developer has thier money and any issues are hard to rectify. It's not limited to cheaper houses either. A long while ago when I was a mover I moved a couple into a brand new high value executive house (they were both senior doctors). The entire place was riddled with poor fit and finish, half the sockets didn't work, the downstairs loo didn't flush and the kitchen island worktop (which was a solid slab of granite) wasn't fastened down.
ppl ..that buy this type of property want a property that you open the suitcase and move into a brand new completed property..to the untrained eye the property looks amazing..
everyone involved, apart from the customer, benefits from the sale going smoothly don't they. so it just gives through and the customer ends up with a crap house but the solicitor, estate agent etc etc all get their money no problem xD
There's a snobbery attached with having a "brand new" house. I saw through it years ago, my wife always talked about it but I've worked in enough of them to know what half arsed crap they are. In addition to being soulless boxes. Would not in a million years buy off plan. Much much rather buy something old and run down and spend a few years renovating it, then move on to the next one.
@@goodlookinouthomie1757 Little boxes on the hillside,little boxes made of ticky-tacky .................................
We can thank Tony Blair for this. It was his Govt that stated an intention of sending 50% of 18 year olds to University ( up from 15%)....the result is tens of thousands of young men who do not want to do apprenticeships in building, but would rather have 3 years at University - and racking up £50k of debt into the bargain. So we have cheap, unskilled Foreign 'skilled' labour filling the gaps - or Not, as the case may be. Another scandal in the offing, courtesy of New Labour ( policies that have continued under the so-called Conservatives)
So true....and then we're forced to take in cheap foreign labour, the attack on the West is endless
This is pretty much it. Two thirds of population growth in the UK is immigration. That's why we need to throw up so many of these half arsed overpriced dumps. You ask yourself who's even buying these shitty houses? Well its the middle classes fleeing from the cities as they fill up with the fucking third world. Funny thing is they are attracted to the idea of a new build. My wife always wanted one but we could never afford it thank fuck for that, we did up a few old places and moved on each time. I've known about the quality of these new estates for 15 years.
@@goodlookinouthomie1757 Spot on. My house was newly built in 2000, and I've been happy. My mate bought a 4 bed brand new one in 2019 and it's dire. What changed in those two decades !? Ah yes,vTony Blair's Open Borders of 2004. Britain the multicultural hellhole, with disasterous side effects wherever you look.
We had the same with Charles church homes, moved in nov 5th 2021 , lights haging down on wires toilets plumbed in wrong and now three houses have to be demolished and rebuilt, people in them , home passed by inspectors. . Back handers here’s. They won’t help after they have your money.
I'm in the gas industry, other thing I see constantly is boilers and consumer units on adjacent walls really close. Should be Min 150mm