rubbish property developers - i hate my house

[southeastastra]

some fecking idiot bought it for tuppence then don't it up to the lowest standards possible. roof needs re-doing, boiler keeps breaking, floorboards uneven, toilet impossible to fix more and more problems.

please if you're going to do up a house for profit make a good job of it please

Oh no!

Our previous house was the same - daft woman had 'done it up' and did all the plumbing herself (we found out afterwards!). She'd fixed a drainpipe to the back of the toilet rather than a U bend - plumber was in stitches (not so us I might add!!)..

Hope Sarah Beeny has managed to put a few other idiots off this property development lark by now!

oh dear mine isn't that bad, thank the lord, that really is something

Didn't the survey identify all these problems?

We had this too - so many short cuts had been taken, pipe repaired with white tape caused £k's to find and fix all the damage the leak caused. Dodgy gas fittings, kitchen not finished off properly - only discovered when we opened the cupboards...makes you weep. Survey found nothing and had loads of disclaimers.

I think it's utterly immoral. I think that if a new-build has to carry a 10-year warranty, then properties that have been significantly renovated should come with some sort of guarantee as well.

New builds don't have a warranty. It's an insurance policy the builder takes out. there is an index-linked excess so if (like us) you were thinking of claiming for a floor laid over gas pipes and not laid around the pipes, it would cost a minimum of £2.5k in excess.

(Now that's off my chest) I agree, perhaps developers who have increased the value by a certain % should have to also take out the same insurance.

The NHBC, which is the most popular scheme, call it a warranty and I know people who have claimed on it with no financial cost to themselves but an awful lot of to-ing and fro-ing.

Sorry for your trouble.