New Build Nightmares - ITV Tonight - 5/9/19 

Cleaning out your own sh*t is one thing, having to clear your neighbours floaters is another.

New builds are shocking , but…. You can spend the same or more on a older house and trust me they are also riddled with problems !

All new builds should have a money hold back scheme from A NON BIASED organisation,that holds back 30 % of money from builders for 6 months ,giving the new owner a chance and Faults are rectified before final payment . That would make these builders do a proper job .

I spoke to a builder with over 30 years experience. He told me they are built to a timescale so they are just thrown up!!!! I’ve got a 1935 semi detached which needs a few jobs doing to it but it’s beautiful!!

A niece of mine bought a house in Oxford from one of the biggest builders mentioned here there was so much wrong with it she sold it without even moving in. Believe me this is just the tip of the iceberg absolute crap!Philw

The builders have no sense of pride in their work. It is just rush rush rush. They built 1000s of Victorian homes with less technology and they have lasted over 100 years. The finishing work is terrible in the UK these days. The only solution is for people to refuse paying for the property off plan before it is built and only buy property once it is already been built. That way they will be forced to do it right.

If it was not built to fire code why hasn’t the developer been forced to pay? Get rid of leasehold too.

Watching from Denmark this is shocking. Why have standards fallen so low in the U.K. ?

Half million pound house in Ebbsfleet , wow , 20 years ago you could have bought EBBSFLEET for that price ,

The reasons for all of this are perfectly simple. Take the smallest possible plot of land, the cheapest possible materials, the cheapest possible fixtures and fittings, use the maximum number of shortcuts, and employ tradesmen on ridiculously low-paid price-per-item work so that the only way they can earn a living is to throw everything together as fast as possible. Example = Bovis and Persimmon both pay joiners just £20 to hang a door, including trimming to fit what's usually a badly aligned and out-of-true MDF frame, cutting out rebates and mortises for hinges and locks, and fitting all of the hardware. The only way that guy's going to feed his family is to bodge in 8-10 of these per day. Result = huge profits for the developers and their shareholders, and a generation of fleeced homeowners living in something which is little short of a prefab. The Victorians built vast numbers of houses - most of which are still standing after 100+ years and will, in all probability, last at least another 100. Can anyone imagine this modern-day cardboard, plastic and MDF crap lasting that long ?? Posted by an ex-site work carpenter.

It’s not just the UK it’s everywhere. Where I live in a hour outside of Vancouver Canada new builds are put up in record time. Even my untrained eye can see shoddy workmanship when I walk buy. I bought into a building that was 16 years old. My inspector said my building was very well done and he didn’t see good workmanship anymore.

My mum got a new build from the council completed by a developer called Hill. Within a few days of moving in sewage flooded from the drains into her garden. There’s cracks all over the walls. The turf also was laid poorly and it died. She said she’s lucky as she got support from the council but she said she felt sorry for those who spent money on these properties.

Mould doesn't grow with the cold, it grows in warm and damp conditions. Damp ingress from poorly fit lintels and seals is what causes mould

Drain should work and not need to be cleaned out all the time.

I feel the second half of this was an ad. The damp. How will it handle the damp?

My 1882 terrace house still going strong.

All that matters is they rectify it. How many of the 300 problems were the roof issue? 75? New homes have to be built. Why so far behind? People are barely having kids. Surely you could have planned.

Home settle that first year. Problems after moving in can be as simple as a drawer pull missing and quickly fixed. The ten year problems are what is worrying. You can build a sound home quickly. Where are the people checking on the build as it’s happening? They build homes quickly in the 40’s.

Modular housing is quicker and cheaper to build he says. What's the betting the cost of those houses won't be any lower.

They talk about creating a homes ombudsman, but the other ombudsmans don't seem to be effective. I have found them to be biased, ineffective peopled by employees who lack communication skills.

Doesn’t the bank require an inspection before they close? Surely big stuff sorted out.

If you want a new house build it yourself.

each house should be passed of at each stage o the build by an independent surveyor

The standard of build and the materials used are just shoddy in new builds. I have a work colleague who paid nearly double the price for a new build with only 2 bedrooms and just parking space for his car than I did for my 50s built semi with three bedrooms and a 70ft driveway which ends with a garage. We only live about 1.5 miles from each other. If they redeveloped the land my house sits on then they would build three or four new builds on it, with no gardens and all overlooking each other.

Ive got a mid terraced built in 1863 .For over 50 years there have been problems with Severn Trent Water Ltd relating to Hydraulic lift due to build up of debri in there main sewer. All they want to do is find rediculas suposed technical reasons to defer maintence costs.They also bully people over legal cases through legal technicality. Oh some new builds have similar issues along with other places having historic hydraulic lift blowing heavy road covers off and causing flooding.

New build dont touch em unless you want a world of grief. As for a payment retention the builder will just pass this onto the subcontractor who will just not be able to afford this. This will cause the subcontractor to not take on new build projects leaving the main builder no option but to use non skilled overseas personnel. This will only make the problem worse.

Where is the architect and Building Control?

The big house builders buy cheap just to maximise profits, the executives of these company’s want them up quickly and on time, so they get paid their bonuses, they and their shareholders have no other concern then maximising their profit return, which in this country, is considerable.

Price work causes this if everyone was paid hourly they’d all be up to a better standard

...and yet people throw their money at these firms. As for buying a leasehold property its just stupid. I figured that out even as a teen when I first heard about it.

Nor would I touch a New home all you have today is to look at the quality of builds in the North Prospect, Southway, Sherford, and Derriford in Plymouth, and take a listen to what these people are saying about living in an apartment in a tower block and what your responsibility is for the maintenance and upkeep of the building

Astonishing and unjust.

I plaster new builds as a living get shy of £1000 pound for a house that sells for 500 k have to work like a dog to make that in a week you have to rush and get it done every other trade the same all price work off course you will cut corners to make a living , who is getting all the money ? ??? Not me !!!!!

How do these builders not have a conscious? I couldn’t build something that unsafe and sleep at night without worrying what if a family died because of me and cheapness.

Modular is not the answer. The answer is to build like our ancestors. Solid quality homes that last generations, modular has a shelf life half, if not a quarter, of a good quality traditional building. The issue here is more stringent checks. People like your surveyor should be independently employed to check new builds at every stage. The nhbc don’t pay enough or have enough staff to do this job. There needs to be independent inspections by qualified, educated trade specific specialists at every stage of a build. I’m a bricklayer and I walked away from the industry because of the shoddy work and attitudes of people working on these new builds. The developers and site managers are pretty much useless and many of them don’t even know what they are doing. It’s their job as things stand to recognise and deal with these issues. Says it all really. 50-100k a year for a site manager.

I work on new build houses. Nhbc are in with the builders and will turn a blind eye to a lot of things. Independent snaggers although sometimes are over keen are the way forward. Most newbuilds will have minor issues though it is normal for a crack in plaster or a door to move slightly once you move in and have the heating on or changes of seasons. On all the sites I work on drains seem to be a huge issue though. I see whole streets affected by just 1 joint being missed and the drainage guys seem to not be the brightest

We don’t need more houses, we need LESS IMMIGRANTS. This is simple supply and demand. R

Oh and where is a new reservoir for these new house instead of telling people they can't use the water there paying for

how can a plan be built upside down? you're just facing the wrong way to the house

The slums of next week, never mind in 10 years.

The Sales Team are your Best friends and the Site Manager also until they have your money, and you start having to complain about your snags, you feel isolated and the only one on the whole site Complaining your told , I really do not know how they sleep at night

Me looking at my £27,000 in my emergency fund 💀💀

What amazes me is why people still buy them? My son is buying one and I have done my best to try and persuade him not to. The guarantees are not worth the paper they are written on.

Couldn’t think anything worse than living in a new build box ! All the same - can reach out of house window and touch next door ! Seems to be a snob value of detached over older terraced / would much rather have a 30 year old house that is built properly - same with cars ! Drive a Saab Aero convertible 2005 - all the depreciation gone See so many detached boxes with new cars on the drive ! All trying to impress the neighbours 😱

Up until the 50s homes where built to last

Don't think you need a so called expert to see that loo seat is loose lol!!!!

12:30 if the developer is out of business and the warantee doesnt exist, who are the leaseholders paying their ground rent to? And why does the taxpayer always have to foot the bill for business' catastrophic mistakes?

leasehold should be illegal for any new properties build.. it is just a scam that can ruis people's life

In Malaysia Chinese would not move into a new house because of ghosts perhaps they knew something ???

Why, why, why can these developers not build correctly? They would save face far better than doing so many botched jobs.

'Super snagger' heading up his ladder with no ppe, very 'professional'.

If sorting out problems really were a builder's priority they wouldn't be allowed to build a single new home anywhere until they put right the issues they've already been alerted to...they'd be bust and out of work top to bottom in months...and a bloody good thing too...who else get's well paid for doing bugger all right? Yeah well, parliament, but that aside...

why do you keep doing close ups of the shit hahahahaha

These need some help

When you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

360 snags. 340 will be the tiniest of paint snags and mortar snags. 18 will be stuff you could consider a defect which you could probably repair. 2, might, be justifiable issues. These companies are a con. They bring these big numbers to make people think they spent the £600 they charge well. Then they will tell their friends how many issues they have and say they should do it too. RIP off

major impuct

The 20K snag will not destroy their future. They have a valuable property.

They should have a lifetime guarantee

I would never buy a new-build property, even if somebody paid my deposit! It looks like too much of a headache.