When the marketing brochure refers to ‘craftsmanship’ and uses the #10yearwarranty as a tool to give new home owners false confidence the truth is never far away.

In this property we have looked at several issues including missing insulation, creaky floors and a live sewer connected and leaking methane gas into the lounge sub structure, all part of the finished project.

Sub standard joinery, paintwork and off plumb mock chimneys are all included in the price and yet another example of poor workmanship lurks beneath the surface.

The electrical feed to a gas boiler is installed unprotected at a 45 degree angle, outside zones and in breach of wiring regulations.

A bargain at £ 185 000

The next episode in this new build will be the showers, where plasterboard was deemed a suitable substrate for tiles in a wet area. They are all leaking, coming apart and causing defects in adjoining rooms and ceilings. All because some ‘value engineer’ thought that it was a good idea to use plasterboard instead of the correct tile backing board.

If this was a school report? #coulddobetter

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