Found this in my 4 year old house...

Midwest · Mar 31, 2018

SWD said:
Jeeeez you Northerners are a bit slow on the uptake........

He already knows the neighbours garage instals as when he moved in he had a "rummage" in the neighbours garages when they where asleep.......

Who's that statement attributed too, your or buzz?

Squid · Mar 31, 2018

Midwest said:
Who's that statement attributed too, your or buzz?

Northerners, someone from Oxford should know they are slow on the update as they are still working to the 15th Ed........

johnduffell · Apr 2, 2018

pirate said:
NHBC 10 year warranty is mainly a joke...it works only if the structural build is so bad that the finished house is so far below par it is in danger of falling down

exactly that, the warranty is literally only to make the houses mortgageable, they don't give away warranties for any other reason but to keep the solicitors happy as they cost money.

same as those stupid indemnities you have to buy when you're selling a house without building regs. The house still doesn't have building regs, but it covers the mortgage company.

pirate · Apr 3, 2018

Except...the indemnity policies are usually pretty worthless, but the lawyers don't read them, and the mortgage companies simply accept the lawyer's Report On Title, and accept the indemnity...but that doesn't release the lawyers from blame if it all goes wrong.

NHBC is required if there isn't an architects certificate on a new house (there are other schemes) and the mortgage companies require one or the other, but from personal experience I can say that making a claim is a long, tortuous and seldom fruitful experience. Sad to say, the majority of new-builds are very poor in so many ways...that's what you get when you pay bottom-dollar to the trades to keep the profit up.