Found this in my 4 year old house...

[Midwest]

Navy solution...
if it moves, grease it
if it doesn't, paint it
and everything else...earth it

has anyone else noticed the high level of sediment in Tesco's Duoro?
(Tried to upload a pic, but "an error occurred"...doh!)

Dunno, don't shop in Tesco's, other than to get petrol and the other forms of derived liquid

 

[pirate]

Tesco is not my nearest, Waitrose is...but when I look at the prices, I feel unwell!
Not that I'm a cheapskate...

(No! He's certainly not! ...Pirate's wife...)

Did you see what I did there?
LOL!

 

[a-z electrics]

I think I would have been tempted to replace the double gang back box with a larger adaptable box seeing as a larger hole been made and painted to match.. but what a terrible indictment on modern builders! I don't know how some people sleep at night..

 

[a-z electrics]

I am afraid it is caveat emptor when purchasing a house. Any defect not picked up during a survey (you did have a survey?) may be actionable depending on what level of survey you had.

Don't new houses have a 10 year warranty? Also, it would be interesting to see how your neighbors garages have been wired..

 

[Squid]

Don't new houses have a 10 year warranty? Also, it would be interesting to see how your neighbors garages have been wired..

How do you think he got the lawn mower, leaf blower and shredder as well as the beers the neighbours have been hiding in their sheds from their wives..........

 

[Toneyz]

I think that the NHBC/1o year warranty only applies to structural elements of the house.Can someone explain SWD's post?

 

[Midwest]

Can someone explain SWD's post?

Only buzzlightyear would be able to do that. Never see those two in the same room

 

[Leyland30]

OP I would put your concerns in writing to The NHBC complete with original picture and any details you have regards the builder / contractor. The’re obliged to keep a record and might investigate, especially if they have had similar issues reported.

Regards recouping your costs, give resolver a try - google it.

 

[pirate]

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...so, we have a system that tries to fix a problem that should never have arisen in the first place...building houses in places where they should not have been built without extra groundworks.

 

[Squid]

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.......

 

[Midwest]

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]

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]

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]

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.

 

[EalingBadger]

Apropos of Wagos and 6mm - Wago have just released a couple of new 221 series doobries that accept 6mm. (The kind people at Wago sent me an email on the subject only 2 hours ago.)

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