Builder cancelled reservation

neverdespairgirl

chickmug wrote: »

I was in new homes for many years and even then they, and the plots, were so small and getting smaller. As for FTB homes they became a joke - 3 bed semis, 2 bed terraces, then 1 bed terraces, then studios - crammed in and always with as little parking as you could fight the panning system for. UGH, UGH & UGH. I found the pressure/excuse for building these came from having to pay high land prices.

The room sizes just look so cramped to me - 2 adults, a double bed, and the minimum of bedroom furniture (you have to keep your clothes somewhere!) and there will be no floor left.

tomstickland

Totall random and sorry to be negative, but this picture shouts "1970s" to me.
Was it designed by committee with 50% wanting it rendered, 25% clad and 25% rendered?

ginvzt

I 'like' the tiny balcony looking on the street!!!!! What are you going to use it for? I agree, if it was to the garden, I wouldn't mind to go out and sit down with a book, but in this case I would have rather had a bigger room...

tomstickland

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wymondham

I've often thought that why do builders put wood up on houses as it's a nightmare for upkeep?? at least these are normal colours, round our way there is an estate that looks like balamory - maybe people have real trouble remembering where they live and blue/pink and green houses help on this???

chickmug

wymondham wrote: »

I've often thought that why do builders put wood up on houses as it's a nightmare for upkeep?? at least these are normal colours, round our way there is an estate that looks like balamory - maybe people have real trouble remembering where they live and blue/pink and green houses help on this???

Even worse was the Mock Tudor often only to the front gables. Always looked like a modern house with bits put on but which soon starting falling off though. Then the leaded gals windows!!! Lead strips stuck on the glass (front side only) looking really hideous.

guppy

chickmug wrote: »

I found the pressure/excuse for building these came from having to pay high land prices.

In fairness to builders, the Government have demanded higher density development through the planning system too.

Also, if people are stupid enough to snap up cramped new builds at high pricies, builders will keep building them.

Debt_Free_Chick

wymondham wrote: »

I've often thought that why do builders put wood up on houses as it's a nightmare for upkeep??

Weatherboarding the upper elevations is "the norm" in many parts of Kent & Sussex.

Just about all the properties in the village where I live are weatherboarded - including one built in the 1970s which has nasty UPVC weatherboarding and that's in an AONB! :eek: