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Back to square one, again :o(
sarah_elton
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After months of looking, finally found a house we thought had potential and were meant to do a second viewing on Sunday. It's on a development that's just over ten years old (i.e. just out of NHBC warranty).
My mum knows someone who lives in the village in question, and they said to be careful because the development had serious subsisdence issues in its first few years (e.g. visible cracks appearing between townhouses :eek:).
We googled around and found this:
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~tamsao/plans/recent/june07/WilsonPresentation%20280607.pdf
Presentation given to residents in 2007 about the work required on the sewer system, which was badly damaged due to the issues. Major sewer repair work carried out in 2008. Anglian Water never adopted the sewer system due to concerns so the builder did these repairs. They now 'hope' the water company will adopt in 6-7 years.
Completely lost faith in the build quality of the houses. Mum's a household insurance underwriter and the area is flagging up as a subsidence risk due to the soil type.
We're going to be sensible and run away fast (might explain why the houses take ages to sell - they have to sell to outsiders as it seems the whole village knows about this!). But it was a huge house and well under our budget (the compromise was teeny tiny garden). We won't get a house that big or nice elsewhere in the village for our money. But, I do want a house where I'm not going to worry about it structurally. :rolleyes:
My mum knows someone who lives in the village in question, and they said to be careful because the development had serious subsisdence issues in its first few years (e.g. visible cracks appearing between townhouses :eek:).
We googled around and found this:
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~tamsao/plans/recent/june07/WilsonPresentation%20280607.pdf
Presentation given to residents in 2007 about the work required on the sewer system, which was badly damaged due to the issues. Major sewer repair work carried out in 2008. Anglian Water never adopted the sewer system due to concerns so the builder did these repairs. They now 'hope' the water company will adopt in 6-7 years.
Completely lost faith in the build quality of the houses. Mum's a household insurance underwriter and the area is flagging up as a subsidence risk due to the soil type.
We're going to be sensible and run away fast (might explain why the houses take ages to sell - they have to sell to outsiders as it seems the whole village knows about this!). But it was a huge house and well under our budget (the compromise was teeny tiny garden). We won't get a house that big or nice elsewhere in the village for our money.
But, I do want a house where I'm not going to worry about it structurally. :rolleyes: 0
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Oh no thats terrible - ur soooooo lucky gettin the heads up on this as i guess it may be missed out if u didnt go for a full structural survery?! (i guess houses which are ten yrs old r considered quite modern).
Hopefully u will find sumat with a bit more garden now
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At least you know the problems and in 6-7 years time if something else cheap comes up you can look again. But agree no point in buying if you can never sell it again.0
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We wouldn't have bothered with a full structural for a ten year old house. The gossip around the village came in very handy.
Yeah, as disappointed as we are, thank god we found out before. It had some compromises so would have been a 5-8 year house, and re-sale was on our mind. This killed it for us!
Going to second view a house I previously dismissed as needing too much work doing. I'm not sure we'd be able to afford to buy it and do all the work required, but we're giving it a second chance then we'll do our sums. 0
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