Another call for house building

Graham_Devon

Dado rails? Are you stuck in 1993?

Anyway, wouldn't new homes have most of that stuff? My dad was in the new build business for 20+ years, and if they wanted to keep their warranty, they were not supposed to paint or do anything like you have said for at least 2 years.

If a purchaser painted a wall and then complained that the plaster was coming off, there would be no warranty claim.

Gardening etc, you may have a point. The rest of your stuff is pretty much already there in a new build.....bar the dado rail of course.

A._Badger

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Dado rails? Are you stuck in 1993?

Anyway, wouldn't new homes have most of that stuff? My dad was in the new build business for 20+ years, and if they wanted to keep their warranty, they were not supposed to paint or do anything like you have said for at least 2 years.

If a purchaser painted a wall and then complained that the plaster was coming off, there would be no warranty claim.

Gardening etc, you may have a point. The rest of your stuff is pretty much already there in a new build.....bar the dado rail of course.

Read an annual report from any of the DIY sheds. They boom in periods of high house sales and slump when the market falls back.

The man from Essex has it 100 per cent right.

Loughton_Monkey

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Dado rails? Are you stuck in 1993?..

Each to their own.

You are missing the point, that it is well known that a significant proportion of B&Q/Homebase customers have just bought a new house.

Graham_Devon

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

Each to their own.

You are missing the point, that it is well known that a significant proportion of B&Q/Homebase customers have just bought a new house.

I would agree for second hand sales etc. Just not sure that new build houses would create a huge demand for B&Q and the like.

Loughton_Monkey

Graham_Devon wrote: »

I would agree for second hand sales etc. Just not sure that new build houses would create a huge demand for B&Q and the like.

OK, Graham, I give in. Here's my public apology:

It has come to my attention that I may inadvertantly given the impression that B&Q customers contain a positively skewed proportion of New Home buyers.

I now realise that this statement does not contain a grain of truth, and that any reference to B&Q Chief Ian Cheshire being a publicity-seeking, money grabbing, self-interested ramper of New House Building was wrong. He is (I learn) selflessly advocating more New House Building knowing what a huge negative impact it will have on his empire and its profits.

I would ask everyone to lobby the Palace for a knighthood for him, thanks to his tireless devotion to the wider community despite it not having an ounce of benefit to him personally.

Graham_Devon

Nice bit of sarcasm.

To wind you up a bit more....never stated it would have a negative impact...and I don't think it would. I simply disagreed with you that new homes would create growth for B&Q. I don't think it would.

Make of that whatever you like with the sarcyness!

Loughton_Monkey

Graham_Devon wrote: »

.......Make of that whatever you like with the sarcyness!

Sarcasm, I find, tends to lose its edge the minute you introduce the whole truth.

But sadly I went wrong this time by being truthful....

http://www.countrywide.co.uk/media/press-release.aspx?id=bc617e96-cae9-4872-b668-30b8d74bf813

13th April 2012

The latest YouGov survey conducted by Countrywide, the UK's largest estate agency and property services Group, has uncovered that 34% of new homeowners spend more than £7,500 on home improvements and refurbishments in the first two years of moving in.

wymondham

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Dado rails? Are you stuck in 1993?

Anyway, wouldn't new homes have most of that stuff? My dad was in the new build business for 20+ years, and if they wanted to keep their warranty, they were not supposed to paint or do anything like you have said for at least 2 years.

If a purchaser painted a wall and then complained that the plaster was coming off, there would be no warranty claim.

Gardening etc, you may have a point. The rest of your stuff is pretty much already there in a new build.....bar the dado rail of course.

anyone who has moved into a new home will know that you need to buy filler by the bucket load as the stairs/window sills etc are still shrinking as they fit them before they are ready.. and you need to paint as the coat put on by builders can be measured in thousanths of a micro and peels when you look at in...

Graham_Devon

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

Sarcasm, I find, tends to lose its edge the minute you introduce the whole truth.

But sadly I went wrong this time by being truthful....

http://www.countrywide.co.uk/media/press-release.aspx?id=bc617e96-cae9-4872-b668-30b8d74bf813

Jeez.

This is about new builds.

A new homeowner does not have to have bought a new build.

IveSeenTheLight

PaulF81 wrote: »

i personally think relaxed planning laws for self build is the solution. more investment in local trade as opposed to the big national home builders

Easier access to land would certainly help