Does anyone want to join me waiting for new build to be built and complete

kirtsypoos

I will certainly not be rushing to buy and sell again at any point in the future :rotfl:

Ours was easy compared to some of the horror stories we have heard on here but still stressful. We also had to be out of our previous home and at the new one for key release at 2pm, which, coupled with a removals van which was 2 hours late, was quite nerve wracking!

I'm just so relieved it's all done though Utterly in love with the new house, and with a couple of small exceptions (carpet colour is the big one, we picked a ridiculous colour considering the house is on a building site!) I wouldn't change a thing

Exciting for you ap1985, it's an amazing feeling when you shut the door on the removals people/helpful family and realise it's all yours (and the mortgage companies... ) and that no one else has lived there, cooked dinner there, showered there etc

ap1985

Thanks Kirstypoos. Yes the feeling of having a brand new house is definitely something else and I look forward to getting the keys

Glad you love your new house

emmahayward89

We're finally in too!

We've had some pretty major problems, and I'm a bit disappointed overall as its taken the excitement of it all out of it!

When we arrived at the house having collected the keys, it wasn't clean, there was old coffee cups and builders tools everywhere. They had drilled a few new holes and just left the dust on our carpet.

They also hadn't been able to fit kitchen cupboard on some of our integrated appliances.

Our front door glass is all cracked, our towel rails don't work and the heating on our middle floor doesn't work either.

They failed to take out the transportation bolts out of our washing machine, so at 2am one morning our washing machine was bouncing around the kitchen and smashed into cupboards, ruining the cupboards we did have fitted!

Then finally, they forgot to attached the sewerage vent properly, so our loft stunk of sewerage and as a result we have a lot of flies in the house!

All annoying things and we get the response 'Oh no, they forgot to do that on Plot 123 as well' I just think, if they managed to do it on one plot, maybe check the same things on the next ones you release?

We're also still having the OpenReach/Sky/Barratts battle where everyone is saying they are waiting for the other people to get things done.

However all the problems aside, I sat in the bath last night and thought at least I own it! and I'm the first person in it! We've bought a big house, so will last us a really long time, thank god because I wont be rushing to go through the process all over again!

kirtsypoos

That sounds awful emmahayward, sorry it's taken the shine off it for you.

The openreach/sky/persimmon (in our case) drove me round the bend and I cancelled sky and went with virgin fibre with no line (£18 a month) guess who turned up the next day to connect the openreach cables?! :mad: Very annoying when I now have to wait for 21st Jan for fibre but at least it will be quicked than the 2MBps we were told by sky

pinktortilla

Thought I would come back and give reflection of my new build!
We finally got in on the 30th of September with notice and completion in the space of two hours because my rental agreement was up on the 3rd of October and I would've been homeless (living 500 miles away from family!!).
Got in after the builder waited past his 3pm Friday finish to 5pm to throw the keys at me and let me get on with it. No home tour and absolutely no documents. I have a snag list 2/3 pages of A4 long and have still had no one to come and even look (although a lot of promises!!).
I've had a leaking toilet from the start, I ran a bath and water poured from the ceiling because no one sealed it! I've still had no documents at all (including anything for the gas or the electic....). There is only one street light in the development, with 7 houses now occupied. They've only just done my front garden! The house is lovely and I think I'm really lucky but the developer has been absolutely disgusting to have to deal with.

On a positive note, the Internet was done within a week and the bins were delivered really quickly. The sales staff were nothing but fantastic and they did pass on information even when it turned out they were also lied to.

I wish everyone else all the luck and exchange ASAP

Graciepie88

Hello everyone,

Happy New Year and congratulations to all of you who completed on or around Christmas! I hope you're all enjoying your new homes (snags aside).

We finally completed on our purchase today and picked the keys up this afternoon. We've already emailed off a list of snags to the site office, nothing major just a lot of chips and bits which haven't perhaps been finished to the best standard. The site manager said that they will have someone in there tomorrow or Friday to sort out what they can, so here's hoping!

Still feels a bit surreal at the moment that we now own a house, probably because i'm currently in our rental flat as we have an overlap so decided not to rush moving.

Going to hopefully get cutrain poles sorted at the weekend and the carpets/flooring are being fitted on Monday and Tuesday of next week.

Feel like a proper adult now :-D

clur84

Hello (waves)

Can I please 'hopefully' join in? I say hopefully as we are at the very start of the whole process.

We have found a new build we love, our potential first home as a little family of 4. It is on offer under the local councils affordable homes scheme. We have a decision in principle for the mortgage so just waiting on the council accepting our application to put a reserve on the plot.

Has anyone else bought a new build through an affordable housing scheme?

Also jumping ahead of myself but are there rule around decorating etc with the walls only just being built and plastered? I was thinking more things like attaching curtain poles, attaching cupboards to the walls in the childrens rooms etc.

kirtsypoos

clur84 wrote: »

Hello (waves)

Also jumping ahead of myself but are there rule around decorating etc with the walls only just being built and plastered? I was thinking more things like attaching curtain poles, attaching cupboards to the walls in the childrens rooms etc.

Hi Clur84 Good luck!

We have put curtain poles up but we had to use special metal plasterboard screws, which have now been used to put everything in the house up :rotfl:

clur84

Thanks kirstpoos

Sue_S

Great thread! A bit of advice on extras please. We've just reserved a plot on a Bloor development - wouldn't budge on price and no extras :sad: We're waiting on prices for flooring but were wondering if there's a problem with having tiles fitted in the bathrooms after the bath/toilet/basin have been fitted by the builder? Shouldn't the tiles go under them?

Also, we're looking at having heated towel rails. If we don't pay for them as extras I think there will be a problem fitting them later as the electricity won't be there. Has anyone else done this?