issue with new build

Zales200483

I have no problem with naming the company - it is Keepmoat

Zales200483

Can anyone recommend Chartered building surveyor from South/West Yorkshire area?

Furts

Zales200483 wrote: »

I have no problem with naming the company - it is Keepmoat

The name has cropped up over the years - I cannot recall ever hearing anything positive about them.

Zales200483

And it appears that rightly so.

GDB2222

Zales200483 wrote: »

Can anyone recommend Chartered building surveyor from South/West Yorkshire area?

I think this is pretty straightforward stuff. Just get someone in, rather than worrying too much about getting the best possible person.

J_B

GDB2222 wrote: »

I think this is pretty straightforward stuff. Just get someone in, rather than worrying too much about getting the best possible person.

Surely, it was 'pretty straightforward' for the builders to do the job properly in the first place

May as well find someone decent.

Zales200483

Well, it is not so straightforward to find someone decent as all of them are brilliant according to their websites;-)
I will have a look, anyone from Yorkshire who can recommend decent surveyor?

Furts

Zales200483 wrote: »

A bit of update folks. Got a phone call from customer service saying that they are preparing written plan of action etc. The only issue i can foresee is that they will try to address my concerns lfor instance the issue with breaking through foundation without proper professionals involved( structural engineer or building inspector) and make site manager to vouch for the method which i obviously wont accept.
I guess we are going to see tomorrow.

The Site Manager is likely to be a complete idiot, who has no interest in your issues, and is not qualified to design, inspect or oversee your remedial works. But even if you deem this opinion harsh - it is based on years of experience with house builders - ponder over the following .... If the Site Manager had any interest in management, in control, in Inspection, in Buildings Regulations, in testing and in snagging then your drainage problem would never have occurred.

Now ponder long and hard. I have listed six fundamental tick boxes for the role of any house building Site Manager. Your site Manager has failed to score on any of these boxes. View it like this - your Site Manager is a zero out of sixer. This in turn means not only are they an idiot, as stated earlier, but they are also incompetent. It follows that if they are incompetent the Chief Executive of Keepmoat should be thinking ..."Why am I employing an incompetent idiot?"

Were you to obtain the personal contact details for the Chief Exec and register a formal, written, complaint you might then find your complaint is escalated and given the attention it deserves. The flip side is your failure to do so would be a sign of weakness ...you can see where I am coming from!

As I have said you have to fight fire with fire. Having an ars-hole running a housing site is no good to man nor beast.

Furts

Just in case any consumers ever do a search of the archives, I refer back to #20

KEEPMOAT REFUSED TO ALLOW THE PURCHASER TO PERSONALLY FINANCE AND INSTRUCT A SNAGGING INSPECTION OF THEIR NEW HOME.

What does this say for Keepmoat and the quality of their new build homes?

Zales200483

Quick question, although it is not yet official, the builder proposal is to install outside gully and in that way reconnect the drains. I am a bit dubious about it as firstly it will spoil the look of the property, secondly they will have to go through wall to get the pipe out and i will still be left with original pipe going all way down through the floor . ~i assume that they will close it somehow but still i dont know how i feel about it. To add insult to injury i know absolutely nothing about drains etc. Any thoughts???