New homes 'crumbling due to weak mortar'

sal_III

TW_Weak_Mortar wrote: »

It may not be the end of the world to you, however Taylor Wimpey have denied and knocked this back for over 18 months and denied and lied of their use of weak mortar on our Estate in the Scottish Borders. Mortar testing, structural engineers and solicitors do not come cheap and they will not refund our fees incurred for exposing them, costing us in excess of £11,500 in specialist and solicitors so far, despite us proving what they have done. Had we not exposed them, the estimates for repointing our house which I can assure you, is crumbling, is in the region of £45,000/£50,000 if we had to do this ourselves, do you still think its not the end of the world to average working couple? I am one of those directly affected and yes it was my house and the video of me pulling a cable tie out of one of the very many holes in my home that was on the Victoria Derbyshire programme and I do know what I am talking about. Dont even suggest the NHBC, they do not assist the majority of homeowners, particularly in our case as its a very expensive problem for them with over 100 houses badly affected.

£45-50k is the cost of material and labour to build an average 2bed house from the ground up. Whole house, so I don't know where did you come up with that number for repointing.

First hit in google suggests something in the region of £3k for semi.

And you only have to pay for all this if the issue occurred after the 10 year warranty.

Legal cover add-on for Building insurance is like £15/year it's a no-brainer.