Buying a New Build - Upgrades/Extras

Joyful

I bought a new build. Showers plus TV and internet points in bedrooms and main rooms came as standard. Anything else was chargeable.  As Runningmad says, we got the same answer. As they sold the minute they came out there was no need for fencing, turf or anything else to be given to me. I even had to put drainage in my garden!

Irishpearce26

Greymug said:

RelievedSheff said:

Greymug said:

felicityBD15 said:

These upgrades tend to be for things like flooring, integrated appliances, turfing, additional sockets, tiling the whole height around the bath etc. and the prices can be extortionate! 

I saw a fair amount of new builds when I was looking for a house and I was shocked when quite a few sellers told me that shower fixtures over a bath tub were EXTRAS. If you don't pay for them as extras...they just put a bath tub with taps.

So many new builds like this, they are 2-3 years old, bathrooms still looking good and shiny and yet you'd have to rip them apart just to have a shower. Borderline disgusting.

Our new build doesn't have a shower over the bath in the main bathroom. But we have a huge shower cubicle in the en suite so we really don't need another shower over the bath.

So in the event you have guests staying overnight you let them shower in your en suite?

Very cool.

Well yeah duh! They could always have a bath or you could you know install a shower and bath tap unit for £200/300? Every house is usually built with a bath in the bathroom and a shower in the en-suite, people tend to add a shower to the bathroom for convenience.

People can be really dramatic on this forum.

GDB2222

Irishpearce26 said:

Greymug said:

RelievedSheff said:

Greymug said:

felicityBD15 said:

These upgrades tend to be for things like flooring, integrated appliances, turfing, additional sockets, tiling the whole height around the bath etc. and the prices can be extortionate! 

I saw a fair amount of new builds when I was looking for a house and I was shocked when quite a few sellers told me that shower fixtures over a bath tub were EXTRAS. If you don't pay for them as extras...they just put a bath tub with taps.

So many new builds like this, they are 2-3 years old, bathrooms still looking good and shiny and yet you'd have to rip them apart just to have a shower. Borderline disgusting.

Our new build doesn't have a shower over the bath in the main bathroom. But we have a huge shower cubicle in the en suite so we really don't need another shower over the bath.

So in the event you have guests staying overnight you let them shower in your en suite?

Very cool.

Well yeah duh! They could always have a bath or you could you know install a shower and bath tap unit for £200/300? Every house is usually built with a bath in the bathroom and a shower in the en-suite, people tend to add a shower to the bathroom for convenience.

People can be really dramatic on this forum.

I will probably regret saying this, but it’s years since I last had a bath!

Flugelhorn

bramptonbrew said:

s. We asked if they could install a personnel door in our garage but they said it was something they didn't offer as an option, so we are looking to do that at some point now we are in. 

if the door is from the house into the garage then it can be quite a big deal and can see why the developers weren't interested - probably the old building regs etc 

RelievedSheff

GDB2222 said:

Irishpearce26 said:

Greymug said:

RelievedSheff said:

Greymug said:

felicityBD15 said:

These upgrades tend to be for things like flooring, integrated appliances, turfing, additional sockets, tiling the whole height around the bath etc. and the prices can be extortionate! 

I saw a fair amount of new builds when I was looking for a house and I was shocked when quite a few sellers told me that shower fixtures over a bath tub were EXTRAS. If you don't pay for them as extras...they just put a bath tub with taps.

So many new builds like this, they are 2-3 years old, bathrooms still looking good and shiny and yet you'd have to rip them apart just to have a shower. Borderline disgusting.

Our new build doesn't have a shower over the bath in the main bathroom. But we have a huge shower cubicle in the en suite so we really don't need another shower over the bath.

So in the event you have guests staying overnight you let them shower in your en suite?

Very cool.

Well yeah duh! They could always have a bath or you could you know install a shower and bath tap unit for £200/300? Every house is usually built with a bath in the bathroom and a shower in the en-suite, people tend to add a shower to the bathroom for convenience.

People can be really dramatic on this forum.

I will probably regret saying this, but it’s years since I last had a bath!

We had one when we moved into the new build just to check it was all working as it should. Have not used it since.

RelievedSheff

Greymug said:

RelievedSheff said:

Greymug said:

felicityBD15 said:

These upgrades tend to be for things like flooring, integrated appliances, turfing, additional sockets, tiling the whole height around the bath etc. and the prices can be extortionate! 

I saw a fair amount of new builds when I was looking for a house and I was shocked when quite a few sellers told me that shower fixtures over a bath tub were EXTRAS. If you don't pay for them as extras...they just put a bath tub with taps.

So many new builds like this, they are 2-3 years old, bathrooms still looking good and shiny and yet you'd have to rip them apart just to have a shower. Borderline disgusting.

Our new build doesn't have a shower over the bath in the main bathroom. But we have a huge shower cubicle in the en suite so we really don't need another shower over the bath.

So in the event you have guests staying overnight you let them shower in your en suite?

Very cool.

If they want a shower rather then a bath yes.

We don't get in there with them!!

AdrianC

A main bathroom that doesn't include both a bath and a shower is a shonky shortcut.

But, since I presume this was made clear in the sales documentation, it would have been the buyer's choice not to pay for the shower...

RelievedSheff

AdrianC said:

A main bathroom that doesn't include both a bath and a shower is a shonky shortcut.

But, since I presume this was made clear in the sales documentation, it would have been the buyer's choice not to pay for the shower...

I'm really not a fan of a shower over the bath. We had one in the last house and we used it because we had no choice but it never felt like a proper shower. A proper walk in shower is a much better arrangement.

We certainly wouldn't rip out the bath in the main bathroom to install a walk in shower cubicle when we already have one in the en suite.

Next door have had a shower fitted over the bath in the main bathroom as they have a daughter who uses that as her own bathroom. It cost them £350 all in to have the shower fitted and some tiling done. It is hardly the end of the world to have the bathroom modified if that is what you want/need.

AdrianC

RelievedSheff said:

AdrianC said:

A main bathroom that doesn't include both a bath and a shower is a shonky shortcut.

But, since I presume this was made clear in the sales documentation, it would have been the buyer's choice not to pay for the shower...

I'm really not a fan of a shower over the bath. We had one in the last house and we used it because we had no choice but it never felt like a proper shower. A proper walk in shower is a much better arrangement.

Perhaps.

But it takes zero extra floorspace, and can only be better than no shower at all, right?

RelievedSheff

AdrianC said:

RelievedSheff said:

AdrianC said:

A main bathroom that doesn't include both a bath and a shower is a shonky shortcut.

But, since I presume this was made clear in the sales documentation, it would have been the buyer's choice not to pay for the shower...

I'm really not a fan of a shower over the bath. We had one in the last house and we used it because we had no choice but it never felt like a proper shower. A proper walk in shower is a much better arrangement.

Perhaps.

But it takes zero extra floorspace, and can only be better than no shower at all, right?

If there is no other shower in the house then perhaps yes. But they just feel closed in and claustrophobic to me and they make a room feel smaller with the glass screens.

Not my cup of tea and I think we would now dismiss a house if that was the only option for a shower.