David Wilson New Built houses

splendidmars

I have seen quite a good amount negative reviews about the build quality of houses built by David Wilson on internet. Can anybody share his/her/their experience ? 

UnderOffer

Some are good, some are bad, almost all builders receive similar feedback, very difficult to give review when a similar house with your current builder could be located anywhere and people with have few issues, where as your purchase could be full of issues. 

Get to know the site office, meet the site manager, if some houses are already occupied go and knock and talk to owners to get feedback. You need to know if problems were identified how quickly they can be resolved and how proactive the company is, that would be important to me. 

stuart45

People have been saying this about new builds for as long as I can remember, although I did notice a certain drop in standards when the trade went over more to sub contract labour from direct.

74jax

Worked for BDW.  Depends on the site manager - the whole construction industry moves around, you can have an NHBC 5star site, site manager leaves and another comes on - that site manager has not contributed to the site.
Find a site manager who has started a site and progressed through, not moved on to it mid build.
Customer care depends on the division. How many live sites it has, how many completions. For example a division with 20 live sites and 1000 completions a year, will have more calls/call outs than a division with 18 smaller sites pulling in 500 completions a year. 

Pow11890

We’ve just recently brought with Crest Nicholson and had a very positive experience. 

AFF8879

Pow11890 said:

We’ve just recently brought with Crest Nicholson and had a very positive experience. 

Ditto for Bewley Homes

RelievedSheff

We bought a David Wilson Homes house new 3 years ago. We love it.

We had some minor snagging in the first 12 months that you get with pretty much any new build but on the whole it is a nice, well built solid house. 

The layout suits us very well.

It has proven to be a very efficient house to run and heat. Our bills are very small compared to our previous smaller house. 

The estate we are on is very quiet and very well laid out with plenty of open green spaces and open countryside on the doorstep.

Unless something drastic changes we can't see ourselves moving from this house.

Noneforit999

All new build developers have negative and positive experiences from buyers.

Bear in mind that those with negative experiences are far more likely to write online reviews, those who are happy with their home are unlikely to come onto Google or a forum etc to start shouting about how good it is.

We bought with Bellway 7 years ago and there were a few issues Some were sorted out and others we had to get done ourselves as it was quicker.  
Expect snags. It won't be perfect.

The more expensive developers tend to have better finishes from what I have observed but even they have snags to deal with. 

All the snags we had were minor. Most of them were just poor finishes from the tradesman, there was no issues structurally. 

In contrast we are about to buy a 1960's house which is far better built in terms of the internal walls being masonry rather than timber but the time and money we are putting into it made me realise the new build snags were nothing in comparison. I don't recall having the strip wallpaper off every single wall, have every room skimmed, replace every skirting board etc etc. Older houses are not all they are cracked up to be, despite what the anti new build mob tell you.

GDB2222

There’s quite a lot of difference between buying off plan (which scares me, frankly) and buying a new build house that’s already completed. Off plan, you are buying a pig in a poke, where the builders can change the specs to suit themselves. 

RelievedSheff

Noneforit999 said:

All new build developers have negative and positive experiences from buyers.

Bear in mind that those with negative experiences are far more likely to write online reviews, those who are happy with their home are unlikely to come onto Google or a forum etc to start shouting about how good it is.

We bought with Bellway 7 years ago and there were a few issues Some were sorted out and others we had to get done ourselves as it was quicker.  
Expect snags. It won't be perfect.

The more expensive developers tend to have better finishes from what I have observed but even they have snags to deal with. 

All the snags we had were minor. Most of them were just poor finishes from the tradesman, there was no issues structurally. 

In contrast we are about to buy a 1960's house which is far better built in terms of the internal walls being masonry rather than timber but the time and money we are putting into it made me realise the new build snags were nothing in comparison. I don't recall having the strip wallpaper off every single wall, have every room skimmed, replace every skirting board etc etc. Older houses are not all they are cracked up to be, despite what the anti new build mob tell you.

It depends on the house type you buy as to which internal walls are masonry or timber studwork.

All of our downstairs walls are masonry and the majority of our upstairs walls are masonry. It is only the bathroom wall and en-suite wall that are timber studs in our home.

In comparison to the 1930's semi we moved from our 2019 "new build" detached is a far better built home. The 1930's house really was the house that Jack built. It was atrocious. And people claim that older properties are built better, ours certainly wasn't.

GDB2222

RelievedSheff said:

Noneforit999 said:

All new build developers have negative and positive experiences from buyers.

Bear in mind that those with negative experiences are far more likely to write online reviews, those who are happy with their home are unlikely to come onto Google or a forum etc to start shouting about how good it is.

We bought with Bellway 7 years ago and there were a few issues Some were sorted out and others we had to get done ourselves as it was quicker.  
Expect snags. It won't be perfect.

The more expensive developers tend to have better finishes from what I have observed but even they have snags to deal with. 

All the snags we had were minor. Most of them were just poor finishes from the tradesman, there was no issues structurally. 

In contrast we are about to buy a 1960's house which is far better built in terms of the internal walls being masonry rather than timber but the time and money we are putting into it made me realise the new build snags were nothing in comparison. I don't recall having the strip wallpaper off every single wall, have every room skimmed, replace every skirting board etc etc. Older houses are not all they are cracked up to be, despite what the anti new build mob tell you.

It depends on the house type you buy as to which internal walls are masonry or timber studwork.

All of our downstairs walls are masonry and the majority of our upstairs walls are masonry. It is only the bathroom wall and en-suite wall that are timber studs in our home.

In comparison to the 1930's semi we moved from our 2019 "new build" detached is a far better built home. The 1930's house really was the house that Jack built. It was atrocious. And people claim that older properties are built better, ours certainly wasn't.

There was a major building boom in the 1930s. Our first home was built in the 1930s by a well known and respected firm, Laing, and it was very well built. I suspect that quality varied, though, according to which firm built the house.