Taylor Wimpey questions

BobT36

player1_2 said:

BobT36 said:

You should be able to check OpenReach fibre availability on the OpenReach website, just stick your postcode / number in. 

Thanks Bob, only the frame of the house is up so fat and the address won’t be registered in databases yet since still a building site. 

Just use a nearby one. Nothing wrong with that as long as checking & not switching them lol.

player1_2

BobT36 said:

player1_2 said:

BobT36 said:

Just use a nearby one. Nothing wrong with that as long as checking & not switching them lol.

BobT36
Just use a nearby one. Nothing wrong with that as long as checking & not switching them lol.

great idea 👍😀

Veteransaver

Builders are still installing gas boilers, it does sound crazy. But given that you'll probably need to replace with a heat pump in 10-15 years you should check that they've fitted suitably sized radiators (should be doubles really downstairs at least though ideally it should have underfloor heating downstairs) and not used that pathetic microbore pipework that they often do use in the name of cost-cutting. It will mean a lot of extra upheaval in a few years time. Microbore is very difficult to get to work with heatpumps as it simply can't get a decent enough flow for the lower temperatures a heat pump works at.

I would presume that the plinth heater would be a hydroponic heater plumbed into the central heating. They have a thermostat in them which turns a fan on when the water running through the central heating is above a certain temperature. They aren't very useful in my opinion as they simply aren't very controllable. They won't work well at all with heatpump either, you'd really need a proper radiator in there.
As for broadband, if it's fibre it doesn't really matter on the provider, but are you committed to a contract on moving in, it might not be the best deal and it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if they try and lock you in to something of not particularly good value.

badger09

Local (very local as latest phase of development is adjacent to our back garden😏) builder is including the following:
Car charging point
Air source heat pump
Underfloor heating to ground floor
Solar panels

Not all house builders are alike. 
If I were looking to move to a new build, I would happily buy one of theirs. 

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MultiFuelBurner said:

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player1_2 said:

You mention a boiler. Check that, it should be a heat pump. It's much cheaper to get a heat pump installed now, with suitable size rads. Otherwise you will have a big bill coming when the boiler needs replacing and new ones are no longer available. You may also have costs related to disconnecting gas, and obviously using electric is going to be better because you have solar and some storage.

It’s definitely a gas boiler - I suspect heat pumps are still a few years away but I do recognise there may be a future replacement cost. 

Heat pumps are ready now and new builds should not be installing boilers. It's not just the boiler, you are paying for a mains gas connection that will be obsolete in a decade.

I'd get onto that urgently. It's not just the heat pump itself, they need to size the rads or install underfloor heating to suit it, and of course all the plumbing and the outdoor unit. It will be a major and expensive hassle down the road.

Incredible that they are still doing this. Presumably it at least has decent insulation and solar?

What law says builders should not be fitting gas boilers?

AFAIK that law comes into effect in 2025

National builders will generally do the bare minimum before being forced.

Why would anyone buy an already obsolete house, that will need major expensive upgrades in the next decade or so.

player1_2

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MultiFuelBurner said:

[Deleted User] said:

player1_2 said:

You mention a boiler. Check that, it should be a heat pump. It's much cheaper to get a heat pump installed now, with suitable size rads. Otherwise you will have a big bill coming when the boiler needs replacing and new ones are no longer available. You may also have costs related to disconnecting gas, and obviously using electric is going to be better because you have solar and some storage.

It’s definitely a gas boiler - I suspect heat pumps are still a few years away but I do recognise there may be a future replacement cost. 

Heat pumps are ready now and new builds should not be installing boilers. It's not just the boiler, you are paying for a mains gas connection that will be obsolete in a decade.

I'd get onto that urgently. It's not just the heat pump itself, they need to size the rads or install underfloor heating to suit it, and of course all the plumbing and the outdoor unit. It will be a major and expensive hassle down the road.

Incredible that they are still doing this. Presumably it at least has decent insulation and solar?

What law says builders should not be fitting gas boilers?

AFAIK that law comes into effect in 2025

National builders will generally do the bare minimum before being forced.

Why would anyone buy an already obsolete house, that will need major expensive upgrades in the next decade or so.

Isn’t that > 95% of houses in the Uk ?

Doozergirl

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Commiserations on your purchase.

You mention a boiler. Check that, it should be a heat pump. It's much cheaper to get a heat pump installed now, with suitable size rads. Otherwise you will have a big bill coming when the boiler needs replacing and new ones are no longer available. You may also have costs related to disconnecting gas, and obviously using electric is going to be better because you have solar and some storage.

As for broadband, steer clear of OpenReach. Overpriced and poor service.

1) There's no intention to ban gas boilers outright.  The intention is to prevent new builds having them.  It is still more expensive to run a heat pump than it is a gas boiler so I still wouldn't be looking at a gas boiler as a negative. 

2) You can't pay Openreach for internet provision, so you can't really judge price and service.  They are the key distributor and probably 95% and more of this country operates on their network. 

OP, I was on a call with Openreach management the other day, and I probably should remember better, but I think that Sky via internet is exclusively available via the Openreach network.   Developers are getting pushback from purchasers using others because they can't access Sky and so some developers are starting to offer more than one connection offering.   If you want Sky, you must check this and push back. 

BobT36

Some of these new builds have their own little monopoly, and are outright preventing openreach and virgin etc. from operating in the area. 

Fibrenest is Persimmon build's one, and there are a couple of others. 

Sky, Now Broadband (which is Sky) and BT (now EE), Plusnet (which is BT) are all OpenReach of course, as are most of the others out there. 
Virgin, YouFibre and HyperOptic are all standalone fibre networks, though. 

MultiFuelBurner

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MultiFuelBurner said:

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player1_2 said:

You mention a boiler. Check that, it should be a heat pump. It's much cheaper to get a heat pump installed now, with suitable size rads. Otherwise you will have a big bill coming when the boiler needs replacing and new ones are no longer available. You may also have costs related to disconnecting gas, and obviously using electric is going to be better because you have solar and some storage.

It’s definitely a gas boiler - I suspect heat pumps are still a few years away but I do recognise there may be a future replacement cost. 

Heat pumps are ready now and new builds should not be installing boilers. It's not just the boiler, you are paying for a mains gas connection that will be obsolete in a decade.

I'd get onto that urgently. It's not just the heat pump itself, they need to size the rads or install underfloor heating to suit it, and of course all the plumbing and the outdoor unit. It will be a major and expensive hassle down the road.

Incredible that they are still doing this. Presumably it at least has decent insulation and solar?

What law says builders should not be fitting gas boilers?

AFAIK that law comes into effect in 2025

National builders will generally do the bare minimum before being forced.

Why would anyone buy an already obsolete house, that will need major expensive upgrades in the next decade or so.

How many houses do you think are on sites like Rightmove with what you term "obselete" heating that will need expensive upgrades in the next decade.

These house being sold now will just fall into that big bucket and in reality many buyers will.prefer gas CH as that is what they know and they will.have been scared by some of the stories of heat pumps.

I would hazard a guess over 50% of people would prefer a new build with gas CH as that's what they knowm

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player1_2 said:

[Deleted User] said:

MultiFuelBurner said:

[Deleted User] said:

player1_2 said:

You mention a boiler. Check that, it should be a heat pump. It's much cheaper to get a heat pump installed now, with suitable size rads. Otherwise you will have a big bill coming when the boiler needs replacing and new ones are no longer available. You may also have costs related to disconnecting gas, and obviously using electric is going to be better because you have solar and some storage.

It’s definitely a gas boiler - I suspect heat pumps are still a few years away but I do recognise there may be a future replacement cost. 

Heat pumps are ready now and new builds should not be installing boilers. It's not just the boiler, you are paying for a mains gas connection that will be obsolete in a decade.

I'd get onto that urgently. It's not just the heat pump itself, they need to size the rads or install underfloor heating to suit it, and of course all the plumbing and the outdoor unit. It will be a major and expensive hassle down the road.

Incredible that they are still doing this. Presumably it at least has decent insulation and solar?

What law says builders should not be fitting gas boilers?

AFAIK that law comes into effect in 2025

National builders will generally do the bare minimum before being forced.

Why would anyone buy an already obsolete house, that will need major expensive upgrades in the next decade or so.

Isn’t that > 95% of houses in the Uk ?

We are talking about new houses. With old ones you pay a lot less to account for the fact that they need modernizing.