Taylor Wimpey Options

TDPIX wrote: »

Sounds like you had a good deal there, well done


Our current 3 bed semi is 753 square foot (built in the 1970s). Our (soon to be) new build will be a 1180 square foot 4 bed, so a fair bit bigger than our current non-new-build.

I haven't ever seen a 1900 square foot semi in this area, so maybe it's area specific?

(All our normal sized furniture will fit fine in the new build, too).

Thanks for this! Was beginning to think we were purchasing a hobbit hole! :rotfl:

So ours is a three bed semi, with upstairs bathroom and downstairs cloakroom.

We looked at the Karndean flooring for basically the whole house except stairs and landing - £7500.

We are very keen on having hard floors so much as possible but, not at that pricing, which is roughly £80 per square metre for us.

A local independent flooring firm have luxury vinyl for £10/sq m, then another £10/sq m to fit. I can't imaging the screed is going to be the extra £60/sq m so, no thanks TW.

We didn't go for any upgrades and they didn't offer to throw anything in :-( but they are giving us money toward stamp duty instead.

All we committed to was a shaver socket in the bathroom, and two extra power points, one for the cupboard under the stairs where the Dyson can go!

OneEyedFish wrote: »

How did you manage to secure those upgrades at no extra cost? What was the benefit for Taylor Wimpey in giving you that free of charge, presumably without any commitment from yourself to opt for upgraded flooring etc? I am due to have an options meeting in the next few weeks and it would of course be useful to know how to get them to budge.

We have recently purchased a 4 bed Taylor Wimpey property in the South East and we were offered £5k towards extras / options right off the bat.


When it came to the options meeting I actually expected them to have conveniently 'forgotten' the offer as it was just a flippant comment when we first looked but they were true to their word and took £5k off the £8k of choices we made.


If anyone wants to see a break down of the costs we were given, just let me know.


We went for . . .
Fully tiled en suite and main bathroom, 3/4 height in the cloakroom.
Shower over bath and screen
Towel rails in all three
Some extra sockets
Outside tap & 2 outside sockets
Doorbell (Yes, that was extra!)
Integrated appliances (DW, WM and FF)
A few other bits like a square sink in the en suite, soft close toilet seats etc


I have since been talking to the groundworkers to get some extra patio laid.

We had a £5k options voucher and nothing else. The development is selling well so no reason for them to offer much else.

We went elsewhere for the flooring as TW were too much. However, they do sub it out to another company, so an extra margin is going on. One thing to consider, they told us that they would not allow any workmen (fitters) on site prior to completion. Not ideal when you are moving in and having the carpets fitted at the same time.

Some options are better value than others.

Overall, TW have been very fair and decent with us, including trimming all of our doors for free, which they didn't need to do.

scottishblondie wrote: »

When you're choosing extras in a new build, make sure to have a look at the number and location of sockets, as well as where they're putting the radiators and light/isolation switches etc. Sometimes they don't put in enough, or they don't put things in sensible places. If you catch it early then you can ask for them to be moved. More sockets will come at a cost, but I thought it was worth it to avoid the mess later on!

Great advice. Take a walk around and look at where extra sockets can go, almost certainly there aren't enough to start with.