I always considered myself an unskilled diy bodger, but if that’s what a professional finish looks like, maybe I’ve been too hard on myself

@serenityinside1

Жыл бұрын

😂

@PersonGamma

Жыл бұрын

Don’t be too hard on yourself Mr Site Manager

@FuknNoName

Жыл бұрын

Hah I bet your DIY always looked better than that shite.

@asambi69

11 ай бұрын

All about deadlines and Profits for the shareholders these days. Nothing to do with making a Quality product.

@Patrik6920

11 ай бұрын

..no1 calling themself a prefessional would want to put thier name on that.... ..this is definetly not professional.... but i bet it was cheap... ...and this is what u get... a huge problem that going to cost alot to fix...

I've got two sons in law. One's a joiner, the other's an electrician. Both of them do excellent work, have a great reputation and are always booked up well in advance. The one thing neither of them will touch is . . . new build. I've asked them why and it boils down to not wanting to be associated with the sort of shoddy/dangerous work that you highlight. We know where most developers' interest lies - the biggest profit, for the cheapest job they can do, so they really don't give a monkey's, provided they can sell the property. And, once the property's been sold, it's an almost unwinnable fight for the homeowner to get things sorted satisfactorily. Your videos are eye opening and massively depressing at the same time!

@Joe-lb8qn

Жыл бұрын

I have an electrician i use for jobs he's said the same thing wont touch new builds because they get insufficient time to do a good job. And this isnt a new problem my dad was a carpenter he wouldnt work on newbuilds more than 50 years ago. Job he enjoyed most was Yacht fitout because they cared about quality on them (and i guess the clients demanded quality).

@onthetrowel1895

Жыл бұрын

I know about 2 sparkys, they both make over 1200 pound a week, and are booked up all year, both work on new builds both really good

@angr3819

Жыл бұрын

Also there might be an attempt to blame them for the previous shoddy workmanship of the new builders. Isn't that why so many builders and decoraters won't take over jobs that haven't been completed?

@cdub5033

9 ай бұрын

My Dad was an Electrician & he was well known & in big demand for Commercial & Industrial stuff like Factory Shut Down’s, Foundries etc. Never needed to advertise. Wouldn’t ever even consider new builds for their low pay & exacting job demands. No wonder these jobs had crap quality he refused to be associated with. He ditched doing Domestic work too, he was sick of the filth & squalor in peoples homes. I’ve seen the eye-popping state of Homes myself when on jobs with him. It’s unbelievable how a surprising number of folk live.

@kathleensmith644

6 ай бұрын

Wel put.

and for £1200 a month I can own half the property

@Kishgofu

Жыл бұрын

if you're lucky

@paulhargreaves1680

Жыл бұрын

My lad and his girlfriend owned a quarter of 'their' house. What a rip off 🙄

@nickcoppard5335

Жыл бұрын

You get the crap half

@kasroa

Жыл бұрын

"Own"

3:50 If your mitres don't fit, fill them with glue and $#!+

@angr3819

Жыл бұрын

Lol. Like the Egyptian pyramids.

I remember the beginning of all this. When I started plastering in the mid 1970's sites had a foreman or clerk of works, usually an older guy who had done his time on the tools. There was no pulling the wool with them, they knew every trick and walked around with a mirror on a stick, a level and a tape. They'd run their hands along the architrave and woe betide the painter who didn't remove the dust before painting. If we worked on a single project for a builder, then the builder or his top man would appear regularly and check the work over; screed floor for level, finish behind the pipes, under the stairs. The sites would be tidy and as clean as possible. Then in the 80's we started to see younger and younger guys rock up in a company Sierra, wearing a sharp suit with clipboards full of projections and work schedules. They'd have four or five sites on the go at any one time and spend more time looking good than looking at the job. We'd arrive and the first job was to shovel all the other trades crap out of the window, something we never had to do before. These guys didn't want to do dirty work so they'd do year long college course to learn the theory and that would be good enough for developers. This looks like the logical conclusion to those years of falling standards on finish. I see it on my place, that I rent from a large charity. They get a builder in and no-one checks round after, they just take the builders word for it. They put a new exterior door into what was the outside loo back in the Winter. It's made by laying five bits of timber down as ledge and brace and screwing planks to them, butted tight, not T&G. Six months and the door has a series of vertical cracks down it, so I call the landlord and point out that they need to get the builder back, his door isn't fit for purpose. The builder came back, made a new door and gave me £500 compensati.....Oh no, I nodded off, he never came back and the landlord never chased it so in 5 years when they do their maintenance they'll have to pay again.

@dismalfist

10 ай бұрын

Yes! From the top to the bottom you'd have something in a self-regulating quality control. As a starting brickie you'd probably be with guild workers somewhere in the team and if you made something sub-par they'd take ABSOLUTELY pass comment on it and steer you right (likely sternly) until you learned. Lord help you if the gaffer came by and didn't like your wall! You'd get "Take that down and build it again. And you'll keep taking it down and building it again until I'm happy with it." You're getting teams made of apprentices now with schedules thrown at them by managers NOT builders! Let alone EXPERIENCED builders! All about turning that maximum profit for the large building firms, quality work in a new house is now a rare rare thing.

@TalesOfWar

4 ай бұрын

It isn't just younger less experienced people causing this. It's deregulation. One of the many things Maggie did to break this country for the long term was to relax a number of the standards. Gutting the budgets of local councils over the decades since (far, far more under Tory governments like we have now) has also meant local authorities simply lack the resources to check up on this crap and ensure they follow the standards we still have in place. So much stuff just gets ignored these days even though its very much against the regulations.

There should be a £50k mortage retainer before full acceptance for shite like this. Give the housebuilder 3 months to put right and release it or £50k goes to finish the build and residuals shared as a means of compensation between the mortgage provider and owner.

@tlangdon12

Жыл бұрын

It's a good point you make. If the mortgage companies pulled some of the finance in the case of shoddy work, the people that buy these new homes couldn't complete on the purchases and the developers would have to start caring.

@rafezetter8003

11 ай бұрын

For lots of places I've seen £50k wouldn't be enough - should be £100K minimum.

@Smartacus420

6 ай бұрын

Lol never gonna happen. Doesn't even cost them 50k to make one of these rubbish heaps.

@nomate3259

5 ай бұрын

That's actually a real well thought through deal, if firms adopted this people would flock to buy.

@TalesOfWar

4 ай бұрын

@@Smartacus420 Apparently a single sale pays for the cost to build 6 properties. On average.

Should be a tv documentary on the shambles of house building in the county

When I watch your videos I’m always reminded of the scene in Idiocracy when Joe looks out the hospital window realizing he’s in the future, as he sees a car drive off an unfinished overpass down into a pile of cars. 😂

The Victorians tried substandard housing, cheap and plentiful, same standards will have same results.

Apocalypse finish. Absolutely crying. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

1:25 Galaxy digestives! I'm going to have to look out for these.

@oldnelson4298

Жыл бұрын

Great for filling poorly cut skirting board joints

you have carved out a character without even a thought❤

Where the hell did British craftsmanship go. 💔

@newhomequalitycontrol

Жыл бұрын

On vacation

@thebossman9176

Жыл бұрын

​@@newhomequalitycontrol judging by the amount of content on this channel more like retirement

@bluegalaxyvr3442

Жыл бұрын

british you must be joking more like polish/russian /latvian and every foreign nationality you find on site now ,the british are a dying breed on site😊

@87solarsky

Жыл бұрын

It got dumbed down, like everything else....

@johnmartinez7440

Жыл бұрын

It's not as profitable

Its literally criminal whats going on in the building trade, people are paying ridiculous house prices for houses that are not fit for purpose. 😡

@brento4148

Жыл бұрын

I mean.. people can live in them. So not fit for purpose is a bit over the top.

@davidgreen424

Жыл бұрын

​@@brento4148 I hope that's sarcasm

@brento4148

Жыл бұрын

@@davidgreen424 define "fit for purpose"

@davidgreen424

Жыл бұрын

@@brento4148 A home is a building that protects the owner from external elements so that at the minimum it without excess energy use, is warm in winter , cool in summer , dry when raining and complying to building standards .

@brento4148

Жыл бұрын

@@davidgreen424 You're reaching

I thought our contractors for new construction were bad in the US, this is just unreal! I can’t believe just how bad the workmanship is. Makes you wonder just how bad things are under all the sheet rock! Can you even imagine?!

@charlesrodriguez7984

Жыл бұрын

I’m honestly surprised these new homes haven’t fallen down yet.

@alanwallis2467

Жыл бұрын

What worries me is the things you can't see or have been hidden.

@localvetUK

Жыл бұрын

These problems have arisen since the government abandoned apprenticeships. Some trades had to attend 4 - or 5-year apprenticeships before you were allowed out on the tools.

@angr3819

Жыл бұрын

@@localvetUK They were proper apprenticeships, too and at the end of it the lad would have a well paid trade for life. Many builders earned much more than office waller accountants, who often used to look down their noses at the builders and mechanics, engineers etc. Mind, they worked hard for it while the office men would sit and push pens. No hundred weight bags of sand or cement on their backs as they climbed scaffolding. Tradesmen definitely earned their money and were more likely to be be injured - or worse. Also often self employed so not much work between Christmas and Easter each year.

@curtisducati

Жыл бұрын

Scottish work force ! That would be a fail in England but up north it is a great job lol

Great to watch your videos, I see these cock ups on a daily basis - the quality seen these days goes from bad to worse with some of the bigger builders thinking that "Crap" is truly acceptable! My latest site visit included a hob in back to front and a bathroom door missing completely!

@localvetUK

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂🎉😅😅😅😅

@FuknNoName

Жыл бұрын

A back to front hob!! WTAF. RIGHT TURN ON THE GAS WHOAAAAAA

Loving this content mate, keep it up!

My boss called me a winkle spanner today... I told him to come up with an original insult

I'm a retired plumber. I'm busier now than I have ever been. Due to nobody available. Old customers only. I got out of site building 30 years ago. Tosspots walking around with clipboards. Unskilled foreigners who fill in the right forms; and agree to work for less. Endless courses required. Building standards appauling. Point a mistake out; but to be told that is not your area of expertise; even if you know there will be a problem later; damp subsidence etc!. I wouldn't have a new build as a gift, and I could repair most problems. What is a newly married couple with no experience, supposed to do

Time to expose the "developers". How any bank could lend money on a 25 yr mortgage beats me. Keep up the great work 👌

@kermito3659

Жыл бұрын

most of them are beyond rubbish

@michaelkimber6203

Жыл бұрын

​@@kermito3659you nailed it. I have worked in a number of newly built 'homes' around here. One family had to move out within 3 months of purchase as the screed was literally crumbling. There was no adequate wall, loft or roof insulation, no storage and an almost permanent queue of the builder's tradesmen putting things right. Shocking to think these substandard buildings are growing like mushrooms all over the country 😡

@SimplySketchyGT

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelkimber6203it’s a multitude of factors. The lack of building inspectors / project management on site. The hiring of people who claim to be a tradie but clearly aren’t. The fact that the country is desperate for housing so they can get away with throwing it together. The government don’t seem to control the quality or even punish those that don’t meet the regulations. My dad told me that when he bought our house the bank wouldn’t hand over the money to the developer because of the snagging list. This was in the 90s.

@ivermektin6874

9 ай бұрын

@@michaelkimber6203 all made by developers that have expanded during zero interest rates and got greedy during the covid property inflation to pump out as many as possible whilst their window of opportunity is there. In a couple years they'll stop building again and cry for handouts.

Who built these houses? Should be taken off any lists and banned from site! Sue 'em!

New home quality at its finest.

who is in charge to report ? (department) UK now is full of crap new build flat with terrible finish

@newhomequalitycontrol

Жыл бұрын

The homeowner hires us to inspect the property, we provide a report with photos and descriptions which they pass on to the devs to rectify for free

@M3hr4n.V92

Жыл бұрын

@@newhomequalitycontrol i am a tenant of terrible flat. I already report all the issues to agency and landlord but no one doing proper action and looking forward to find the right organisation to somehow help me to get things right. How much do you charge for studio flat inspection

@nvelsen1975

6 ай бұрын

@@M3hr4n.V92 Check via Citizen's Advice if you're in the right position to reduce your rent to force repairs.

Best one so far you crack me up keepem coming

Honestly this will continue until folks draw up contracts saying any major issues will ensure fines

Lived in a new build n I've seen some of these bodge jobs

Cheap is cheap. That is standard on new build now. Developers love saving on labour and products.

That really sad fact of this is, it's not the same workmen ( notice I didn't say tradesmen ) Someone somewhere is breeding Cowboys!!!

Ive commented before on your TikTok that you should be naming and shaming these builders so the public can stay well clear of them!

Glad to see hackjob contractors aren't a uniquely US problem. Here we had a lot of absolute tuna melts flipping houses especially in 2021-2022. Same grade of shoddy, garbage work.

Galaxy digestives????? How have I never seen these

Is this just unskilled or lazy workers, or are the building companies threatening to sack them for not meeting targets on time, even though these targets would be unachievable if the work was done properly?

@ThePhil543

Жыл бұрын

You are correct.I was a carpenter for 40 years and never if I could avoid it would I touch new build .It's not possible to do good work in the time and price range.

@connortheandroidsentbycybe7740

Жыл бұрын

It's the hunt for profit. As it is in everything. Do it as quick as possible & cheap as possible

@Smartacus420

6 ай бұрын

The second one. Fat cat CEOs chasing Christmas bonuses.

Love the channel

@newhomequalitycontrol

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

"7 digestives...that takes the biscuit!" pure clssic!

No way they covered a manhole with some turf. 😂😂😂😂😂

@jimbo48able

Жыл бұрын

They should have stuck it on with no more nails and glued a garden gnome on top so you could lift the turf and manhole cover off all in one to rod the drains out.😂

@markhorton8578

Жыл бұрын

They often use Tarmac, grass allows easy access.

The winkle spanners 😂

‘Winkle tuna spanner melt.’ Get me everytime 😂

Why is the tolerance 5mm on an opening over 1.5m? That’s a huge amount to be out. It should be 1mm because a square and a level is basic construction, and your doors come square!

Winkle spanner 😂 love it

@newhomequalitycontrol

Жыл бұрын

Absolute tuna melt!

"That's shockalockalocking!"

It's been going on for years, I bought my first house in 2000 ( a new build) and none of the window seals had been put in, there was a gap around the floor to the skirting, skirting was about 5mm above the floor. Damaged door on a kitchen cupboard, wrong end panel on kitchen cupboard. Kitchen boiler flue was too close to the gutter downpipe. Of the things I remember.

Hey @newhomequalitycontrol love the content. Educational and entertaining at the same time. I was wondering what might be the rate of such bad jobs vs. good ones. I guess you are like a car mechanic: due to the nature of your work you are called to the worst, but you may have a good hunch about the market.

I am definitely going to be using digestives as a measure of level in future.

You have shooked me again. I'm shookalocked

There’s an old saying that “Those who can do, and those who can’t teach”. They missed out the bit that those who can’t but want to can, by working on new builds. Its not just the low end housing either. The high end estates are just as bad.

Yet people pay so much for houses and they are delivered in this state, absolutely shocking. Other issue is that money is exchanged even though you are not happy

This is the funniest bloke on the internet. Winkle spanner 😂I hope he trademarks some of his quotes

I think you should come have a look at my kitchen that I've just had fitted The work tops a 4 cm higher than my cooker and a gap of 3 cm ether side of my cooker !! And all because they were short of time so did not cut down the kick board under the units !!

Top content, keep it up

@newhomequalitycontrol

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do!

the ultimate shocker from this vid is that I didn't know galaxy do digestive biscuits!

"if your mitres dont fit, fill it with glue and shit" 🤣🤣🤣

I count my lucky stars I could never afford a new build..oh the irony of people saving all there life for a shiney new home and this is what they get.🙄🙄🙄😏🤣

Council houses are built better than private, inspectors/ clerk of the works (or clerk of the Jerks as we bricklayers call em 😄) ensure that a Good standard is maintained throughout the build. Great vids, keep em coming , you'll never be stuck for material 😆 👍

I could understand if these houses were between 10 and 100 years old but most of them are new and only days to weeks old. People need to get their shit together and take some pride in their work.

This started when the Government stopped proper apprenticeships with qualifications and introduced youth training schemes, within a few years training colleges across the Country closed down. This allowed the replacement of trades people with an influx of 'builders' from across the EU and youths with little knowledge to be a common fixture on building sites. The final nail in the coffin was the the abolition of the Clerk of Works position, the overseer of quality across the building trade. The lack of quality in new builds plus the toothless 10 year guarantee has led to housing estates plagued with on going quality issues. One housing estate in Coventry was so appallingly built that it was in danger of collapse and residents had to live with scaffolded buildings for years whilst the arguments between developers and the NHBC persisted. Whilst the legal arguments were being fought, the developers somehow were given permission to build another housing estate!!

And I was worried about my own amateur DIY. Even my jobs come out better than this. They should be held criminally liable to sell properties in this condition

If planning depts did their regular site visits this would not get to the stage of knocking down entire buildings, but we all know about planning depts don't we.

I have just retired from owning a joinery business. I’ve stretched my skills to do all and more than the work being shown here. I am so disgusted and massively discouraged to see ‘work’ being carried out so utterly poorly. I simply could not leave a job in such a state-utterly unconscionable. And I left this industry almost penniless. Never really made a profit. Is that because my clients were entirely Scottish or because I spent the time to do the job well? I genuinely don’t know. But this is such a bad omen for housebuilding in the future.

I'm technically an 'amateur', but since moving into our house I've had to correct so much shite work by 'professionals'. Not a new build ours, but it's seen some shocking work. I guess anyone can just claim to have these skills and set up. Shocking. And no pride in their work and all about maximising profit. Whomever signs this stuff off needs striking off too.

I like UK quality of craft. It says everything.

That garden gate braces are the wrong way, should be from hinge side up to lock side. That gate will drop and catch on the post

The trouble is that the developers go for the sub contractors who quote the lest and the videos show the result of that.

Can you do a follow up to give us an idea of what happens with the people who have been stitched up with these "houses". Do these faults actually get rectified?

That’s nuts for the kitchen unit and counter that’s actually filthy woah

Proper workmanship.

Winkle spanner I'm gunna use that on lol 😂😂😂

'Absolute wincklespanner' is now my new favourite non-swear.

Hahaha your videos are gold. That’s what you get when having dodgy contractors without experience and/or qualifications

Could you let us know what happens to these properties after you give your professional advice,,can we see one before and after just to see all the corrections done

In my experience its down to the developer.,...some ive worked for have snagged the most ridiculous things.....when others just want it done as quick as possible....one i worked for their favourite saying was "nevermind the finish the painters will hide that"

Any advice on catching these ridiculous bodge jobs before completion?

@tehsimo

Жыл бұрын

there's a video full of things to look for about 6 inches up

@kermito3659

Жыл бұрын

snag it before buying, and ask to see any QA documentation prior to purchase

Ridickerlusss. Love it. Especially the use of Digestives as a unit of measurement. You'd think all the scandal around new builds would cause improvement

I dont care how many mil its out of plumb i need to know how many digestive biscuits it is ! 😂 awesome as allways mate !

It's all down to the client to be well informed. Norman Foster had to quit trade-build and go over to factory pre-fab because he had instances of builders building walls on top of newspaper painted black, to look like mortar :-)

youshould be on stage and you don't even have to practise your a funny guy my m8😂😂😂😂

😂we bought a CG Fry new Home on Dartmoor absolutely brilliant. Thank goodness..

Most of this is because Site Managers aren't build trained and have unrealistic targets to meet due to commissioned sales teams giving unrealistic move in dates. I got out of the House Bashing game in the 90s and it was bad then so today it must be a ""Every man for himself environment""... Bring back build controllers and Clerk of Works Officer who can be held to account and the standard SHOULD rise.

@markhorton8578

Жыл бұрын

Throw it up quick and get away before it falls apart, is a common motto.

Lookithaht... Shohkin! Absolute winklespanners

Just like my Persimmon house - 5 years here and still not rectified

so if the walls are well out of plumb, how do you rectify as I'm guessing you can't exactly knock it down and start again, especially if its an external wall?

@TheVicar

Жыл бұрын

Add plenty of plaster on the inside and some clever stone rendering on the outside

I feel like I've seen all of these before :/

@newhomequalitycontrol

Жыл бұрын

Yes! It’s a compilation!! Some people miss the shorts! 😊

So, i'm in different country and it's generally always interesting to see the work others do and what an inspector looks for. But I gotta say I can't believe what mess some workers leave behind. I know times always an Issue, but i'd be so damn ashamed to present that as my work. Fix it, admit you f***ed up, find a solution. Trying to hide it and hope you get away with it will only make things worse. If it's not your fault you can't do it properly cause others didn't work within parameters: awesome! Tell them to fix it before everything is finished, if that's not possible alert the owner. Don't try to patch it over yourself and make it work somehow. The guy who trained me always told me to build it as if it were my own house i'm working on. "Would you want THAT for yourself? No? Fix it then, go on, git!"

I always agree with his snags, but the decking being out of level is probably deliberate, it's to channel the rain water away. A bit excessive on the fall though

I moved from the UK to NZ 3.5 years ago. Really miss central heating with radiators. Was curious to see the air-source heat pump there - is this installed as a ducted system so the heat gets everywhere?

@neill392

11 ай бұрын

They are, most often, attached to underfloor heating.

A house will be the biggest dept someone will get into and this is what they get. Appalling.

20 years ago, Renfrewshire Council installed new windows in all the Council houses in Renfrew and gave each tenant keys for every window - they would have been great except for the fact that each key fitted every other house in the scheme that got the same windows.

@jasonlawlor9599

Жыл бұрын

We once left our front door key with an electrician but he forgot what house we lived at and let himself into next door with our key! Only found out because he rang up to say there was a big dog watching TV in the front room... we don't have a dog. Needless to say we got new windows and doors fitted sharpish.

@PersonGamma

Жыл бұрын

@@jasonlawlor9599 well you could’ve just replaced the locks…

@tlangdon12

Жыл бұрын

Hilarious comment! I now have visions of the neighbours all breaking into each other's houses at night, just so they can open all the windows with the key that fits from their house. Of course, if the windows were patio doors and the Euro locks were all keyed-alike, that's a different matter.

@andyhughes5885

Жыл бұрын

@@PersonGamma Which would have meant replacing the entire window that they just installed.

@majorlaff8682

11 ай бұрын

@@jasonlawlor9599 Time to change your electrician.

Love take you to my old house in Porthcawl

It's difficult to get as far as saying that these issues are due to a lack of skills. There is a lack of skills but those can be taught, the real problem is a complete lack of pride, ownership and self responsibility. In short, far too many workers in the UK construction industry couldn't give a f@ck about the work they produce.

@3rodox

Жыл бұрын

I don't think the blame should just be put on the workers; the higher ups set the targets and timeframes for work to be completed, as well as picking the cheapest possible materials to ensure they can extract maximum profit from each house. Its mainly a greed problem.

@First_Principals

Жыл бұрын

Conscientiousness or total lack of.

@angr3819

Жыл бұрын

@@First_Principals Because of not paid properly they won't bother to do the job properly. A dangerous job now often at or near minimum wage?

the apocolypse finish :D

0:46 Deep breaths! 😂

This is why I rather DIY know I can do better for a lot of theese things. There is 0 pride given in peoples work... It doesn't take much ti do thing's properly just a bit of extra time and planning...😢

Looks like these builders would be perfect to re-build the wonky pub.... just ask them to build it straight, because if you ask them to build it wonky, they'd build it straight!

Shock a loc a lockin'

They're like failed DIYers not actual professional builders

So glad Blair imported millions into our country and replaced most of the English on the building sites. Saw it happen with my own eyes, until eventually I was replaced with a cheap worker too, right before Christmas, which was nice...

Ready to give birth 😂😂😂😂😂 Love it 😅😅😅😅😅

If the worst thing was gold screws holding a chrome hinge I wouldn't have worried about it. I'd worry more about insulation being done right. Sometimes there are supply issues.

What happens after a snag? Do you ask for money back or do they get rectified. I guess weap vents can't be retrospectively fitted so what happens in that case

Manhole cover under the turf, I'm already done 😂

@First_Principals

Жыл бұрын

There's nothing wrong with that, it's called the camouflage finnish 😂😂😂😂

Just sit back and enjoy the narration of all the observations this gentleman makes. He's simply brilliant. ...shame about all the shoddy workmanship he has to point out, tho'!!