I think the worrying part of these videos is the snags aren't small or minor things. They're obvious and unsafe, but they've been signed off and someone has just invested their life savings into the property which they will forever be chasing to get fixed from day one. Disgusting.

@Kx0195

6 ай бұрын

Just the British way of doing things nowadays.

@bradwaddington1730

6 ай бұрын

​@@Kx0195 "British"

@mydogeatspuke

6 ай бұрын

​@@benh283you thought the obvious that they stated? Wow, you're both such great minds!

@greglinski2208

6 ай бұрын

@@benh283”Thought provoking and outstanding” - The New York Times

@joshclayg

6 ай бұрын

Life savings or a trip over the channel.

The Canary island finish 😂. You should name and shame the developers.

I rented a room in a new build, half the radiators in the house didnt work because they plumbed the heating pipe straight out of the boiler and back into it again missing the entire radiator loop. The cherry on the cake was they did not sweep the floor before laying the carpet so you could feel every lump.

@khznator

6 ай бұрын

That is shocking...

@G4RY1159

6 ай бұрын

All built with speed now, the high QTY days are long gone. Everything now is timed.

Thank god for people like you doing this job. The fact these houses have been handed over after being "Finalled" is bonkers. After watching this, I know my Victorian era house carrying all the time relevant nuances will outlast these Winklespanner inspired new builds. That's a new subscription from me.

Maybe it's a good thing the UK has failed to hit the new build targets looking at the state of these

Look at the bigger picture and why are these issues are becoming more and more common. Most large scale housing projects are built to a set price and a time scale. They get built quick, for the lowest amount of money possible to maximise profits. Companies will pay peanuts to contractors and wonder why they end up having to cut corners, Pride in your work doesn’t pay the bills and so the level of quality drops. My dad always says Pay peanuts, get monkeys.

@Adeleisha

6 ай бұрын

But the main reason is Self-Certification. Councils used to have to sign off building work, but now the building companies themselves can employ someone to fudge, er, sign off, the paperwork.

Site plumber here. I don’t think trades prices have gone up in twenty years, you’re given a day to 1st fix a 3 bed house and a day 11/2 to 2nd fix. Health a safety makes the job unbearable! Things like hard hats in the house just take the piss! Sites are miserable because everyone’s down trodden by agents pushing and pushing simply to make their bonuses for filthy rich shareholders. They’re trying to get a better standard which requires more work but it has to be done quicker and they reduce the price? Essentially you’re working harder,faster and longer for less……no wonder there’s no incentive for young lads to become tradesman and I don’t blame them.

@matt69nice

6 ай бұрын

I'm glad you don't blame them because clearly a lot from your generation unfortunately do. Country's become a race to the bottom.

@thomasmanning477

6 ай бұрын

At least someone on here sees it for what it is..

They should play this video in the House of Commons on repeat loop until they legislate cowboys out of the industry. Property prices have never been higher and yet this is the standard that is getting foisted upon the general public.

@Monaleenian

6 ай бұрын

These houses aren’t foisted upon people. The purchasers should, at the very least, inspect the houses before they buy them.

@zlatanmorrison8182

6 ай бұрын

perhaps they should build them properly in the first place and an inspection by the buyer would not be necessary @@Monaleenian

@MrOlympuse410

6 ай бұрын

Only problem, MPs are invested in these home building companies - they're the one making money off of these houses! They won't care

@zlatanmorrison8182

6 ай бұрын

general election this year@@MrOlympuse410

@Adeleisha

6 ай бұрын

@@Monaleenian ah yes, neoliberalism at its finest. Consumer is always to blame.

I have said for years there needs to be a national enquiry into these house builders & their sub standard products & malpractices

These videos carry no weight unless the builders are 'named'. Developers do not have their own builders. They just subcontract out to large local firms in the area that they build the developments...just to get the job done asap. And when the developers get the building regs to sign it off ie 'air tests' etc...they just fill the gaps for it to pass with expanding foam!.

@pedazodetorpedo

6 ай бұрын

It's all of the major housing developers

It doesn't surprise me at all. The standard of tradesman in the UK is shocking. Half the wet wipes don't turn up. The other half of the wet wipes don't get back, and the small % of wet wipes who do manage to quote you want £600 for 3 hours work.

I'm a Scaff in the South East. I only work on new builds. I would never buy or let anyone I care about buy a home they I have built. Buy a house pre war and spend the extra making in modern.

The letter box upside down was my favourite 😂

Its absolutely insane that you can buy a £500 fridge and if its damaged, get your money back / replaced. Yet, buying one of the biggest purchases of your life and getting anyone to fix or resolve the problems is next to impossible.

Thank you for these. Makes me appreciate the builders who did a lot of good work for me. Also makes me relax about the quality of my occasional DIY.

Appreciate your work. Great workmanship is something difficult to come by nowadays.

@newhomequalitycontrol

6 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

Of all the ridiculous things shown, that wrong way up letterbox opener was so pathetic it made me laugh, thanks.

Nobody gives 2 shits anymore. Can't wait to get home to a takeaway, 1000 channels of shit TV and a bag of Haribo.

Whenever I feel like I'm screwing up a DIY thing on my house or the boathouse where I volunteer, I tune into this channel and see that it can be much, much worse. 😆

@weeeeehhhhh

6 ай бұрын

I put tiles down for the first time last year, thought I did an ok job for an amateur. I've been in a few houses now where they hired a "professional" tiler, honestly I'm glad I did my floor myself.

@420styletomatoes6

6 ай бұрын

@@weeeeehhhhh you will always put more time and effort into a job for yourself then any tradesman would, if you have common sense you can do almost any job on your house after watching a few KZread videos.

The state of building built in the UK in the last 20 years is atrocious. Design wise most are beyond ugly. And the sound insulation is non-exixtent.

@TheWonderingEnglishman

6 ай бұрын

@@repairwins of course there are exceptions to the rule. And of course that doesn't include every building. However, you can't claim most of these rabbit hutches going up are well designed or well built.

Need to start captioning each house with the name of the developer so people watching can see what they could end up with if they buy a new build from that company. It's great you're showing how bad things can be, but without knowing which developer it is, how can people avoid their builds?

@JohnKobaRuddy

6 ай бұрын

80% persimmons houses

and all for the low low price of £400k

@rivierapalms6485

6 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

Judging by how often you find them, I think this is a new trend: portable ovens.

@michaelwillson6847

6 ай бұрын

Gotta take it to work with u.

thanks for this video. I'm flipping right now my letter box just to see the mailman's face once I tell him "It's an Australian letterbox!"

@michaelwillson6847

6 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

hahahaha "a mince pie and a half out of plumb" is epic!

And these builders come home and say they've done a hard days work and they're proper grafters. Legit they all think they are 10/10

As a 3D artist and photographer I've been to plenty of newbuilt houses where me and my partner questioned the most random things... One thing that is often a problem is electrical sockets and light switches being at uneven heights and angles - which is the easiest thing to make sure is right!!

I've been in a new build property since September through a housing association. I've had to get the developers out a few times for multiple snags. We are covered by them for a year, and then it's covered by the housing association. I have contacted yourselves about a price to come out, but wary it might affect my tenancy with the hosuing. It's a 1 year tenancy, and then it goes on to a 4 year one. The door frames upstairs are truly awful. I can fit a finger between the wall and frame. They keep putting certain things down to the settlement of the house.

@420styletomatoes6

6 ай бұрын

When I spoke to one of the old boys he said that when they built a house back in the day they would build it, then lock it up for 6 months to settle, then come back and finish it. Most of the time these days their plastering the inside as the bricky is building the outside.

@Adeleisha

6 ай бұрын

I thought older houses were more prone to settlement due to shallow foundations - surely with the deeper and more solid foundations they're supposed to have these days, there shouldn't be too much settlement? Certainly not enough to put door frames that much out of alignment? 🤔

@420styletomatoes6

6 ай бұрын

@Adeleisha you clearly have never worked on a new build, the door frames are never put in square in the first place, the build quality is terrible, you can make foundations as strong as you want but if someone doesn't know how to work to square it's a lost cause, all houses settle and mostly in the first 6 months to a year once complete.

Really good to see you back feels like forever

I turned out that my top floor new build flat had a space for a sky light in the building roof above my hall cupboard; I discovered this when rainwater began leaking in down the wall with my fuse board & climbing up to have a look discovered that only a wooden board had been placed over it. Of course our landlord's reaction was to emphasise that as the damage to our cupboard ceiling Was Inside our flat that it remained our responsibility to pay for the repairs to it be carried out. The roof would be sorted but they refused to acknowledge it more than that, not even to give a general timetable of when.

The commentary is brilliant 😂

The utter lack of pride in workmanship combined with home builders solely caring about speed and costs is a dangerous combination. I’d be very reluctant to buy a new home.

@SimonJ57

6 ай бұрын

Doing half a job and charging full price.

And they're charging more for this trash than there's been for any housing in human history. THAT'S RIDICULOUS!

Great narration!!

Last site I was on I had to sort out the first 5 show houses from the last joiners, a month later 2 groudworkers showed up to do the kerbs, guess who it was? Chancers everywhere, but the SM should be making sure they get found out, but just seem to let many create a absolute disaster before rumbling them and then don’t want to pay someone proper a day rate to fix it, so gets double bodged.

I was berating myself for buying an old house. Looking at them, it's a relief. Love the apocalypse stuff! 😂

@tfairley1187

6 ай бұрын

I bought a 125 year old house, been here 13 years and can’t count on one hand the number of issues… got a friend who bought a new build last year and it’s been as bad as the properties in this video 😮

This makes me laugh so much, it sums moden life up perfectly. 😂😂 Builders used to do a multi-year apprenticeship followed by having a decades long career as a qualified builder under the watchfull eye of a Master Builder, before finally being experienced enough to attain the level of Master themselves. Now a couple of weeks on the equivilence of a YTS scheme produces builders that opperate under the watchful eye of other builders that only passed the same course a month or two earlier. The results speak for themselves. 😂😂😂

I used to work on sites where I seen botched work being done, mostly by fly by nights. In the end I stopped doing them and work for private individuals.

If they try that with things you can see, makes you wonder how bad everything else is that you can't see!

‘ nothing a blind man in the dark wouldn’t see ‘ - Bob the builder

Pure, delightful entertainment. 🇬🇧😎

Can you imagine these lot building net zero housing??

My welsh friend thank you for sharing this video with us, it really made me laugh as to how bad the work was done.

Amazing videos mate

Reason they are signed off is cause the developers would rather take the hits on the repairs then miss a deadline

Your commentary is on par, hilarious 😂

We just had the snag man show up for my place of work after a shop rennovation was performed and the stuff they tried to get away with in my store along with what builders do in general is insane. Tried to charge for 3 times the flooring being done but didnt actually level any of the flooring they did correctly just put a few boards over it, claimed for anti mould layers they didnt install, claimed for roofing work they only did 1/4 of, claimed for emergency lighting they didnt install. Hell they tried to claim for emergency exit signs which had gone yellow with age and had been in the store for years! It boggles my mind how as a country we just let construction have such obvious corruption and abuses. It terrifies me of what happens for internal things like electrical wiring and so on you cant easily see! Even on that I have a story, my dad got an electrical shock out of his oven vent duct when he was cleaning the oven because someone decided it would be fine to just drill through the wall and not check for wires.... The builders attempted to claim it wasnt possible until an electrician showed up and found amps running through it even with power to the kitchen cut off. Bare in mind, new build just moved into of course and my dad had a heart condition from long term stress anyway.

I needed that! Thank you! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

and all that just for only£350k

@commanchi7

6 ай бұрын

The only upside is it brings the new owners previous property (which is likely better built) onto the market for purchase.

@miko4759

6 ай бұрын

I live in a house build in 1960 and the quality is rather poor. UK standard is low overall houses build without proper isolation gathering lots of moisture causing mold on the walls etc. Absolutely disgusting. Go to East Europe and you gonna be so surprised how good quality houses they got. Proper isolation helps to save up to 40% more energy than here in the UK even tho they have much lower temperatures during winter time.

"Absolute picnic blanket" haha going to use that one!

Sloppy dangerous patch jobs and unqualified level mistakes, but at the same time remember that they're being forced to rush to meet unrealistic deadlines set by their greedy corrupt companies, I've heard stories of big dog housing builders putting in offers on old farms and buildings and a miraculous amount that declined were not long after burned down, thus being bulldozed and reluctantly selling the land

If i sell a car with no brakes, someone dies, i got to prison. If i build and sell a house that falls down in a light breeze, someone dies, nothing. How tf is that allowed?

@ReneSchickbauer

6 ай бұрын

Actually, it isn]t. The builder if responsible for any flaws and is responsible for any accidents that might happen due to their negligence.

@MasterIceyy

6 ай бұрын

@@ReneSchickbauer Except in this country complaining to your local authorities gets you no where, they just bog you down with bullshit, your only options become court where you'll spend all your money, or just shutting up. Ombudsman doesn't want to hear about it, Council don't want to know, MP couldn't give 2 fucks

That's just the stuff you see now. Probably plenty more surprises in 10 years.

I bought a new build house from a major house builder 6 years ago and the quality of some of the work was laughable. The shower in the family bathroom was so out of alignment it was ridiculous. Who thought that it was an acceptable thing to sign off? It felt like the builders had a deadline to hit to finish and thought it was completely ok to just wack things in and leave. Once they had our money they didn't care. I had to hound the builders every day to get them back to fix over 20 snags. Just poor quality control. I would never buy a new build ever again.

If quality control measures aren't up to scratch then it's obvious many workers, no matter what line of work they're in, will continue to cut corners since they're essentially allowed to.

The whole house is a right off. Knock down and rebuild.

Pay peanuts get monkeys, im a plasterer that has worked on site a few times, never again, they pay you next to nothing and hold your money and dont pay you, i would never work site again in my life and would never buy a new build.

I think that one in the middle is Tenerife got me in stitches

We are in the middle of a competency crisis, that stretches across multiple sectors and industries. The average tradesman in the U.K. is middle age. It’s the same in engineering. If this is the quality of the work now, I dread to think what it will be like when the Boomers and Gen-X have completely retired.

I recognise a thing or two (or ten)! My issue is that even if they're paid per hour and not per job, it happens so often they take massive shortcuts with little to no attention to detail. Rarely get what you pay for.

You should really let everyone know which house builder this is, otherwise they'll be parting with their hard earned cash for this pile of shite.

I remember when houses were built and people weren't allowed to move in for six months to allow the building to settle. Now they through them up in five minutes and people are in straight away. The bricks are white with salt and the plaster cracks. I wouldn't buy a new build for all the money in the world.

It's because the site agents want them finished asap so they get there bonuses for handovers 😢

Ive been a joiner for 20 years & just started on a new build site (self employed) & the standard of work that somepeople are willing to accept is disgusting.

@bengreen2200

6 ай бұрын

Does depend on the builder, the David Wilson sites I worked on were pretty strict on quality control.... Should be though tbf the houses are massively over priced

@Harry-nc7zi

6 ай бұрын

@bengreen2200 unfortunately it's the 'price work' generation, a massive push just too get them done & dusted at all levels of the build. I've just got on price but still taking my time & doing things correctly. 😁🤞

@bengreen2200

6 ай бұрын

@@Harry-nc7zi yeah you're 100% right, price work as a concept encourages corner cutting. Should be a on sensible day rate with a bonus incentive if your work is of good quality. I tend to just stick to commercial work with day rate, like to know what I'm going to get paid 😂

I used to be on ten pound an hour as a labourer (not on site though) but I have helped with jobs just like all the ones in a new build. I wonder.if the chippys n.dry liners have a labourer and get them to do the work?

At least you’ll never be out of a job mate

always entertaining (though i'm crying into my cornflakes as we've been having a right nightmare trying to get our new build developers - Watkin Jones - to address things on our snagging report for the last 3-4 months, and it's like drawing blood out of a stone)

@megaturtlegames

6 ай бұрын

They use NHBC Warranty for the 10 year warranty, have you tried contacting them?

@patrick_h_lauke

6 ай бұрын

@@megaturtlegamesyeah that's my next stage if they don't get a move on ... all we've had is promises that they'll fix things, but they never get around to it...

The wood butcher was going for the vegetarian finish

Wombel Flap is a classic!!! 😂

best part is all these houses are costing 500k but are built to a 50k standard

@krisdevos3231

6 ай бұрын

Not far off the overall cost to build them either.

@G4RY1159

6 ай бұрын

Massive demand

Is there any chance you could film in landscape ? I’m wasting tv screen

@jammydodger1449

6 ай бұрын

Think it's because he makes these for his instagram/tiktok so tends to film portrait.

There is on naming and shaming going on though. We need the names of these bad developers so we can avoid.

And this is why I'm stopping being a tradesman and going back to welding. New builds are nothing but problems, nothing is square, dodgy leaky plumbing, everything takes so long to do if you want to do it properly repairing everyone else's bodgy work. With in 40 years I doubt most new builds will be fit to live in, never buy a new build.

@420styletomatoes6

6 ай бұрын

@repairwins people are in for a rude awakening in the decades to come, you can see the cement hasn't been mixed or applied properly and it's just going to crumble over time.

@420styletomatoes6

6 ай бұрын

Says 2 replies but their is only one, I notice this on a lot of KZread comment's these day's, the censorship is real.

Just F-ING love this guy. ❤ he’s RRRRRIdiculus.

Shouldn't have to rely on inspection from the developers themselves. Considering the extortionate cost of housing, you should be able to inspect it yourself or get in you're own independent examiner BEFORE you put your final signature, with a fully returnable deposit of the company faces a massive fine without being taken to court to get it. Poxy country is always set up in favour of banks solicitors and cowboys

@TheWebstaff

6 ай бұрын

The problem is some other spanner monkeys would buy it if you didn't.

rushing out to buy a new home ,i do feel sorry and angry that anyone struggling to get on the housing ladder should be saddled with the dross shown here

Are there decent trades persons working on these properties or is it continuous bob a job week?

Where can i get a job as a building inspector for a major housebuilder as it seems to be a very easy and quick job! I have a feeling my eyesight will let me down as its excellent!

I'm dealing with the NHBC now for things I found in the warranty period. Would you be willing to go over a five tear old property so I can also take anything you find to the NHBC?

As an EX-new build salesman, I can honestly say this sort of stuff is often the least of the problems. Horrible industry.

Would love to hear your thoughts on that Barrett David Wilson development in Cambridge!

And people still buy them. I mean they don't even have a pavement in the majority of cases 🤦‍♂️

@curranhouse

6 ай бұрын

Yep new houses you just walk out into the road... but it's a 5 mph road now and the drivers fault the kids are dead 😂😂😂

@MrDirkles

6 ай бұрын

@@curranhouse they are all 30 mph near me🤔

Was it better 10, 15 years ago or do we just hear about it more now thanks to the Internet and channels like these?

@RonTodd-gb1eo

6 ай бұрын

Build standards just as bad but I am convinced modern designs worse - trying to get more houses onto less land.

i feel you need to add the word weapon to your vocab. ie who is the complete weapon thats done this?

which is why you NEVER buy a new build. Buy one with copper pipes instead...that's something of a novelty these days!

wait for the site to finish and buy the show home, simples! 🤠🐮🐄

people will buy them regardless, so thats why they do it

@Monaleenian

6 ай бұрын

Exactly. Actions speak louder than words. People reach into their pockets to pay for these piles of crap so we can only assume that they are happy with them or that they were too lazy to do a basic inspection of the property before handing over the money!

I swear these buildiers cut out holes in tiles for pipes with a sledgehammer.

So What happens after you have done these inspections. If they have already been signed off, do you have the authority to tell them it needs fixing or is it too late?

As an ironmongery technician at an on site assembly line for firedoors, The hinge at 0:45 made me actually want to punch someone XD

Aahhhh persimmons the perfectionists😂😂

And its not just the houses, everywhere you look in the UK (cars, solicitors, MP's, GP's, etc.) people have stopped doing a good days work for a good days pay!!!

@mmmmmmmmmm.m.

6 ай бұрын

I was putting up a fence for a customer and the lady next door was haveing paving put down in the back garden the lady said to me she had 4 quotes 3 off them expensive one not she went with the cheap on you should seen the job when finished what a mess off a job l tryed to talk to the lads doing her paving but they spoke polish .

@joshb7415

6 ай бұрын

well when a 'good days pay' cant buy you a packet of crisps anymore whats the point

@thomasmanning477

6 ай бұрын

Nah, working class people still do a hard days work.. the trouble is they don't get a good days pay any more.. hence, shit like you see in the video. Rushing around to try and make ends meet on tight price work.

@ksmith660

6 ай бұрын

The trouble is that the UK has become a third-world country, and that's why wages have fallen. I blame both Labour and Conservative for their short-term planning and importing millions of cheap labour...

@mmmmmmmmmm.m.

6 ай бұрын

@@ksmith660 lol third world country 😂🤣

The apocalypse finish. 😂😂😂

Trouble is site agents don’t give a dam nowadays I work on site some and its absolutely ridiculous , no idea of quality!

When you see the state of some of these builds and you think to yourself as an amateur that you could do a better job at it then the builders that were employed you know something is seriously wrong. Where are these people coming from? Are they certified in any way at all or just picked up from the street corner as laborers?!

That's strange, I've watched and had the notification twice for this same video 🤔

And the government wants to build more houses and quicker, if Labour get in they want to build even more. And so the standard will keep going down and down. No matter how good rates are for the trades, you can’t force more of a percentage of the population to want to belong to the construction industry.

If I was to build an extension to my house and when finished. A inspector then would check all. Why is it not happening here

The batenburg finish 😂

I'm assuming that all this type of botchery would be picked up by the prospective buyers mortgage company surveyor? Or am I being naive?! Does the NHBC even work anymore?

@jakereich

6 ай бұрын

I don't think the mortgage company do much more than check the house exists, and that the valuation is vaguely close. When we bought our house (first buy), we were told that mortgage companies often just look on Google street view.

@turboslag

6 ай бұрын

@@jakereich Good grief, that is shocking! Seems like no one likes to get off their ar5e these days! So, best course of action is for the prospective buyer to arrange their own survey.