Quite interested why “never again”?
I’ll never remember all the issues, there were so many!.
Was over 3 months late, and we’d sold our flat so had to move into very expensive holiday accomodation on a week to week basis.
Was a local builder operating under an Irish developer, builder went bust before road, landscaping etc was finished, that’s 10 years ago now, and it’s still surrounded by unfinished wasteground.
House itself had so many issues, was a detached bungalow, sat up higher than the house next door, with no retaining wall between houses, maybe 4 feet higher and just a banking between, I was always concerned about how long that would take to start subsiding.
Drains collapsed.
Tiling around showers in both ensuite and bathroom started to drop, gyproc wasn’t studded properly, damp from shower had got in and it all started to fall to bits.
There was something not right with insulation in house either. 2006 was a bloody hot summer, I came home from work one evening, at 11pm, and it was 35 degrees in the house. There was no loft hatch to check, but I’m pretty sure the roof space wasn’t insulated, so heat coming straight down through.
Myself and another guy a few doors up I’m now friends with decided to bail out as housing market was looking shaky, spruced the place up, hid all the issues and just managed to sell before the shit hit the fan.
10 years ago now, and there’s a few been lying for sale for a couple of years, for less than what I paid for mine, poor buggers.
Sad thing is, the local builder was a decent guy, the wee Irish developer fella was a bloody crook, has since had numerous companies, all have gone tits up, he just keeps starting another up.
Oh, and maybe it was just where I was, but there definitely seemed to be some strange buggers who lived on the estate too, lots of really insular selfish bastards. Is that a new estate thing?.