A lot of these people are probably paid for productivity hence rushing and then you get bad quality. We have this at my place when contractors are on the job, as they get paid per job.
I don't disagree with you, but the site management team should be pulling poor workmanship and not letting it go, they have all the power to stop this.
How do these homes get "signed"off by so called professionals. Sadly the people buying homes like this have a life time of work to pay them off whilst the Wilson team strolls off into the sunset buying politicians as they go.
This is by no means the usual standard for *DAVID WILSON HOMES* in my region West Midlands they’re very particular & this would never be allowed to happen. This is awful, I myself am a decorator & have been painting new build *WILSON* houses for 22 years & I’ve never seen anything like this.
It's appalling but, I see ground work being done, and then hey presto, a new estate a month later, who is putting the pressure on for a quick turn around?
A useless diy'er would have probably achieved a better finish. Just visited my daughter's new build and so far the snagging list is minimal, albeit there is a huge bulge in a wall that has subsequently been tiled. One fault but three trades at fault here, the joiner who built the wall, the plasterer for plastering it and the tiler for tiling over it! Not good enough and very disappointing to see.
To achieve a 5 star rating the builders produce 'show' fixes for the NHBC appraisers. Some of the nonsense I see to 'please' the NHBC man is laughable, painting screw heads to restraint straps to make them stand out is just one mind blowing example. Do NHBC men think these sort of gimmicks show a competent builder ??? .......yea right! I'm afraid we are being led down the path of an ever escalating load of nonsense in the building industry with management thinking quality is improving when in fact it's going backwards.
Hi Steve, yes painting screw heads is nonsense, purely for pride in the job scoring along with other silly things they do. What is more important as you say is to produce a quality build without silly gimmicks which look good but serve no practical purpose. The NHBC needs to get away from this and start to check quality and compliance with building regulations and their standards, something which they don't do.
@@LivelyProfessionalServices Agreed if I was inspecting a first fix and saw nonsense like screw head painting and stencilling everywhere rather than being impressed I would be thinking this firm enjoy wasting money on gimmicks. It's always the same now, an infinite budget on nonsense then fit £10 doors with ten bob latches,
I can't believe someone actually bought this house. The training Colleges should use this as an example of the standard that the modern "Tradesman" is satisfied with, but let the apprentices know in no uncertain terms that this standard is NOT ACCEPTABLE! I think standards are going to deteriorate even further as more houses are thrown up to keep up with the demand for the housing of the migrant population. Mind you , the migrants probably wouldn't accept this house!!!!!!
One of the major problems is there are not that many apprentices, and schools don't promote the industry, most kids today want an office job working on a computer.
Absolutely nothing in this video is “shocking” in the true meaning of the word, is it? It’s all just typical poor workmanship and lack of attention to detail that you’ll find on every site of every volume housebuilder in the country. Too many subcontractors who have no real interest in the quality of the finished product is the underlying cause for me - if these companies employed their own labour a lot of the underlying poor workmanship that needs remedial work wouldn’t happen in the first place. The other issue is they’re often still working on buildings right up to the day before completion and the new owner moving in, so even if the site manager spots something he’ll chance his arm because he hasn’t got time to get anyone to fix it. It’s almost certainly cheaper for them to fix things after legal completion than build in a couple of weeks to get everything right. We lived on a new build estate from early on and watched about 150 houses go up - even my 10 year old daughter would look at some of the plots and say “that’s a fail house” because there were obvious defects! HBF 5 star builder too.
I Fully agree with you, this is normal on most sites and in my opinion, it is getting worse with some developers. The end result is newly built house buyers are expected to accept this and be happy with it. If they were buying a brand new vehicle and it was presented to them in the state of some new builds you wouldn't take it out of the showroom, So why are newly built homeowners expected to take possession of a poorly built house, because the industry continually gets away with it. The housebuilding industry in this country needs to be fully regulated by the Government and for the warranty providers to be disbanded and a fully independent Clerk of Works inspecting the build sequence with no ties whatsoever to any of the housebuilders.
That roof is criminal 🙈
music a bit loud on this one.
I am not going to use the music again.
Guess new houses are more renewable than i thought, so renewable they require replaced before moving in...
That flush fitting spot , the alleged Electrician who fitted it! Did he have any arms?? 🤔
David Wilson Holmes! Are they related to Helen Keller building Services? 🤣
Who Knows maybe.
What's with the background music? Shocking.
Trying something new for you.
A lot of these people are probably paid for productivity hence rushing and then you get bad quality. We have this at my place when contractors are on the job, as they get paid per job.
I don't disagree with you, but the site management team should be pulling poor workmanship and not letting it go, they have all the power to stop this.
Poor reputation dw homes.
Poor site management is the problem here!!😡😡
I agree with you, poor quality homes like this one are certainly down to poor site management.
How do these homes get "signed"off by so called professionals. Sadly the people buying homes like this have a life time of work to pay them off whilst the Wilson team strolls off into the sunset buying politicians as they go.
This is by no means the usual standard for *DAVID WILSON HOMES* in my region West Midlands they’re very particular & this would never be allowed to happen.
This is awful, I myself am a decorator & have been painting new build *WILSON* houses for 22 years & I’ve never seen anything like this.
It's appalling but, I see ground work being done, and then hey presto, a new estate a month later, who is putting the pressure on for a quick turn around?
Usually the Board of Directors and the Share Holders.
Another "newel post " fail. When you pull up just tick' failed' in the newel section and save some time....
There are a number of issues I could just tick fail with Andrew, no one is checking during the build sequence at the different stages.
3 stars terrible build quality and numerous issues. Absolutely Shocking. It’s ridiculous.
No pride at all!
A useless diy'er would have probably achieved a better finish.
Just visited my daughter's new build and so far the snagging list is minimal, albeit there is a huge bulge in a wall that has subsequently been tiled. One fault but three trades at fault here, the joiner who built the wall, the plasterer for plastering it and the tiler for tiling over it! Not good enough and very disappointing to see.
It is disappointing but if that is the only major item and the rest are minimal it sounds like you have a good site team.
Could do without the music.
Noted, just trying something new.
To achieve a 5 star rating the builders produce 'show' fixes for the NHBC appraisers. Some of the nonsense I see to 'please' the NHBC man is laughable, painting screw heads to restraint straps to make them stand out is just one mind blowing example. Do NHBC men think these sort of gimmicks show a competent builder ??? .......yea right! I'm afraid we are being led down the path of an ever escalating load of nonsense in the building industry with management thinking quality is improving when in fact it's going backwards.
Hi Steve, yes painting screw heads is nonsense, purely for pride in the job scoring along with other silly things they do. What is more important as you say is to produce a quality build without silly gimmicks which look good but serve no practical purpose. The NHBC needs to get away from this and start to check quality and compliance with building regulations and their standards, something which they don't do.
@@LivelyProfessionalServices Agreed if I was inspecting a first fix and saw nonsense like screw head painting and stencilling everywhere rather than being impressed I would be thinking this firm enjoy wasting money on gimmicks. It's always the same now, an infinite budget on nonsense then fit £10 doors with ten bob latches,
Never buy a new build.
I can't believe someone actually bought this house. The training Colleges should use this as an example of the standard that the modern "Tradesman" is satisfied with, but let the apprentices know in no uncertain terms that this standard is NOT ACCEPTABLE! I think standards are going to deteriorate even further as more houses are thrown up to keep up with the demand for the housing of the migrant population. Mind you , the migrants probably wouldn't accept this house!!!!!!
One of the major problems is there are not that many apprentices, and schools don't promote the industry, most kids today want an office job working on a computer.
Stop the music, background noise.
Will do.
Sorry didn't mean to sound so abrupt😘👍@@LivelyProfessionalServices
Absolutely nothing in this video is “shocking” in the true meaning of the word, is it? It’s all just typical poor workmanship and lack of attention to detail that you’ll find on every site of every volume housebuilder in the country. Too many subcontractors who have no real interest in the quality of the finished product is the underlying cause for me - if these companies employed their own labour a lot of the underlying poor workmanship that needs remedial work wouldn’t happen in the first place. The other issue is they’re often still working on buildings right up to the day before completion and the new owner moving in, so even if the site manager spots something he’ll chance his arm because he hasn’t got time to get anyone to fix it. It’s almost certainly cheaper for them to fix things after legal completion than build in a couple of weeks to get everything right. We lived on a new build estate from early on and watched about 150 houses go up - even my 10 year old daughter would look at some of the plots and say “that’s a fail house” because there were obvious defects! HBF 5 star builder too.
I Fully agree with you, this is normal on most sites and in my opinion, it is getting worse with some developers. The end result is newly built house buyers are expected to accept this and be happy with it. If they were buying a brand new vehicle and it was presented to them in the state of some new builds you wouldn't take it out of the showroom, So why are newly built homeowners expected to take possession of a poorly built house, because the industry continually gets away with it.
The housebuilding industry in this country needs to be fully regulated by the Government and for the warranty providers to be disbanded and a fully independent Clerk of Works inspecting the build sequence with no ties whatsoever to any of the housebuilders.