Archive for Tony
Case Study Request
I write for House Beautiful Magazine and am doing a research on families who have had major problems since they bought their new build home, or who have renovated their properties with a builder who didn’t charge VAT who turned out to be a cowboy and didn’t do the job properly.
If you’re female, aged […]
Nik’s Experience
Nick Clayton:
“When I started blogging about the new-build buying process I was quite sceptical. But, after five months, I’m definitely converted.
I had to keep an accurate online diary of what was happening, whom I spoke to, what they said, and when they said it.
This proved to be especially useful when I was forced to go […]
Adding Featured Articles with Photos
This is a really cool feature of this site, well I think so anyway. The first thing you need to do is to write a post and it to a category that you may need to add called Featured.
You then need to find a suitable photograph. The photo needs to be cropped […]
Getting Started
This is a quick start quide for bloggers on New Home Blogs.
1. Visit this link to get a blog. (Choose a blog name carefully as this cannot be changed. It is a good idea to use the name of your housebuilder as this will help your blog rank well in Google and the […]
Kelly’s Redrow Home
We have been in our Redrow “House From Hell” for 16 months and are finally laying our first flooring (tiled kitchen). We are still living out of cardboard boxes and are about to pay 3k out of our own pockets (all of our savings…) to have our upstairs floors fixed as the beams are at […]
10Mar2008 | Tony | 2 comments | Continued
Lewis’s Crest Nicholson Home
Me and my girlfriend put down 1,000 on a new house on Saturday 3rd June on a Crest Nicholson development in Suffolk. We only got the house by chance as the person who had reserved the house (and paid the non-refundable 1,000) had to pull out as she could no longer afford it. We were […]
10Mar2008 | Tony | 0 comments | Continued
Nik Clayton’s Crest Nicholson Home
This is Nik Clayton’s blog of his experience of buying a new Crest Nicholson Homes property. He started blogging in April 2005 and here is an extract from his first blog post: “So we’ve been looking around for the past couple of weeks and think we’ve found a style of house and developer (Persimmon) we […]
10Mar2008 | Tony | 0 comments | Continued
Kath and Scott Turner’s David Wilson Home
In May Scott and Kath Turner became the proud parents of twins, as such we very quickly came to the conclusion that we had run out of space in our current house and also realised that we are not in a fantastic catchment area for schools. We decided to try and market our house but […]
10Mar2008 | Tony | 0 comments | Continued
Craig Williamson’s Bloor Home
Craig Williamson is the author of campus comedy novel ‘A Foreign Education’. His uniquely-English perspective on American college life was cultivated during a year spent studying abroad at the University of Colorado. He has since returned frequently to the United States and travelled extensively around the country. This is his blog about Bloor Homes. This […]
10Mar2008 | Tony | 0 comments | Continued
Excellent new UK business blog on new homes
According to Stuart Bruce on A PR Guru’s Musings this blog is:
“One of the best examples of a small business blogging I’ve seen. And from a UK company. It looks like the Brits are finally getting their act together.”
Kelly is not alone in experiencing Redrows lack of commitment to customer service and rectifying poor and shoddy workmanship since ...