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Kelly’s Redrow Home

Tony — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:08:54 +0000

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 different heights across the house making the chipboard floors badly unlevel (our last remaining major fault with the house, redrow eventually conceded a fault existed & botched the repair & left it as it was).

We have suffered the same repeated botched repair attempts for every fault with our donwstairs concrete floors being screeded a total of 7 times before an outside contractor finally fixed the entire botttom floor (eigth repair) as all the concrete was also so badly unlevel that floor coverings couldnt be laid. We still have carpet and vinyl waiting in the store warehouses (after a year 3 months they arent too happy either).

Lewis’s Crest Nicholson Home

Tony — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:04:51 +0000

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 in the right place at the right time and managed to get a link-detached 3 bed house (joined only by the garage) for 165,000 plus 5% deopsit paid by Crest. Read about my experiences with Crest Nicholson Homes.

Nik Clayton’s Crest Nicholson Home

Tony — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:59:26 +0000

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 can deal with. We think. So over the coming months I’m planning on chronicling the process here. Hopefully this might be useful information to someone in the future, and maybe someone reading an entry might be able to offer up a word or two of wisdom.”

Kath and Scott Turner’s David Wilson Home

Tony — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:57:14 +0000

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 it very quickly became apparent that the whole house hunting and selling process was a major pain when you have two new ickle people to take care of. So the story begins… Read the rest of their story about David Wilson Homes.

Craig Williamson’s Bloor Home

Tony — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:54:59 +0000

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 is from his first post about Bloor Homes:

I will be using this blog to share the new home experience with you in all of its financially crippling glory. Together we will go through the ups (”…darling, I think we need a 42 inch TV for our new lounge…”) and the downs (”…a granite worktop costs how much?”), the highs (”…maybe even 50 inches, I’m sure it would fit…”) and the lows (”…just for a worktop, are you sure?”), as well as the joy (”…42 inches of pure plasma pleasure – I’m so happy!”) and the tears (”…it’s a piece of rock for god’s sake – how can a piece of rock cost so much?”).

I hope to cover snagging issues, moving in, settling in, buying things, installing things, breaking things, fixing things – basically, anything and everything related to buying and living in a new home. I hope you can join me for the ride.