Poor work and still not finished - Page 2

finishthework · 5th February 2010, 01:20

Was it a critism? Excelling at not building very well at the moment.
Todays progress: painting the garage door.

Tony · 6th February 2010, 12:14

I was just being funny...

finishthework · 6th February 2010, 13:24

I know.
Removed a bucket full of broken bricks today that had fallen off the scaffolding into the garden. Barbeque anyone.....?

GKandR4CH · 9th February 2010, 11:43

Tony, what do you expect? Taylor Wimpey are the UK's NO 1 Cowboy Housing Developer.
The NHBC are now arriving this week (after months of forcing them) to inspect our illegal windows in the upstairs of our home.
They are all below 800mm, no safety catches, no toughened glass and no lockable handles.
Does this sound like a company who excel at building? No is the answer.
And the Developer still refuses to fix the windows.
Our home should never have passed a CML or been given a certificate.
mybryanthomeiscrap.co.uk

Tony · 11th February 2010, 00:57

I don't think your house is alone. I have heard stories of these certificates being issued after a chat with the site manager rather than their being an actual inspection.

Tony

Tony · 11th February 2010, 00:58

Have you seen this:

TV Programme looking for problem homes

blastu2 · 12th February 2010, 11:58

We too purchased a George Taylor Wimpey home for our sins, and wished we had never heard of them.

We purchased our home, only for them to flood the ground floor on the day of ownership! We equally purchased the home with a major Gas Leak (unknown to ourselves or anyone else) the kitchen was designed and installed to a standard which meant NO appliances could be fitted in their alloted spaces as they were too narrow from the expected sizes. The sink unit was a single bowl instead of a one and a half size bowl. The units underneath were water damaged and not replaced. The central heating system operated independently, even when the power was switched-off! large amounts of mortar fell from the roof as the chimney was secured. The staircase moves away from the wall whenever you attempt to climb them. The water pressure is so poor - that if you are taking a shower, and someone turns a tap on, the shower then stops completely, and it's meant to be Taylor Wimpey's special "high-pressure-system" the shower cubical was installed up-side-down. The wash basins are all different sizes, and don't match-up with the pedistals they are sitting on. we have dozens of holes which were cut-out of floors to each room in order for them to cut the main pipe that controlled the heating - they left the old pipe in situ, and simply duplicated the new pipe alongside it. The cut-outs were glued back into the floor. The gas leak was finally found after living in the house for four weeks, and only found due to the defective condition of the design of the kitchen, if we hadn't of encountered the difficulties of installing our appliances then the only time the leak would have been found would be from the explosion!

The on-site manager declared himself the owner of our home in order to prevent us from being made aware of the "immediately dangerous" declaration notice by the emergency gas call-out service - he took the notice from them and stuffed it behind our gas meter on the outside of the house, only to be found by ourselves some weeks later when attempting to gain meter readings. We then gained a fraudulent investigation against us via our utility company as they thought we were trying to gain free gas supply because the readings never matched-up with the previous readings. We discovered that the same on-site manager had our gas meter exchanged without our knowledge, and again declared himself the owner of our home to the company who exchanged it. The last reading was never known, and the new meter began with all zero's!

This is the expectation you can expect from George Taylor Wimpey. We are currently in battle with them at this time. Keep your fingers crossed, and watch this space!

blastu2 · 12th February 2010, 12:01

We too purchased a George Taylor Wimpey home for our sins, and wished we had never heard of them.

We purchased our home, only for them to flood the ground floor on the day of ownership! We equally purchased the home with a major Gas Leak (unknown to ourselves or anyone else) the kitchen was designed and installed to a standard which meant NO appliances could be fitted in their alloted spaces as they were too narrow from the expected sizes. The sink unit was a single bowl instead of a one and a half size bowl. The units underneath were water damaged and not replaced. The central heating system operated independently, even when the power was switched-off! large amounts of mortar fell from the roof as the chimney was secured. The staircase moves away from the wall whenever you attempt to climb them. The water pressure is so poor - that if you are taking a shower, and someone turns a tap on, the shower then stops completely, and it's meant to be Taylor Wimpey's special "high-pressure-system" the shower cubical was installed up-side-down. The wash basins are all different sizes, and don't match-up with the pedistals they are sitting on. we have dozens of holes which were cut-out of floors to each room in order for them to cut the main pipe that controlled the heating - they left the old pipe in situ, and simply duplicated the new pipe alongside it. The cut-outs were glued back into the floor. The gas leak was finally found after living in the house for four weeks, and only found due to the defective condition of the design of the kitchen, if we hadn't of encountered the difficulties of installing our appliances then the only time the leak would have been found would be from the explosion!

The on-site manager declared himself the owner of our home in order to prevent us from being made aware of the "immediately dangerous" declaration notice by the emergency gas call-out service - he took the notice from them and stuffed it behind our gas meter on the outside of the house, only to be found by ourselves some weeks later when attempting to gain meter readings. We then gained a fraudulent investigation against us via our utility company as they thought we were trying to gain free gas supply because the readings never matched-up with the previous readings. We discovered that the same on-site manager had our gas meter exchanged without our knowledge, and again declared himself the owner of our home to the company who exchanged it. The last reading was never known, and the new meter began with all zero's!

This is the expectation you can expect from George Taylor Wimpey. We are currently in battle with them at this time. Keep your fingers crossed, and watch this space![/QUOTE]

finishthework · 12th February 2010, 12:51

My missing wardrobe door seems insignificant compared to your major problems. Have you raised concern and put in a claim with the NHBC. Methinks we should both follow the link below and get on TV.

blastu2 · 12th February 2010, 13:28

We took the matter to the NHBC, who in-turn made a list of serious defects, we refused to allow Taylor Wimpey in the house again in order to make further repairs!!! Taylor Wimpey have breached our Data Protection by sending a personal letter in an attachment within an email, and then sending it to us and 13 others at the same time! We even received a call to our Ex-Directory & TPS Registered Telephone Number from their contractor after gaining it from an independent report that should never have included it - who challenged a Gas Safe Register report after they discovered the gas cooker was installed ilegally. The report has been found correct.

We have been insulted by the managing director of Taylor Wimpey in a letter which he then sent to many others beyond ourselves. The Information Commissioners Office has upheld our complaint against him, and found that they have breached our Data Protection.

The loft-space is held together with hundreds of standard nails which have been declared incorrect. We had to have the house rewired for telephone cable by BT as the cable used was very poor. We have no internal wiring for TV use, just sockets on the wall! A number of rooms have unsecured flooring which rocks as you walk on them. internal walls which section-off rooms have dropped away from the ceilings, and long cracks dropping down from ceilings onto door-frames - rooms directly underneath those that have dropped are taking the pressure from above which is compressing the door-frames to those rooms and stopping doors from closing.

We could go on but we are sure you would become bored after even further lists of horrors.

We remain in a stalemate position with Taylor Wimpey, and now been forced to take the matter to court.