Post: Getting Started by Steve

[Tony]

We too purchased a George Taylor Wimpey Home recently for our sin’s! The nightmare of the past 6 months since buying this horrible home has taken it’s toll on our health.

The day of taking ownership – they flooded the ground floor of the house and made every effort to prevent us from knowing what had taken place by delaying us from arriving in order to dry-out the house as quickly as possible!

The entire house was so badly constructed that the list of defects would take me days to compile but here’s just a few – together with refusing to install two windows which were indicated within the show home, and via the floor plans…

Whilst still deciding on the house, and before purchasing it. Wimpey’s fitters caused a Gas Leak within the kitchen but never alerted anyone of the leak. Simply, they installed the gas cooker directly in-front of the leak and sold us the home thereafter! The kitchen was also completely designed incorrctly, and after several weeks of challenging difficulties with Wimpey’s – they finally accepted that the kitchen design of their “Warwick” homes was in error. Wimpey’s decided to refit the kitchenafter a month had passed of us living with this situation, and this is when the Gas Leak was finally discovered by EMERGENCY GAS CALL-OUT ENGINEERS! who shut the property down and declared it “IMMEDIATELY DANGEROUS” We learnt of this formal position some weeks later as we were kept apart from those engineers by Wimpey’s on-site manager in order for him to declare to them that he was the owner of our home instead in order for the formal notice to be handed to him instead of us! He then stuffed the notice behind the gas meter on the outside of the house in order for us not to see it or the seriousness of the condition of the house. The gas meter was also changed without us being aware as this too was actioned by him after repeating his position of being the owner of our home to those who changed it.

The chiminey almost fell-off the roof as it wasn’t secured before they mortored it. The central henating system started-up whenever it wanted too – even after it was completely shut-down! The water pressure is so poor that if you are taking a shower, and someone turns-on a tap elsewhere – the shower stops!

skirting boards around the house at different levels are different sizes, and when linked together they are unable too match. The wash basins & pedestals are different sizes and don’t come together from their slots underneath – as well as hanging further over to one side because they are not cental.

The loft-space is a patchwork quilt of joins nailed together in order to form the A-FRAME ROOF which constantly twists & squeaks whenever there’s a slightly windy day.

The floors to each level of the house have many, many, many holes cut-out whilst they were adding pipes and leaving others redundant in the voids, only to then glue the cut-outs back in-place rather than replace the floor panels.

These are just a selection of horrors from buying a George Taylor Wimpey Home, and if anyone ever asks me if they too should buy a new home. I would tell them to run, run and never look back or you will regret it for the rest of your life. I would rather live in a Cardboard Box (as it would be safer) than a George Taylor Wimpey Home!
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Getting Started by Steve