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Pictures and commentary on the miserable state of New Build houses. DMs open for shaming pictures of wet walls 💦, small windows 🪟 and sad gardens 🥀.
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Perspective:
It's 2022 and you didn't buy the premium "Natural Sunlight" optional extra package.
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A cool half a million in Nottingham; try to tell me we're not in a bubble.
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What are the odds the drainage is crap, the turf dies within 8 weeks, and everyone paves over their allotted outdoor pacing yard?
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When you pay £250,000 for a newbuild, but you don't splash out for the luxury window package 🪟🎩
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"[It looks like] a place where books are incinerated, not kept"
👑King Charles III on the carbuncle Birmingham Library (demolished in 2016).
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Wouldn't it be nice if the developers threw in a fruit tree in at the bottom of each garden.
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£499,950 for this dead-shrub adorned, loose-bricked, cracked door, sopping-damp tOwNhOuSe in Bristol.
("Charterhouse Yard" by )
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It's been a good year for dunking on shit developers and their newbuilds. Here's some of my favourites from the last year
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Credit to the eternally tasteless ig: davboss_ for this masterclass.
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When will this madness end?
These walls need a parapet eave to shield from the rain. It's not rocket science. Why do architects allow this to keep happening?
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The problem with depressing architecture like this is it means no one will love it, respect it, or fight for it.
It will become a deteriorating, piss sodden liminal space that embarrasses locals.
We are pleased to authorise Thanet Parkway Station, ahead of its opening on Monday 31 July 2023.
More details ➡️
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A sad story in four photographs. Why would you cut a tree like that down?
@sailoremily
I’m actually shocked by this. It was for sale in 2017 and then over 6 years they destroyed the garden. Such a shame!
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Single-skin, lime mortar house bought for £180k, encased in cement mortar and given the "Live, Laugh, Love" spec decor. £400k.
Two years after sealing the walls in cement, the walls will be rotten in damp.
Oh well 💩
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Newbuild multi-faith area in the free waiting zone
This week, we have opened a new multi-faith area in the free waiting zone.
Located just off the Silver Zone roundabout, the new area provides customers with a private space to reflect and pray whilst waiting to collect friends, family or loved ones.
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Ninian Park houses in Cardiff. Built around ten years ago. Massive staining from elevation exposure to diesel-soot saturated rain. Would be solved with a 40cm eave overhang. Developers don't care though.
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Imagine building houses opposite an industrial estate. 🏭🧑🏭🏠
Credit
@frostybecky
& tiktok: rachelsdiaries
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Diagnosis of why this new house is suffering damp in this corner?
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That beautiful doorway arch is lost forever, as are all the other soft bricks, rendered over by cement.
Deano Architecture.
The before and after photos for a “stunning new renovation” I’ve just seen on Instagram
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Coming soon to a new estate near you 🫵🤑
Recent housing in Western Sydney, where summer temps get close to 50C.
Tarmac. Black roofs. Hardly a tree in sight. An urban heat disaster waiting to happen.
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There's a shortage of bungalows in the UK as the population ages and more people struggle with stairs.
Here's a lovely specimen where access is only via these outside steps.
🤔
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If houses could talk, what would this be saying?
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When you accidentally paste the neighbour's house into your SketchUp model, but it's 4pm on Friday
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The warranty for new-builds should be at least the length of the first mortgage. Anything less is a signal that the building is designed to fail quickly 🙄
Homeowners to get 15 years to sue for bad workmanship, housing minister says
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'the building was "not considered to be fit for purpose". '
Every company director involved in this, from the construction firm to the beneficial owner of the freehold, should be jailed for life.
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Don't let anyone tell you this is is a one off. Friends don't let friends buy (or walk near) new builds. Credit: ig new_home_quality_control
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@jonburkeUK
@The_RHS
@michaelgove
@BenGoldsmith
@ZacGoldsmith
@BringFrontsBack
@createstreets
@GCHUOxford
@theTCPA
@LGAcomms
@Daubeneyfields
@UrbanGreeningEU
You don't even need to fully tarmac the parking space. You can lay grid pavers down along the wheel track, and leave the middle for grass and flowers.
Much better for drainage, aesthetics the birds and the bees🐝
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This is it. This is peak Newbuild.
£499,000 outside Swansea
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Design by spreadsheet; not because they look like spreadsheet cells, but because when you compile all the building and planning requirements into a spreadsheet (like insulation, density, etc.) and then sort by "Cheapest" you get this.
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Pillow sized window and ceiling (LED) light really brings it together
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@ki11deer
New houses have strict energy efficiency requirements, so instead of putting in quality triple glazing, developers simply make the window smaller to avoid heat loss.
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It is a developmental milestone for children to draw the '4 window, door and chimney'🏠
Neurologists believe that if a child is unable to master this drawing by the time they're 18, their career prospects might be limited to being architects (or planning officers at
@NPTCouncil
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Missing overhangs and broken drainage. Two things that basically define newbuild architecture 2000-2020.
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"lovely"
It looks like the inside of a stud wall before the plasterboard is fitted.
7 years of study to become an architect, and they present to the public realm the ugly components of a wall normally concealed (while presumably decorating the interior). Aesthetic moral hazard.
A lovely contemporary addition to an Edinburgh street (still far too rare a thing…)
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So-called "Tofu Dreg" construction is a phenomena in China where building elements are substituted for polystyrene (even structural parts in some cases). It's heartbreaking to see it make its way to the UK, especially in light of Grenfell
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When new build goes completely as expected
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Make sure to check your builder uses quality Pritt-Stick for gluing your window apron to the wall (you don't want to use the cheap knock-off they use in schools).
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everyday we stray further from god's light
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A nice easy one to wrap up the year. New development in Llangadog, Wales. SA19 9HP.
Question; in the absence of any storm-drains on the highway, where will the rain water that passes over the dropped-kerb and impermeable tarmac end up considering the house is 2m below the road?
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🚨 Polystyrene-reinforced concrete window architraves.
@TravelodgeUK
is this true?
A window architrave on the new Travelodge in Richmond. Almost all of them on the west elevation are cracked and falling apart revealing that they are just flimsy, concrete moulds filled with polystyrene. Useless, less than 10 years old.
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Built around the time of the English civil war, this ~370yo house has been TRANSFORMED into a shopping centre dermaplaning and teeth whitening clinic.
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It's thoughtful of the developer to include a dropped kerb for when this outrageous front lawn is rightfully turned into a driveway.🚗
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Ignore for a moment the jobsworth handiwork on the (polystyrene🤫) arch. Look past the wonky face of the disjointed windows.
The crime here is the 90° bend in the rain downpipe . That will drip, drip, drip louder than a drum at night and send someone insane
Credit
@itskatiebon
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Criminal negligence from whoever planned this house.
@MiddleAgedPlan
@HateNewbuild
My house is at the bottom of a hill, in a valley - one day this happened. This was rather alarming.
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What it could have been if we didn't lose architecture to coprophiliacs, dead-souled accountants and bureaucrats.
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Yeah the gold leaf looks nice and shiny now, but you wait, it'll be stained with damp streaks in a year. Should have gone with anthracite grey for the timeless look
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I was asked by Persimmon Homes to delete the last post of their shoddy workmanship, to protect the privacy of the owner who is already suffering enough having bought a Persimmon. I've been told however Persimmon are "putting it right" - they didn't say how though 🤔
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Genuine question: are local planning officers thick?
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We're like heirs to a civilization long since lost, not sure what to do with the ruins we stumble upon.
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Newbuild flat with windows obscured by a giant billboard 20" away
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Parking situation notwithstanding, the "Graphite Grey" window fad will be the "Avacado Green" bath fashion crime of our generation.
It'll be painfully out of style in five years - condemned to being associated with faux-riche newbuilds and PCP'd BMW 1-Series'
On my regular scrolls through Rightmove I come across shit like this.
Do people really prefer owning multiple cars to having gardens??
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More to the point, why aren't telephone services buried in ducts for new builds when the road is dug up already?
@HateNewbuild
nice drive, big enough for two cars.
Just need to negotiate the telegraph pole.
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Daily reminder that EPCs are junk, and we'll never meet energy efficiency goals with current bent homebuilders.
Also, the trend of fitting bathrooms (in particular shower trays) into timber-framed rooms is going to result in long-term wet rot as no one maintains caulk seals 100%
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Destroyed at the tender age of 23. Proof of my theory that new buildings are designed to survive the length of their first mortgage (Millennium Commission/Lottery bent financing of the Dome notwithstanding).
(1999 is Newbuild. Fight me)
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"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."
- Tom Stoppard. (Although I think Stoppard gives too much credit to modernists by suggesting they are inspired...)
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"...but what is proposed is like a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend"
The wise king coining carbuncle architecture in 1984 when Peter Ahrends tried to wreck Trafalgar Square with its awful massing and incongruous style.
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Newbuild housing in the UK is a game of equity musical chairs.
You get in, and hope to get out with increased equity BEFORE the penetrating damp is revealed to have caused catastrophic structural damage.
For these flats in Swansea I think the owners are left holding the baby
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Building on fields labelled "Liable to Flood" is a common new build habit. Take this example from
@NPTCouncil
where they plan to build a primary school on land known to flood 🌊🧒🏫
(map from 1888 before 20,000 houses upstream tarmacked their gardens into slip-and-slides)
@CheerfulNemesis
@HateNewbuild
It’s rare that there isn’t something or other wonky about new-built sites. Next to a motorway or sink estate, on a floodplain, on the old lead factory, or on land marked on maps “never build here”.
Like the old Indian burial ground trope come true & adapted for the UK!
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What sort of thoughts do you think people will enjoy when sitting here, looking at this Excel graph of a building.
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Can someone fill me in on the economics of absolutely gigantic windows, their cost, and the effect they have on heating a house in the UK?
Must be like a greenhouse during the day
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Daily reminder: don't buy new builds.
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Developers build ugly social housing because they consider the men and women, mothers and fathers, lovers and workers, children and elderly not worthy of more. We used to build more inspiring public toilets, and now we degrade people in these cow sheds.
They disgrace us all.
Work is well underway at the Red House site, West Green Road. Take a look at the 46 council homes under construction.
Visit for all the latest updates.
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Not Newbuild, but general housing stock Hate.
The mismanagement of the UK's housing stock fabric, through ignorant modifications like cement renders, closed airbricks and blocked-up ventilation is a scandal.
The only place mold should be expected in UK houses is on stale bread.
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"New build insulation question"
"Picture is the bedroom floor above the garage. I was surprised to see huge gaps in the insulation - is this normal / will the insulation do much with those gaps?"
"The house is a new build finished in Nov 2021"
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Estate agents losing their mind at the prospect of vendors not paying £1,000s to list their house's photos on Rightmove.
Is the future direct listing; cutting out the middle-man?
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I'd say there's a 50-50 chance the owner actually contacted Persimmon to ask me to remove the images. 🙄
In other news, here's a story from the archives where Persimmon sacked a whistleblowing builder who last shared images of their dogshit construction
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Garden hedge maze, without the hedges
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