lizzie

I paid a professional PM

Yes OK I know that and thought I had! Difference to me with brick and block is that you have time to go and measure as work progresses that way you can spot problems and rectify. The TF issue is its all of a hurry over a few days and you cant get at it to see or check and then they are gone.

Get some CCTV I love mine! I can see the garden and I can see if I have left the car boot open and all sorts and I can see it when I am out so I know if someone is at the gate. I'm a CCTV groupie....love to see the night vision with the animal life pottering around.

It was a personal opinion based on my own experience of TF construction. I said I would not have another TF house due to my experience with this one. I know I am not alone but I am not citing others experiences just my own which was of a poor quality shoddy job. If you are saying I am responsible for this poor quality job then that does not say much for the provider and the standards they set. I was let down on quality control yes and there is no doubt it should have been questioned but for reasons I did not know it wasn't. I as the paying customer lost out all ways and the poor TF and slab job has impacted us right through the build and so my own view of TF is I would not use it again due to my personal experience. If a TF provider thinks it Ok to do a shoddy job and leave the customer to find the problems, PM or not, then that is not a good TF supplier in my opinion, they should have a minimum standard and work to that but this discussion is about methods rather than individual providers. Tar maybe but I feel bruised by my whole TF experience and so would not use this method again. With brick and block such fundamental problems would be very obvious as construction progressed even to the untrained eye (mine). I accept my view of the TF construction method is entirely coloured by my bad experience but that is the consequence of what happened to me. There are good and bad in everything but as my experience was bad that is my view and right or wrong it is how I feel.

probably badly expressed what I mean is they could not have left us with a lop sided house and walked away as TF erectors do. If brickies had build it out of square and lop sided then it would be obvious as construction progressed and remedial action able to be undertaken rather than a whole house thrown up in a few days and problems left behind including flat deck roof with a big dip in it. My previous house (built for us) was block and brick and all walls were square and house was straight, you would have thought that would be the norm but seems not with TF and not only me seem to have problems with the TF erectors doing a shoddy job and just making it fit rather than making sure it is straight and square and true. My walls are well out, I have slivers of tiles around the edges where tiler has had to make up for the rooms being out....this is external walls.

If I was doing it again I would not used TF. Our house is not square or plumb and it goes back to the problem slab and the TF erectors putting the house up lopsided on the undulating slab. Brick/block is much less forgiving and they would not have got away with such a shoddy job.

I would do it while you are first fixing and try and get a termination point in your plant room or utility. Even you on your own may find it is benefit and for the cost of the cable runs you are future proofing a bit. Generally electricians are not the best to advise on if its worth it or not.

I do understand and I have no wish for you to go through that hell.....just looked at your blog.......when checking levels dont just check where walls go check the whole thing we had dips and humps all over. A simple check is some water and if you get lakes (like us) then its very evident. Not sure if you can do water on wet slab though. Ours showed from rain the following day.

I would watch them very carefully and have your level at the ready to check it

@JSHarris Just give Iresa details and leave it at that no-one will be checking anything. When you get your transfer information then give that to the purchaser. Details of your electricity provider should not hold up the house sale, its not like a fensa cert. As long as on line box tickers have something to input that should be fine.

If I were younger and closer would have booked a viewing it looks great

@Pete no need to ask who your window manufacturer is. We too had a dreadful supplier/installer of these beautiful windows all sorts of issues and had to use retention to get another company in to sort and they will never be perfect but at least they are in and don't leak now. Our supplier/installer was also removed from manufacturer list at the time we were trying to resolve all this - the removal from list was nothing to do with us - I looked the other day and see they have been reinstated.

Great result, well done. Enjoy the wine.

I think you will be lucky to build a house for £1000sqm.

UPDATE....another BH triumph. All sorted. Plumber came yesterday. He changed waste(I muttered McAlpine at him LOL), I now have McAlpine waste and electrician is coming next week to relocate socket. Thank you superstars!

Wow good idea we may be able to do that

@Nickfromwales thank you I will investigate......

big chunky square ones..... huge flow off 250sqm roof into two downpipes. Sounds like a giantic rain chain!

Thank you @Bitpipe good to hear a review a few months on. I have steel edging haunched in (contains slate chips over drainage around slab) and my tarmac contractors did the base when they did our road It was done to spec resin people wanted so all resin lot have to do is a one day lay....its a lot of sqm though! I'm getting the additional grip treatment too. He said no walking on it for a day and 3-4 days for vehicles. Got any pics of yours?

Its resin bound....25 year guarantee LOL...installer has been in business doing driveways for over 20 years (Obvs not resin that long as its hadn't been invented!). Its an insurance backed guarantee so should be worth the paper. I wouldn't go for the cheaper version they just scatter aggregate on top of resin and it comes loose and wears off. Its all permeable SUDS compliant and UV stable so its wont yellow.

I've booked the install for this week......fingers crossed they don't come wearing stetsons and riding bucking bronco's like the plumbers!

Sadly that is not able to address my problem....back to the drawing board!

@Triple07 looks like a poor job from your photos. I would not pay the balance pending resolution. Not sure what can be done now its in situ. If they fill it in some way it may not last.

Someone had this issue very recently.... I cant find the the thread sorry. Was there an answer to the problem? First real rain since we moved in and its like bongo drums. Lucky its not outside the bedroom!

Thanks @ProDave I cant get it to stay together it just wont hold so have to wait for cowboy plumber......bet he doesnt show at 9am in the morning as promised