Buying a house

[Thedreamer]

Apologies for my ignorance here, but are modern developed houses, timber frame or block?

Edited December 7, 2018 by Thedreamer

[Jeremy Harris]

56 minutes ago, Thedreamer said:

Apologies for my ignorance here, but are modern developed houses, timber frame or block?

 

Both, at least around here.  We've got a lot of big new developments that have gone up around Salisbury in the past few years, and at a guess I'd say around 20 to 30% were timber frame, with rendered block or brick exteriors, some with partial timber cladding, the rest were block and brick.

 

From just looking at them whilst passing by I'd say that the block and brick ones have the most glaring faults  - most appeared to have missing insulation, poor cavity closings etc.  The timber frame ones looked marginally better, but that may well be because it's not so obvious from outside when the insulation is missing or has big gaps.