Buying a new build,

[daytripping]

Anyone have any experience in this?

 

I'm not sure which extras to pay for at this stage, seems you just get the very basics in the price, stuff like fitted wardrobes they'll be charging through the nose for so I'll arrange that myself but metal switches and plug sockets I'm thinking i'll take the hit on, same goes for internal door to the garage. The tile packages are confusing, just go for the basics?

 

Anything I really should go for at the build stage? the catalogue of extras is huge and fecking pricey.

 

Any tips and advice appreciated.

[Jigot]

My advice to you Neebs and every one else, would be never buy the first and never buy the last houses on a new development.

[daytripping]

Why J??

[Jigot]

Fuck ups and things needing ironing out at the start. At the end of a development it's a case of using up material that's left (shite) and the fact that the workforce will have their minds on the next move. I'd buy an ex-sales hoose masel, which contradicts my opinion of buying the first units Ah ken, but you get them cheaper.

[Ke1t]

This house is going for about a hundred grand UK.

 

 

[Bluto10]

Hi Dayts, bluto10 here.

 

I don't have any tips,Bourne of experience. But I can advise you one thing g. Buy low my good man and sell ruddy high.

 

Best of British.

 

BlutoTen

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[daytripping]

A fine house Kelt, where is it??

 

I'm not going to say how much I'm spending but it's enough to make me break out in cold sweats. Sure it will be worth it at the end of the day and the market seems to be pretty much one way right now.

[daytripping]

Hi Dayts, bluto10 here.

 

I don't have any tips,Bourne of experience. But I can advise you one thing g. Buy low my good man and sell ruddy high.

 

Best of British.

 

BlutoTen

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I think this will be my place of residence for a long time, so buy high and keep is the plan.

 

Thanks for the advice though bro, appreciated.

[Ke1t]

A fine house Kelt, where is it??

 

I'm not going to say how much I'm spending but it's enough to make me break out in cold sweats. Sure it will be worth it at the end of the day and the market seems to be pretty much one way right now.

 

It's in Chicago, in an upmarket area.

 

Downside is that it's 'haunted'.

 

Man like yourself shouldn't be bothered by a few ghosties, like.

[Bluto10]

If he couldn't handle them, highly likely, I'd clean up the mess for him

[Jigot]

This house is going for about a hundred grand UK.

 

 

Looks like a high maintenance hoose to me Kelt, exterior wise. Mind you, there's a train load of ex-Forth Bridge penters looking for a berth.

[Ke1t]

If he couldn't handle them, highly likely, I'd clean up the mess for him

 

How would you discern between spooky ghosty and alcohol-induced hallucination, though?

 

Haunted hoose would be perfect for you, I'm thinking.

 

Shit flying around your head, hands reaching out of the telly, voices coming out of thin air telling you to kill the neighbours... Bluto sitting in the middle of it just thinking he's a wee bit pissed is all.

 

Ghosts eventually give up and find someone sober to haunt.

[Ke1t]

Looks like a high maintenance hoose to me Kelt, exterior wise. Mind you, there's a train load of ex-Forth Bridge penters looking for a berth.

 

couple of hundred bucks will get you a team of highly skilled Mexicans who'll have that fucker primed and pinted in a day.

[Jigot]

Fuck, Kelt. Mexicans are skilled right enough.They're shit hot at crammin' whole families into the smallest of cars never mind watermelon trucks but surely a ladder can only take so many people, even Mexican peepeel?

[daytripping]

 

How would you discern between spooky ghosty and alcohol-induced hallucination, though?

 

Haunted hoose would be perfect for you, I'm thinking.

 

Shit flying around your head, hands reaching out of the telly, voices coming out of thin air telling you to kill the neighbours... Bluto sitting in the middle of it just thinking he's a wee bit pissed is all.

 

Ghosts eventually give up and find someone sober to haunt.

 

It looks haunted, almost like a Amityville type hoose, wouldn't put me off, I'd like the character.

[Dandyesque]

New builds are shite

 

Doors made from cardboard, etc

[Jigot]

New builds are shite

 

Doors made from cardboard, etc

Correct, Dee! That's why I bought this 140 year auld hoose, designed and built, under the entire supervision of Mackintosh, himself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ah've just dug oot the deeds and it appears that my hoose was indeed a project ,carried out in it's entirety by

Oor Wullie, Fat Boab, Wee Eck and the Interior was the vision of a drug fueled PC Murdoch.

[The Boofon]

New builds are shite

 

Doors made from cardboard, etc

 

Amen brother. Fuck that.

 

 

Correct, Dee! That's why I bought this 140 year auld hoose, designed and built, under the entire supervision of Mackintosh, himself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ah've just dug oot the deeds and it appears that my hoose was indeed a project ,carried out in it's entirety by

Oor Wullie, Fat Boab, Wee Eck and the Interior was the vision of a drug fueled PC Murdoch.

 

 

New build houses are for people with no soul.

[Ke1t]

 

 

Amen brother. Fuck that.

 

 

 

 

 

New build houses are for people with no soul.

 

James Brown had his place at Beech Island custom built.

 

Are you saying James Brown had no soul.

 

Is that what you're saying?

 

Are you saying that?

 

You watch this video and have a think about what you've done.

 

[tup]

Living in one of these brochure designed neighbourhoods that spring up everywhere is my vision of hell on earth.

[Ke1t]

Living in one of these brochure designed neighbourhoods that spring up everywhere is my vision of hell on earth.

 

An entire area of about 10,000 identical houses, identical lawns, and identical nuclear families doesn't appeal?

 

[The Boofon]

That's a Nazi neighbourhood if I recall correctly?

[Bluto10]

Living in one of these brochure designed neighbourhoods that spring up everywhere is my vision of hell on earth.

Eh? Wick!?

[Dandyesque]

Eh? Wick!?

 

[Dandyesque]

 

James Brown had his place at Beech Island custom built.

 

Are you saying James Brown had no soul.

 

Is that what you're saying?

 

Are you saying that?

 

You watch this video and have a think about what you've done.

 

 

 

Isn't everywhere in the US a new build?

[King Street Loon]

I think most of these new housing schemes look soulless and devoid of any character.

They all look the same.

[tup]

Plus the houses are cheap as fuck to build with low quality materials.

 

No wonder spiv housebuilders are falling over themselves to rattle them up.

[Dandyesque]

Plus the houses are cheap as fuck to build with low quality materials.

 

No wonder spiv housebuilders are falling over themselves to rattle them up.

 

And some think Milne should build us a new stadium....

[don corleone]

A colleague of mine has been in a new build for 6 months now. Says its been a total nightmare due to constant leaks and floods because of the shoddy pipe work throughout the entire building and most recently the massive settling cracks throughout his flat that have appeared over the last month.

[360]

I think most of these new housing schemes look soulless and devoid of any character.

They all look the same.

 

A house is what you make of it.

 

It may look like your next door neighbour's house, but the memories and events are all unique.

 

I think what you said is very shallow, and it doesn't reflect very well on you.