burst pipes anyone?

[Mike]

as with any complaint you'll have to get in touch with barratt first then if no joy get in touch with nhbc, i bought a new house some years ago, never again. you wouldnt believe the faults it had, one was when i got the gas fire fitted, when the plumber turned the gas on water came out! i also had to have half the house re-pebbledashed. how long you lived there grr? some of the warranties run out after 2 yrs but the mains sound like that would come under the 10 year nhbc cover

 

[Deleted member 9966]

as with any complaint you'll have to get in touch with barratt first then if no joy get in touch with nhbc, i bought a new house some years ago, never again. you wouldnt believe the faults it had, one was when i got the gas fire fitted, when the plumber turned the gas on water came out! i also had to have half the house re-pebbledashed. how long you lived there grr? some of the warranties run out after 2 yrs but the mains sound like that would come under the 10 year nhbc cover

we've been here nearly 3 years, but the house was built in 2003. we know it was the last house on the estate to be built because friends of ours used to live around the corner when the estate first went up in 2001. our plot was the site compound for the builders. basically where all the site offices and equipment/materials/diggers were kept.

 

[Mike]

hopefully you'll be still be covered but as you say it may lay with the water board as they've probably adopted the road by now

 

[doug boardley]

our rising main blew off just after the cold snap, luckily it was the wash-house one, and it blew off the stopcock at the bottom end, and luckily still we have a stopcock in the house to isolate it. So I guess that somewhere your main pipe has to rise above the minimum level to supply your house and this is where valves, taps, joints, olives and inserts are located, all potential pressure release valves really!

 

[Deleted member 9966]

hopefully you'll be still be covered but as you say it may lay with the water board as they've probably adopted the road by now

funnily enough Mike, our road still hasn't been adopted even 10 years after they started building and even considering our house was the last one to be built in 2003. I bet everybody tries to shirk their responsibilities.

 

[Mike]

with the new house i had, the council and water board adopted the street after about a year.

 

[Deleted member 9966]

with the new house i had, the council and water board adopted the street after about a year.

I know the council here are still in dispute with the house builder and the previous land owners. The whole thing makes me laugh. It's been going on for years and the amount of money wasted on this has been a joke. One side of the estate is adopted, but the other side built by Barratts is still in dispute. And because the council haven't adopted the roads, they refuse to maintain the communal areas in between the two sides and the playground. sometimes I wonder why we bothered moving :lol: