Thread: New home - Persimmon?

Ah but your grounds got a new name.

pas_55 wrote: Ah but your grounds got a new name. no I was talking about work , I'm working for a government owned Railway again.

wow, thanks guys for these replys - some really great advice there. We are going back up to this new site to have a second look around. I will defiantly take the advice of knocking on some peoples door's and asking the questions - better to hear it from the horses mouth. Charles Church were also building, but the homes are the same and so are the builder/site managers etc, so not too fussed really about them....or should I? I've...

kmpowell wrote: Interesting thread! Has anybody got any knowledge of Redrow homes and their quality these days? I forgot about Redrow. They did indeed have the same reputation as Bryant at one stage and Bryant, felt that they were the only real competitor in terms of Spec and quality and to be fair I would have bought one, but again this was a while ago. The thing is, "locally" they all use the same subcontractors and site...

A friend of mine has an expensive Persimmons built and the quality of the build is very poor with lots of issue. Most of the problems seem to stem form the fact that Persimmons use a lot of sub contractors who no not seem to work well together or are poor project managed. The end result in this particular £750k is quite shocking when you look closely at the finish and overall quality of work. I personally would steer clear of Persimmons!

imo NHBC not worth the paper try claiming, also as said above, most builders use sub contractors check out other houses on the site it will give you an idea and see what other people who may have just moved in think. Always remember when we were looking 8yrs ago looked at charles church the premium end of persimmons and the finish on the show house was the pits.

ratty wrote: Most of the problems seem to stem form the fact that Persimmons use a lot of sub contractors who no not seem to work well together or are poor project managed. I personally would steer clear of Persimmons! all builders use sub-contractors im a sparks and work on many different new build sites for lots of different builders

i know nothing about their build quality but i do know that their share value has gone from 500 down to 430 and is now 460 !!!!

A lot of the reasons for poor quality is the low prices given to the subbies for their works which at the moment is getting worse as the builders do not want their margins cut. I have been in the trade 38 years its gonna get worse believe me. There is always somebody who will do it cheaper then quality suffers.

As you live in the area, why not knock on a few doors and enquire how people view the quality of their homes?