Parking Issue

LeeUK said:
Those 3 story houses are god awful and so compact inside when you'd expect them to be roomy because 3 floors.

Again with 3 bedroom houses and 4 bedroom houses where they both have the same square footage, just that the rooms are smaller in the 4 bedroom.
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Not entirely true. My house is 3 stories with 7 beds. The smallest room can comfortably take a king-size bed and other furniture with space to move around.
 
Dis86 said:
Not entirely true. My house is 3 stories with 7 beds. The smallest room can comfortably take a king-size bed and other furniture with space to move around.
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This does not sound like a conventional new build house on an estate of the sort being discussed, unless it's a 6 bed with a downstairs study you're calling a bedroom :D
 
[TW]Fox said:
This does not sound like a conventional new build house on an estate of the sort being discussed, unless it's a 6 bed with a downstairs study you're calling a bedroom :D
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It's a new-build with all bedrooms on floors 1 and 2. Downstairs is open plan (minus the garages obvs).
 
[TW]Fox said:
Almost as if you should buy a house based on the square footage, not something arbitrary like the number of bedrooms, if you're after something spacious.

There is a wide range of property types - some have small rooms, some have big rooms. Some are narrow with 3 floors, some are bigger with 3 floors. It just isn't sensible to state blanket things like 'the 3 storey houses are tiny inside' or 'no newbuild has parking'.
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[TW]Fox said:
This does not sound like a conventional new build house on an estate of the sort being discussed, unless it's a 6 bed with a downstairs study you're calling a bedroom :D
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Does not compute
 
7 bed new build houses are exceptionally rare on a typical estate by the major builders, what doesn't compute about that?

7 bed stuff is usually the work of smaller more bespoke builders on nicer non-typical estate layouts.
 
[TW]Fox said:
Almost as if you should buy a house based on the square footage, not something arbitrary like the number of bedrooms, if you're after something spacious.

There is a wide range of property types - some have small rooms, some have big rooms. Some are narrow with 3 floors, some are bigger with 3 floors. It just isn't sensible to state blanket things like 'the 3 storey houses are tiny inside' or 'no newbuild has parking'.
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It's a shame rightmove doesn't have an option for this. Our house has had 2 extensions and is now a reasonably comfortable ~130 sq metres. It's a 3 bed detached but could easily now be a 4 or 5 bed detached as we've added 2 extra rooms and a utility. Going on somewhere like rightmove, quite a few 4 bed houses are smaller than that it's a joke but you only know by clicking on them as there's no filter option. I've seen some that have a garden about the size of my living room:eek:.
 
theone8181 said:
It's a shame rightmove doesn't have an option for this. Our house has had 2 extensions and is now a reasonably comfortable ~130 sq metres. It's a 3 bed detached but could easily now be a 4 or 5 bed detached as we've added 2 extra rooms and a utility. Going on somewhere like rightmove, quite a few 4 bed houses are smaller than that it's a joke but you only know by clicking on them as there's no filter option. I've seen some that have a garden about the size of my living room:eek:.
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Our old house was like this. 3 bed detached but was bigger than our next-door neighbours 4 bed. Both were original with no extensions.
 
[TW]Fox said:
Almost as if you should buy a house based on the square footage, not something arbitrary like the number of bedrooms, if you're after something spacious.

There is a wide range of property types - some have small rooms, some have big rooms. Some are narrow with 3 floors, some are bigger with 3 floors. It just isn't sensible to state blanket things like 'the 3 storey houses are tiny inside' or 'no newbuild has parking'.
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This what all the new builds round here are like though. Tiny tiny rooms.
 
LeeUK said:
This what all the new builds round here are like though. Tiny tiny rooms.
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Looked at them all have you? Most sites are a wide mix of house types - some small with small rooms, some big with lots of small rooms, some big with fewer larger rooms instead.

If you give me a clue as to the vague area you live I bet a quick browse of a few developers websites will show this to be the case.
 
theone8181 said:
It's a shame rightmove doesn't have an option for this. Our house has had 2 extensions and is now a reasonably comfortable ~130 sq metres. It's a 3 bed detached but could easily now be a 4 or 5 bed detached as we've added 2 extra rooms and a utility. Going on somewhere like rightmove, quite a few 4 bed houses are smaller than that it's a joke but you only know by clicking on them as there's no filter option. I've seen some that have a garden about the size of my living room:eek:.
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It is even worse that they don't have a filter for double garages. We are looking for a 4 bed detached but having to search through all the tiny garages in annoying.
 
Alibaba99 said:
Plenty of 4 bed houses are built with an integral single garage though. Which also means that they don't have much downstairs space compared to the number of bedrooms.
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Integral garages put me off for that reason, also estate agents then count that as internal space, whereas a garage that's stuck on the side isn't.
 
adam cool dude said:
It is even worse that they don't have a filter for double garages. We are looking for a 4 bed detached but having to search through all the tiny garages in annoying.
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Yep from the handfull of newbuilds we viewed not one of the garages were wide enough too fit a car in and open the doors to get out :D
Most of them with cars outside were a really good example to show that that most cars wont fit in a newbuild garage haha!

Even some of the double ones we was whilst wide enough to fit a car, they then chipped them in half length wise :/
 
~Divine~Wind~ said:
Yep from the handfull of newbuilds we viewed not one of the garages were wide enough too fit a car in and open the doors to get out :D
Most of them with cars outside were a really good example to show that that most cars wont fit in a newbuild garage haha!

Even some of the double ones we was whilst wide enough to fit a car, they then chipped them in half length wise :/
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Noticed the same. A few salespeople got a little upset when I pointed out they couldn't fit a focus nevermind anything bigger. One got very upset when I pointed out that their literature showing a c class could be, from a legal point of view, misleading as a c class wouldn't fit either through the door or lengthwise.
 
Dis86 said:
Noticed the same. A few salespeople got a little upset when I pointed out they couldn't fit a focus nevermind anything bigger. One got very upset when I pointed out that their literature showing a c class could be, from a legal point of view, misleading as a c class wouldn't fit either through the door or lengthwise.
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How would you fit a car lengthwise through a garage door? Powerslide?
 
I'm sure I saw a picture of a new build with a garage, and there was a fence and no drive infront of it :p. I know cars are getting bigger but imo being able to fit in a medium sized car should be the bare minimum, some look like they'd struggle to fit a smart car in, either straight or sideways :cry:
 
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