Time to move on...not getting hopes up too much though!

House looks lovely.... me and my girlfriend are in the middle of buying a new build house. Ignore the people who tell you never to buy a new build. These are normally the people who are basing this on the reputation when it was 2007-2009, when corners and quality were cut due to the financial crisis, and mass selling houses to the HA

the big plus with yours is that its got a drive infront of the house, which is rare for a new build these days. do you know how wide your garage is? im pretty sure the regulations changed this year for the garages to be 3 metres wide minimum.

Try not and let your bad experience regarding the mortgage put you off... everyone goes through nightmares when buying any house regardless if its a new build or old.

What solicitor did you use? (sorry if this was answered before)
 
Well mortgage has been agreed and faxed through to Solicitors! :)

Just all the searches and paperwork to push through now, happy days!

Fishthrower actually unsure on the width of garage sorry!

Went to have a look around the house yesterday, very very pleased however sadly no pictures as was walking around with the builder and site manager.
 
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*waves at you from great denham*

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Lol you are just up the road then,

We are currently on phase one at Bedford Meadows David Wilson side.
Our house has sold and just got the mortgage in place for the new place!! :D so happy days.

With the school being completed and open our house went up from 240K to 265K in the space of a year, so been really lucky!! New place we snagged for 294K where as other identical plots are now 306K

Cant wait to get into the new place as its wired Fibre to the property on the 2nd phase! I currently get 6mb down 1mb up lol.


Glad to hear things are progressing GinG, what stage is the house at? Did you get it wired for Ethernet?

I get on very well with our site manager as in the builders site manager, he is allowing me in with the sparky to wire all the ethernet i want :)

Going to put in an additional run from the living room to the kitchen to use Sky Magic Eye over Ethernet in addition to the runs to what will be the network cupboard.
 
Thanks mate, house is complete! Didn't get chance to get Ethernet in, by the time we reserved it was too late in the build. Not the be all and end all!

Going to have another look around this weekend so will try update with interior pics.
 
Ok so a few sneak peaks:

Kitchen / Diner



Garden:


We are very pleased with the fit and finish. A few nice little extras have been added FOC including an outside tap (yey!), and also soft close doors for the kitchen units. We opted out of an inbuilt fridge so eventually we could have an american fridge freezer.

We hope to exchange contracts this coming Friday with a view to complete within the next couple of weeks.

We are arranging the carpets to be fitted a day or so before in order to be ready to move straight in.

The great thing about it is we will be all settled in nicely for Christmas.
 
We are looking too, £800k to £850k in Ealing which gets us 1000sq ft if lucky in the specific areas we want.

Few gems we are viewing this weekend but the ones to date have been disappointing
 
Whats with the tiny tiny radiators they put in new houses these days, this so they can claim to be greener or something?
 
Ok so a few more pics for you guys:

Living Room:



Downstairs Toilet:



Entrance Hallway:


Iphone makes the hall look much darker than it is!

Main Bathroom:



En-Suite



Still unsure what to do for the floors, thinking Karndean over tiles but not sure yet.

Nice view out our the back bedrooms, including ours:


Yes that is a railway, however it is the Wensleydale railway so only about 5 trains a day go past including steam trains every now and then. To me this is a plus point as the train company is a lovely local one which travels up into the Dales...no 225 trains at 100mph!

Nice light & airy landing:


And another of the kitchen:


Downstairs Floorplan:


Upstairs Floorplan:
 
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Yeah I think this will be something I look into, for some reason the builder wouldnt budge and none of the houses have a doorway into the garage.
 
Looks nice, get the site manager to get the plumber in to move all the valves and TRVs on the towel radiators though, they're all sticking out and maybe they could be turned in, otherwise you'll be catching shins on them forever and hate it!

A couple of our neighbours over the road had doors knocked into the Garage from their kitchens (similar layout and TW build) does the job nicely, insulate (draft excluders etc) and pop a good lock on the door. Also seek approval for this to be done as a modification via their technical dept (costs about £100) otherwise you could be in breach of covenants on modifications and this could cause you problems if you go to sell in the future.

Oh, and if you do, see if you can get TW to sell (give) you a door and the frame timber, TW use a specific shape profile and its a royal pain to match, so if you can get it via the site then it's going to look more OEM (if that's a thing on a house)
 
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Chief Wiggum said:
Looks nice, get the site manager to get the plumber in to move all the valves and TRVs on the towel radiators though, they're all sticking out and maybe they could be turned in, otherwise you'll be catching shins on them forever and hate it!

A couple of our neighbours over the road had doors knocked into the Garage from their kitchens (similar layout and TW build) does the job nicely, insulate (draft excluders etc) and pop a good lock on the door. Also seek approval for this to be done as a modification via their technical dept (costs about £100) otherwise you could be in breach of covenants on modifications and this could cause you problems if you go to sell in the future.

Oh, and if you do, see if you can get TW to sell (give) you a door and the frame timber, TW use a specific shape profile and its a royal pain to match, so if you can get it via the site then it's going to look more OEM (if that's a thing on a house)
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Thanks for the tips, will have a look at it. I may need to check the actual space for the door, I am pretty certain there isn't as much space at the bottom of the stairs as is shown. It would be ideal though as eventually would like a shed and that could be a man cave!!
 
Looking good, GinG. Hoping to get in and see ours at the weekend as should be nearly done but is very similar downstairs. Need to measure up to get curtains ready to go up on day 1 but I hate putting poles up.
 
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