These photographs show that the quality of new homes in 2011 is as bad as ever. Bricklayers cannot build a soldier arch properly (Charles Church) and tradesmen seem incapable of fixing fittings in line, level or vertical (Bellway). Each year, on a minimum average, defects like these, are overlooked or ignored over 1500 times by the house builder’s own staff. See table below.
This is in addition to the 30 or so tradesmen working on the site each day.
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The minimum number of times the above defects are ignored
or missed by a house builder’s own staff in a typical year.
Site Manager |
262 |
@once a day |
Assistant Site Manager |
524 |
@twice a day |
Contracts Manager |
84 |
@7 site visits a month |
Construction Director |
5 |
site visits a year |
Managing Director |
2 |
site visits a year |
Site sales negotiator |
524 |
@twice a day |
Sales Director |
10 |
site visits a year |
Area sales manager |
52 |
@one site visit a week |
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