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New home quality continues to fall, reveals survey

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  1. Quality Housing depends on quality inspections, by experienced qualified surveyors being made part of the procurement process, adequate resources set aside for this and very importantly realistic time frames for construction of a quality nature to be achieved. Equally use of correct materials and checks such are being used need to be undertaken.. otherwise set aside £7m and go round in circles !

  2. Don’t get me going on this subject because I could speak volumes but sites are being put into impossible positions to complete homes to the standards required. Deadlines are becoming ridiculous with 4 wks to complete properties from roof being the norm these days, just because some MD somewhere needs to get his “numbers in” – unfortunately it’s the customer who suffers

  3. D.Diskin, you certainly hit the nail on the head in terms of my experiences. You get told just stick these guys in the house for a week and we will see how they get on. If they are totally crap we will get shot of them, but if they are half decent we will get the painter to sort it out or the renderer. Then expected to fill out the internal QA forms to say that all is wonderful so that you hit the KPI target that has been set.
    Been in this game for many years now and it just does not get any better due to the boom and bust nature of the job. In boom times it’s all about getting the job done as quickly as possible and in bust times its about just getting some work at ridiculously low prices and corners are cut because the bosses are again under pressure to make some sort of margin on the job.
    There are some really good sounding initiatives on paper at least that purport to dealing with quality, but sometimes this does not actually work its way onto the site, usually because in the boom time the quality guys are ignored because of the pressure to achieve handovers and in bust times the qa guys have been paid off because they are an overhead.

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