Off Topic Away from the manager and takeover I’m so excited, somehow I bought a new house today

We will of course need to know what extras you have bought?

We had carpets, an outside light, an outside tap and towel rails when we bought ours in December last year

 

Being such an amiable person, I'm sure you'll be a great neighbour.

 

Congrats Janey

Marguerite's a pretty name

 

Just moved to Penshaw from Sr5, loving it!

 

Lots of problems with the cussins part of the site. Some of the concrete floors on a few of the houses broke up and in one other the floor dropped 8". No issue with the plastering that Im aware of

 

Was amazed how much my car insurance went down!

 

I went from sr8 to dh6 which was 2 miles away and my house and car insurance halved

 

Congratulations

 

Well done Janey, good news indeed, best wishes for your house move

 

Your house must be near the bottom of the site, is that right? I worked as far down as the Cussins show house which I plastered as well.

Last time I was over that way I was plastering on the Persimmon site next door to your place, I did a couple of them then they got some crappy contractors in and they really ****ed the site up. The quality of finishing was shocking. there's not many good spreads around these days.

Ronnie

 

No mine is further on in the site. I've just done a lot of work in the earlier houses on the heating systems as the contractors ****ed up massively. They got chased

 

Yeh I do remember the plumbers we had weren't great at that time.

Anyway I didn't want to derail Janey's new home thread.

Ronnie

 

Marguerite is a name I always struggled to spell, was after me Auntie, who got Rita. I always had to ring me dad to ask how to spell it I cried today when I was asked and couldn’t ring him. Excitement, joy, sadness I suppose xx

 

Congratulations Janey, about time we had some good news around here. Hope everything goes smoothly.

 

They aren’t built yet so definitely not plastered yet

 

Haven’t had the options day yet, can’t wait

 

We got a glossy brochure, could have spent a fortune, but had to be sensible

 

I’ve got £8000 to spend as upgrades, can’t wait but I totally get what you get about upgrades xx

 

I think our first run through the book was about £18000

Ended up about £4500

 

That post was about things that happened nearly 20 years ago, sorry if I caused confusion. I retired to Spain last year aged 59 cos I'm knackered after working on the sites for 43 years. I'll not be plastering any new houses ever again lol. Miller homes aren't plastered now they will be dry lined, not as good as being plastered but generally less settlement cracks so less snagging for the customer.

I hope you love your new home it is a great experience moving into a brand new place with everything so clean and fresh.

Ronnie