Crazy world!
Just finishing a barn conversion I started on 1.6.20 - Covid affected building material supplies have been a constant problem.
As Brownbaker says, plasterboard was a nightmare at the beginning of the year, cement is now. Still, it kept me very busy during the various lockdowns.
And 1500 ‘new’ houses have been built all around the town, with many more to come.
It’s really depressing reading the local residents’ Facebook comments on the problems they face with their new build houses. How developers get away with such shoddy work is beyond my simple mind. In the 500 house estate around us the drains are being rebuilt as they don’t work, the gardens flood, the fence posts rot, gutter down pipes are not connected to soakaways, the render falls off, the heating doesn’t work, the roofs leak etc, etc. And people have paid £400 to £700k for these houses, with tiny overlooked gardens, and garages too small to take a medium sized car, so they park all along the roads, which are shared with bikes and people as no pavements are deemed necessary.
Rant over.
