Reply to: Why do useless people design houses?

[r0bly0ns]

If only the ramp could go up to the front door? What with that nasty water obeying the laws of gravity and all that.

One of the many reasons we regretted buying the house.........

One of the things we liked were the decent room sizes (very decent for a 2 bed end terrace), however they were so badly laid out that the extra room was totally unusable!

[Dalek Supreme]

Already been done......

All new build houses now have to have at least one door that is accessable by wheelchair.

And you wonder who runs the planning department at the local town hall. All local authority planning officers were replaced by Dalek duplicates years ago.

Pathetic Earth creatures. You just carry on thinking it's for wheelchair access, but come the invasion....

Wait, I may have said too much.

[Chugnut]

Already been done......


All new build houses now have to have at least one door that is accessable by wheelchair.

Or at least that's what Ben Bailey told us when we complained about the fact that the 'Ramp' actually acted like a slide forcing water to collect around the front door.

I'll never buy a new build again.

If only the ramp could go up to the front door? What with that nasty water obeying the laws of gravity and all that.

[r0bly0ns]

Ouch. Won't be too long before they'll start putting "ramps" at the front and back doors then!

Already been done......


All new build houses now have to have at least one door that is accessable by wheelchair.

Or at least that's what Ben Bailey told us when we complained about the fact that the 'Ramp' actually acted like a slide forcing water to collect around the front door.

I'll never buy a new build again.

[Bagpuss]

Should that have been...

A) Houses
or
B) Trousers

No, I was just putting my teeth in

[miffy]

Old housers are much better

Should that have been...

A) Houses
or
B) Trousers

[Bagpuss]

Old housers are much better




for draughts, leaky roofs, creaky floor boards, damp, small kitchens, tiny box room bedrooms etc. etc.

[miffy]

Sockets in new builds have to be 450mm from the floor and light switches 1.2m. They look totally tulip.

Ouch. Won't be too long before they'll start putting "ramps" at the front and back doors then!

[Chugnut]

Much of this is all down to the accessibility rules. All new houses have to be built so that they are usable by the chronically disabled, despite that fact that 98% [1] of the people buying them will not be (so disabled).

tim

[1] 2% is probably a low estimate of the number of people who need these modifications but ISTM that a large percentage of the chronically disabled will also need the services of a warden, so normal houses will be CFU for them, even if they are made accessible.

True, the same rules govern the height of sockets and switches. Sockets in new builds have to be 450mm from the floor and light switches 1.2m. They look totally tulip.

[TheFaQQer]

Well I either want to go really old or really new.

Not decided which way yet either.

Design your own.

My family designed our house together - in a pub on the back of a napkin. Then keep an eye on the builder - ours built it 90 degrees round the wrong way!!! So the views of the countryside from the lounge didn't appear - the room with the best views was the spare bedroom upstairs!

My dad did their last house as a conversion - knocked down the outbuildings himself and reused the bricks to build the extension. Re-did everything else himself apart from the extension build. The oldest part of the house was built in 1760, and still going strong...

[tim123]

Anyone who has worked and/or travelled in Germany or Siwtzerland will know how utterly tulipe building standards are here.

I've just moved into a new build in Sweden.

My heating is turned on at just above the 'frost' level and is rarely 'on'. It is minus 4 outside and 21 inside. God know's where this heat is coming from.

The floor is crap though - cheap laminate, and the skirting has been screwed on with visible screws, not fully countersunk and left with 'floppy' ends.

OTOH H&S is non-existent. We were allowed to move in before it was finished and had to clamber over unfinished flooring that we could have tripped over (and theoretically fallen off a 4th floor walkway) and squash past large, sharp, 'building' objects to get to the exit - lucky there wasn't a fire. None of the guys wear hard hats, I watched another building site where they swung large partition walls around on a crane, if the guy on the controls slipped and hit one of the workers he would have regretted forgetting his yellow hat.

tim

[threaded]

Anyways, the house I currently live in was built in 1600. It needs constant maintenance, for example the thatcher comes on Friday to do some more, if he turns up.

Houses are like that.

[sasguru]

Anyone who has worked and/or travelled in Germany or Siwtzerland will know how utterly tulipe building standards are here.

[tim123]

Had a look round at some local new builds. Seeing what I can get get when the market goes tits up next year.

Is it me or have all current houses been designed by muppets.

So far I can tell current trends are:

* Sticking lounge & dining room on ground floor and lounge on second...wtf? Handy for a brew when you are watching corrie.

* Putting bedrooms (sorry Study) on the ground floor, but still calling it a bedroom.

* Putting WCs on each floor, making the 3 "shower" rooms useless as opposed to just making a decent sized bathroom in the first place.

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Much of this is all down to the accessibility rules. All new houses have to be built so that they are usable by the chronically disabled, despite that fact that 98% [1] of the people buying them will not be (so disabled).

tim

[1] 2% is probably a low estimate of the number of people who need these modifications but ISTM that a large percentage of the chronically disabled will also need the services of a warden, so normal houses will be CFU for them, even if they are made accessible.

[rootsnall]

'King 'Eck, and I thought my 1930s semi was jerry built...

A 30s semi I lived in was solid downstairs but noticeably wonky upstairs. My grandad ( a builder in the 30s ) explained that the old hands built downstairs and then moved on to the next house and left the rest to the apprentices.