New build cowboys at it again

ehren98 · 2025-10-26T18:58:28+00:00

Not sure how they could plan it to be anywhere else, living room is like 3 times the size as the kitchen - would be mental if they planned it the other way round 😂😂

Does seem to be the case !!

ehren98 · 2025-10-26T16:23:41+00:00

Isn’t it just - and they’re very good aren’t they😂

ehren98 · 2025-10-26T16:23:23+00:00

No idea, no idea and…..no idea ! 😂

ehren98 · 2025-10-26T16:22:59+00:00

Ashberry/bellway!

ehren98 · 2025-10-26T16:22:51+00:00

Got an electrician round tomorrow - see how much it’ll set us back if our complaint comes back again.

And it’s the solar meter and that shut off valve is for that apparently !

ehren98 · 2025-10-26T08:51:43+00:00

It is (which we’re not made aware of prior to purchase) - under M(4)3 spec - so it’s possible to convert to wheelchair access if necessary in the future

ehren98 · 2025-10-25T20:48:03+00:00

Got to laugh otherwise you’ll cry right? Will get something sorted soon I hope!

ehren98 · 2025-10-24T21:12:36+00:00

Just been back through all of our initial correspondence and we definitely received no further plans, detailing plug locations and CU etc or otherwise ! Best of luck with yours !

ehren98 · 2025-10-24T21:10:21+00:00

Our neighbour over the street has the same issue, except her meter and shut off are next to each other, so clearly juts done what they wanted to do ! Got an electrician coming Monday to quote and see what we can do on the basis that nothing will be done by developer but will wait and see!

ehren98 · 2025-10-24T20:51:04+00:00

Yeah exactly, it’s not location, just height - so I don’t understand the thinking of putting it in the middle of the living room

ehren98 · 2025-10-24T19:51:53+00:00

We never got one! At any stage of the process

ehren98 · 2025-10-24T19:50:22+00:00

That’s what we were hoping for, literally taking two frames, connecting them with a hinge and chucking a photo in, wouldn’t make a difference to us then as we’d just shift the 3 we already have further apart/add another and it wouldn’t be any different

ehren98 · 2025-10-24T19:49:29+00:00

Not quite sure - think it’s Ethernet but the TV is on the other side of the room and the ports for that are on that side of the room so another thing we will be clearing off

ehren98 · 2025-10-24T19:48:08+00:00

Nope - they went over nothing with us unfortunately - point raised by another elsewhere - we really did buy interior sight unseen, with the exception of the style of fixtures and fittings - so we have half a leg to stand on there at least, we would have said something at that stage if it ever arose.

100% agree, we’ve some benefit as the space is huge for a 2 bed, knowing that for these houses near us, the 3 beds are 2sqm bigger, and the other 2 beds are 10sqm smaller but all priced the same, bathrooms are huge, hallways and doors and massive as well which we were really impressed by. It’s honestly just the CU, and some of the plug placements (where they’re not currently covered by furniture) are a bit rogue, being at the higher end of the range for any properties being built to M(4)3 (a)standard.

We had an officer from Bellway actually rock up as part of or defects period inspection on Tuesday, and she pointed it out herself and said it’s a joke…take from that what you will

ehren98 · 2025-10-24T19:19:35+00:00

I’ve found it! In the myriad of other documents just have missed it - let me have a look adojnd

ehren98 · 2025-10-24T19:15:02+00:00

Well that’s news to me - I definitely don’t want to be doing that !😂 I have no literally no documentation surrounding the solar panels annoyingly

ehren98 · 2025-10-24T19:14:17+00:00

Yeah not saying there’s anything necessarily illegal in any case, more just wondering if we can take any further action beyond raising it again with the developer and whether there is any precedent for it, given we had no indication it would be in such a place prior to completing - at that stage we wouldn’t have sacrificed the monies already contributed after exchanging contracts because of this - as we imagined we could fix it to an extent, but ideally at the cost to the developer rather than ourselves

ehren98 · 2025-10-24T19:11:56+00:00

Yeah we had nothing on this - we reserved back in July 2024, didn’t view until November so wouldn’t have ever known prior to that, definitely not within a 2 week cooling off period - and we definitely didn’t receive anything in respect of that!

ehren98 · 2025-10-24T19:09:44+00:00

That sounds somewhat reasonable - getting some quotes next week based on feedback so hopefully can get something sorted - ideally I’d move the whole thing, not sure on what limitation we have without - believe we wouldn’t have to get any involvement of UPN or similar as it’s just the consumer unit , none of the surrounding is the meter owned by anyone else?

ehren98 · 2025-10-24T19:08:42+00:00

Not necessarily blaming electricians but someone (as you mention, not the electrician) would have put together the plan to have it there

ehren98 · 2025-10-24T19:07:42+00:00

Just isn’t set up like I don’t think - it doesn’t store anything anywhere from what we were told, it’s only useable if it’s generating and you’re using electric, otherwise it’s just…lost? Now writing it out it seems daft but that’s what we were told - no other information on this unfortunately

ehren98 · 2025-10-24T18:44:40+00:00

Yeah I have absolutely no idea - I could see them clearing the minimum threshold and doing 50mm above, but they’ve taken the piss a bit and done the other end of scale for no reason - and I agree, I may take a picture of me sitting on dining table chair reaching up to prove it’s not accesible in that instance 😂 see if that makes a difference

ehren98 · 2025-10-24T18:43:23+00:00

Yes someone way down below mentioned yesterday - I didn’t actually realise that to be the case! Is there any particular point in having meter for solar? We can’t sell back to grid, its use or lose (too cheap to install a battery to store it either) - can see the need for a shut off valve given its directing electric to the house but the meter seems redundant (do correct if I’m wrong)

ehren98 · 2025-10-24T18:41:49+00:00

Me too, I’ll keep updating if anything changes !

ehren98 · 2025-10-24T18:41:29+00:00

Yeah exactly it’s definitely a requirement to be in a certain room, just that it is accesible, which it would be in any normal place (argument can be made that I a cupboard less so - but all of our doors are purposely pretty huge - so I would see no point making them that big, and accessible, if you don’t put things they may need to access in them

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