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[Lester Burnham]

If your house is only a month old stewart milne should cover it. He covered the cost on flood damages to the flat I used to live in (the pipes were connected with bits of plastic instead of bits of brass) we flooded the 3 floors below our flat (including the show flat).

There's also the famous claim about the flatwarming that occured at the kepplestone flats where they had 20 or so people in the flat and the floor caved through down into the flat below (it's in the small print that you're only allowed a max of 12 people in your high quality stewart milne home).

I know someone who works in IT for stewart milne and only 5% of people that take the customer survey would recommend a stewart milne home to someone else and well over 60% were less than satisfied with their new homes.

You're far from alone.

[doobie]

Originally Posted by Lester Burnham

There's also the famous claim about the flatwarming that occured at the kepplestone flats where they had 20 or so people in the flat and the floor caved through down into the flat below (it's in the small print that you're only allowed a max of 12 people in your high quality stewart milne home).

I know someone who works in IT for stewart milne and only 5% of people that take the customer survey would recommend a stewart milne home to someone else and well over 60% were less than satisfied with their new homes.

You're far from alone.

i've heard about those flats as well from someone who was looking into getting one!! makes me glad i'm living in a 50's ex-council house, big rooms, big garden and totally solid - even the internal walls are brick!!

[jon]

Seconded. My flat is an old 60s council number in Leith, with brick walls, large rooms and proper floors. They're throwing up some godawful new block over the road, and I am 100% certain the owners there will not be able to say the same.

All modern houses/flats are shite until proven decent. And even then, probably still shite.

They built the "Coalhill Living Complex" (shite new flats) round the corner from me in about a week, and the exterior walls were rusting within ten days. Interestingly, all bar one of the flats are still for sale.

[Lester Burnham]

I honestly don't understand why anyone would buy them. Especially as they aren't really any cheaper. My dad is an engineer and he went past a Stewart Milne site and was in disbelief that they were up at 5 storeys+ with a timber frame. He's convinced that they'll have to be torn down in 20 years as they slowly turn into health and safety risks.

[lepeep]

Originally Posted by Lester Burnham

I honestly don't understand why anyone would buy them. Especially as they aren't really any cheaper. My dad is an engineer and he went past a Stewart Milne site and was in disbelief that they were up at 5 storeys+ with a timber frame. He's convinced that they'll have to be torn down in 20 years as they slowly turn into health and safety risks.

I forgot that philanthropy was at the top of his list when thinking about making homes.

I can always remember thinking that "the new houses" (in lossiemouth) were a sparkling, amazing place to live...25 years later, it looks like any other unkept shitehole.

[Thomas Banacek]

A mate works as a self employed joiner and has occasionally been contracted onto some of the new build properties going up across the North East.

He says the levels of cost cutting through using cheap materials etc. would fear you. It's little wonder so many horror stories occur.

I think I will look for an ex-council house, I live in one the now and it is the business.

[Swingin' Ryan]

Originally Posted by Lester Burnham

I honestly don't understand why anyone would buy them.

I agree, not only are there are a worrying amount of claims of poorly built houses and dangerous cost-cutting, the majority of the houses look like terrifying doll houses. The man seems determined to make the whole of Aberdeen look like some kind of GTA style computer game city. I find the whole area around Costco particularly eerie, it's far too clean and generic looking.

[calum]

Originally Posted by Swingin' Ryan

I find the whole area around Costco particularly eerie, it's far too clean and generic looking.

Try going to all the shiny new houses over on the other side of Westhill - I challenge anyone to get dropped in the middle of there and be able to tell which street or even which area they're in. Most of that's Stewart Milne's doing too

[Huw]

Originally Posted by calum

Try going to all the shiny new houses over on the other side of Westhill - I challenge anyone to get dropped in the middle of there and be able to tell which street or even which area they're in. Most of that's Stewart Milne's doing too

its the speed at which they go up. a whole neighbourhood of houses going up in a month? how is that comforting? and roundabouts EVERYWHERE!

[Lucky Rathen]

Originally Posted by Swingin' Ryan

I agree, not only are there are a worrying amount of claims of poorly built houses and dangerous cost-cutting, the majority of the houses look like terrifying doll houses. The man seems determined to make the whole of Aberdeen look like some kind of GTA style computer game city. I find the whole area around Costco particularly eerie, it's far too clean and generic looking.

Originally Posted by calum

Try going to all the shiny new houses over on the other side of Westhill - I challenge anyone to get dropped in the middle of there and be able to tell which street or even which area they're in. Most of that's Stewart Milne's doing too

Grandholm village terrifies me. It's like The Stepford Wives or something.