We bought our dream home from Bovis Homes, only for it to turn into a nightmare!
Here is a comprehensive list of all the defects and issues we have encountered in our Bovis Home. My aim is to detail each one in a blog post and where possible describe the experience, the issues we faced and outcomes. Each item will eventually link to a separate blog on each topic, creating a […]
As many of you are aware, I’ve been embroiled in a years-long battle with Bovis Homes over the numerous serious defects in our property. Instead of fulfilling their promise to fix these issues—a promise they’ve repeated over the past 5.5 years—Bovis have now made it clear that they will only buy back the house. After […]
One thing that can be hard to grasp if you’ve never lived on a new-build estate is the sheer amount of ongoing work. You quickly get used to the constant presence of JCBs, workmen everywhere, and construction dust invading every corner of your home. Even if your house is finished, the surrounding site work can […]
Where to start with this defect in our “preimum” home… There has always been movement and noise from the flooring upstairs. The landing is bouncy, if you’re underneath in some rooms there’s loud cracking sounds whenever anyone walks across the floors upstairs, the staircase wobbles and the stairs themselves creak when you just walk past […]
One of the very many defects in our Bovis home is alarming cracks in all four corners of the house. Bovis “fixed” these cracks, but as they kept reappearing despite these fixes, Bovis had a structural engineer inspect the roof. The structural engineer’s report is, of course, hard to read, but here are some excerpts […]