In article ,
Mike Mitchell writes:
In any case, this is not the ONLY new property that has "featured" on
programmes like that one. I believe it was the BBC which reviewed new
builds last year, where there were major cracks in walls in one
property, weak crumbly mortar in another, and problems which I cannot
recall now in a third.

....plumbing installed so wrongly that the houses had hot water
continuously pouring out of their loft tank overflows.

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Andrew Gabriel