It's a huge commitment so best to be sure - no point settling for something that's totally wrong and then sitting in your house regretting it. But don't go along expecting it to be bad or you may not be able to see the good. Try to keep an open mind. If you will only buy a perfect house you will stay in your apartment. Compromise is inevitable if funds are limited, but you can chose which compromises to make. Some shade is not a deal breaker - a feeling of being permanently overlooked may be.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Don't think your a nightmare @Laurapearce2009 You have to get these things right, it's not just about you now it's also when you come to sell it!. When we went to view our new build the sales team originally said they couldn't tell us the size of the garden... So I told them I would look for a house somewhere else. Funny how that evening she rang me to let me know the size of the garden!! It's all about a sale to them, so they may seem nice and lovely but read between the lines! lol Do you need to buy a new build? for the help to buy scheme? ( if they still run it?) don't want to pry but if you can avoid a new build I would. Go for an older development the gardens are usually bigger and not so overlooked. Also I always see it as you never stand and look at your house. Mines a 70s build, was originally 2 plots but they never built the second house so our plot is massive! lol I sacrificed the exterior prettyness (it's part covered in a climbing hydrangea I think!) for large house which worked for us and huge garden for my 2 little girls.
I wouldn’t go for a new build either, how many people post on here with the most dreadful lawn problems because the builder has buried all the spare bricks, breeze blocks, rubble and rubbish and lumps of clay and sub soil, then laid turf. Also, when a property has been build for a while it will show any faults, which wouldn’t materialise in a new build for a couple of years.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
You are certainly not a nightmare, buying a house is a huge financial commitment and there is nothing nicer than have a bright sunny back garden to sit and relax in. I wish i had been more careful when we purchased our new new build many years ago, front garden basked in sunshine and light, who want to have friends round on summer evenings sitting in the shady back garden?
I wouldn’t go for a new build either, how many people post on here with the most dreadful lawn problems because the builder has buried all the spare bricks, breeze blocks, rubble and rubbish and lumps of clay and sub soil, then laid turf. Also, when a property has been build for a while it will show any faults, which wouldn’t materialise in a new build for a couple of years.
Mm, but you get a warranty with a new build but in an older house you're on your own once contracts have been exchanged. And new houses are much better insulated and draught proofed than old ones
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Guys you have been so kind and helpful so wanted to pick your brains again and also update you so firstly I turned up for my apt at persimmon this morning and there was nobody there! When I called another persimmon showhome I was told she had to go to another site! not even a call to re arrange or apologise Such bad service so I won’t even look there now
I am looking at another development now. The plot we are looking at is 109 which is a west facing garden I have googled it and lots of people say this is a lovely garden what do you guys think from the photo I have put a x in the garden to show you any help would be amazing thanks x
As you say, bad performance Laura. New plot looks okay to me and means you'll get sunshine late afternoon/early evening when you're likely to get home.
Probably not. The sun at lunchtime would be due south but you should get some from the centre to the back of the garden, as it doesn't look like you will have houses near enough to block it.
I would say it's a much better aspect for the house - east/west means that all the rooms in the house get the sun at some time in the day all year. Around midday the sun will be in your garden but not on the back of your house. It'll depend on how tall your garage is as to whether there's sun close to the house but at the end of the garden there should be, as long as number 108 don't plant a leylandii hedge. As Lizzie says, the sun will be best in the afternoon and evening there, which is usually the best time if you're wanting to have dinner outside
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
When we went to view our new build the sales team originally said they couldn't tell us the size of the garden... So I told them I would look for a house somewhere else. Funny how that evening she rang me to let me know the size of the garden!! It's all about a sale to them, so they may seem nice and lovely but read between the lines! lol
Do you need to buy a new build? for the help to buy scheme? ( if they still run it?) don't want to pry but if you can avoid a new build I would. Go for an older development the gardens are usually bigger and not so overlooked. Also I always see it as you never stand and look at your house.
Mines a 70s build, was originally 2 plots but they never built the second house so our plot is massive! lol I sacrificed the exterior prettyness (it's part covered in a climbing hydrangea I think!) for large house which worked for us and huge garden for my 2 little girls.
Also, when a property has been build for a while it will show any faults, which wouldn’t materialise in a new build for a couple of years.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
so firstly I turned up for my apt at persimmon this morning and there was nobody there! When I called another persimmon showhome I was told she had to go to another site!
not even a call to re arrange or apologise
Such bad service so I won’t even look there now
I am looking at another development now.
The plot we are looking at is 109 which is a west facing garden
I have googled it and lots of people say this is a lovely garden
what do you guys think from the photo
I have put a x in the garden to show you
any help would be amazing thanks x
Around midday the sun will be in your garden but not on the back of your house. It'll depend on how tall your garage is as to whether there's sun close to the house but at the end of the garden there should be, as long as number 108 don't plant a leylandii hedge.
As Lizzie says, the sun will be best in the afternoon and evening there, which is usually the best time if you're wanting to have dinner outside
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”