False thatch roof?

[asmethurst99]

I can remember council houses in the Broads with thatched rooves (must have been the seventies).

[Count Steer]

houses evolve in locations so that they actually work there.

Total sideways derail ...

Did you see the series of programmes on 'how to build a castle'?

First requirement is a plot close to quarry, a forest and a water supply.

Location, location, location

+ a fair bit of manpower.

Going back up there ^^ to poorly designed new houses. I should have taken a photo yesterday of a new build pair of semis and one detached house - with paddock. At first glance they look - I'll get a pic next week and we can play 'spot the flaws and cheap components' in them. (We enquired as to the price when they were going up...the semis are £1.2M. We didn't bother asking about the detached...and it has sold anyway).

Just remembered this. Here's one pic. Spot the failed DPC, the cheap as chips window units, ditto the paving and some of the tiling looks a bit shonky too. but my main was the drainage from the roof (thanks to those windows/roof thingies). It all poors down that little pitched roof into 1m gutters either side.

They've tried to make them the same style as the houses along that stretch of road*, and failed. Each half of this construction? £1.2M.



* which I'd like to live in but they don't come up for sale very often and there's only about 6.