Barratt Homes Reviews
Newest Review: ... roof. We moved in and everything was great ...... for a few days! I woke up one morning to the dog going nuts!! workmen from Barratts had just let themselves into our garden and were digging it up to get to the sewer which runs under our house I know the may need to do this but we should have been advised. Next came the shock of our first water bill ... £10000! almost in tears we rang the water company who couldnt beleive it either, we checked the meter outside the house which was spinning in a blur, between them united utilities and Barratts couldnt decide where the fault lay, and took 10 days to decide all the time 4 gallon a minute was ... more
Customer Barratt Homes Reviews (53)
by Ryan Thomas - written on 04/05/13
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Barratt quoted a service charge ESTIMATE of £1200 to £1300 in their sales brochure when they knew they would ACTUALLY be charging £2300.79!!I took them to the Consumer Code for Homebuilders and got compensation.Go to the following page for the full adjudication www.honeybadgerblog.co.uk
by David Grant - written on 11/02/13
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Hi All, thought I would add our experiences of Barratts, we Bought our new build home in 2010, it was great fun watching it go up from week to week .. couldnt wait to move in. We moved in with the help of a part exchange, watch the usual con trick here. they reduced the price of ours by stating the roof needed some work and they needed an insurance policy as our property was part of the parish, and they can (back in 1901 charge a levy according to the deeds) we dutifully paid as we just wanted to move and the extras we got from barratts seemd to cancel this out. Although on speaking to the people who bought our old house ... Read the complete review
by paul conner - written on 30/10/12
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Houses not worth the money at Gamekeepers Wynd in South Lanarkshire. "Snagging" list getting bigger/not smaller.They seem to "attack" problems in "fits and starts".Would be less problems if they employed decent tradesmen.Barratts onto Phase 3 in development.Workers now park anywhere and everywhere in estate.They arrive in cars before 7 in the morning with radios blaring.They are allowed to block roads with their cars without consideration for residents---sorry mugs!--- who bought houses: in effect paying for workers wages!! Roll on July 2013 when all work due to be completed.Probably deadline will be extended as "cowboys" wont reach targets.I've been waiting a year for repair work to be done.Take my advice---do not buy a house/flat here!!
by Ripped off - written on 27/09/12
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We bought a 2 bedroom flat in 2008. The first shower I had flooded the floor as the shower had not been plumbed in. 2 months later, a river of rain water began pouring in above a window causing part of the ceiling to collapse. Other issues included badly painted walls, squint bath taps & tiling, missing grout, a phone socket not working, gaps in woodwork frames, debris under the carpets. They tell you they will repair anything for the first 2 years, well it took 2 years before they eventually did the majority of the work, telling us they would do it as a 'gesture of goodwill'! Er, no. It's actually in your contract. 4 years later, the shower cubicle has almost fallen Read the complete review
by MG - written on 22/07/12
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Moved in 5 years ago to the Kings Park development in Hull. Where to start, initialaly we were told we would be eligable for a first time buyer scheme which they had a giant billboard outside the sales office (they would pay 5% of the deposit), however when we turned up to sign the contract we were told they don't do it anymore (we are talking about a week later) as you can imagine finding out we needed an extra £8000 wasn't a great start. My wife had her heart set on the place so we went for it anyway and just chalked it up to bad luck. The luck continued as the date for completion moved by 6 months and then again less than a week before ... Read the complete review
