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New builds always look and feel like theyre made for those couples where the woman has a white range rover, orange spray tan, duck lips and the fella has an ice gem haircut and a sleeve tattoo
@@curcave Because they have good build quality and interesting design features. A 3 year old could draw most of these new builds and I for one wouldn't live in such a stale, depressing place.
My dad works in the building industry and his job is to literally fix mistakes on brand new houses and make them comfortable to live in. The shit that people get away with when they're building is awful cause its gonna cost more money to maintain the house instead of just doing it right the first time and not taking short cuts.
It costs more money _to the owner_ but to the company designing and building these house that literally doesn't matter. What matters is that they charge like it's a fine house while spending a fraction of that. If owners have problems with the house like 2 weeks after moving in, that's not their issue, they already sold the house and pocketed the money.
I went to a unit complex with 200 townhouses, joined in groups of 3 or 4, where every single firewall only went up to the top of the wall, not through the celing. So they had to rip up the roof above every fire wall and fix it. The houses were completely shit
@@sumisu_senpai_6280 Probably has better drainage too. They often skip the bit where they improve the physical infrastructure around the developments to save money.
Problem is developers give tradesmen “price” work for these new build. So quality is out of the window straight away. And site managers just want bonuses so they do it quick as possible
Honestly so many of those white refinished houses would look so much better with just a bit of greenery, like some vines or even just some plants on the windowsills.
But instead around here mainly the asian fellas have a thing for white render and columns, and enough space on what was a front garden for a large Mercedes van. But still park two cars in the street.
@@kittikidd2334theyve fully destroyed and concreted over a poppy field and part of a forest near me for some shit newbuild estate, then also destroyed a horse field that used to have a secondary school on it, and are now trying to pave over the one last field people have to walk their dogs but theres been protests lol
That’s so sad :( I’m glad people are protesting, where I live we have lost 7 fields to new builds in the last 5 years, I have protested also but greedy businesses have all the power
Only those people who have never had, and will never have children have any right whatsoever to whinge about new house building. Hypocrites would do well to remember that every house was a once a newbuild on what had formerly been fields or woodland.
I live in a very hilly area in the UK, and on my usual dog walk I can see over most of the valley I live in. And when I tell you that the new builds stick out like a sore thumb even from miles away! It's just beautiful fields and rolling hills and old houses woven and nestled together that have aged like fine wine and then there's just this BEIGE copy pasted stain in the middle of the landscape. Just an unnaturally straight line of identical houses just kinda slapped onto the closest convenient road. Literally identical. Identical floor plans, identical gardens, identical materials, identical driveways, LEGIT just eighteen clones of the exact same house. I hate them. And this is a hill I'm willing to die on.
I live close to the beach. Not in UK but just across the pond. It used to be nice walking in the sand dunes, you couldnt see any buildings. Then the greedy municipality I live in decided to sell some land right next to the protected nature reserve that is the dune strip to a developer that built butt ugly 5 story tall buildings on it. View absolutely ruined. They shouldnt have even been allowed to build anything new that close to a protected nature reserve that has very nitrogen poor soil and will be severely affected by the air and groundwater pollution that will result from the people living in those buildings. Shameful display.
My town is currently having a bunch of newbuilds built on a hill that overlooks its south, and they also don't fit in whatsoever. I hardly have a problem with the placement of those houses, but to have big, soulless chunks of plastic ois incredibly sad. :(
I (very) briefly worked for a house builder and there was a woman who sent in a complaint every time it rained because her garden was wet afterwards. not that it wasn't draining or anything. that her garden was generally wet.
I'm not convinced smaller windows save much emergy. Residents must need their lights on more often and the houses won't naturally warm up on sunny winter days.
@@laserduck4238it's literally a part of the history curriculum at secondary school so you definitely should've been taught that. Did your education get interrupted by the pandemic or something?
I grew up in the uk, spent 30 years in the states and then moved back to the village I grew up in. Hundreds of completely soulless houses had been built in the village. Nothing new was even remotely aesthetically pleasing. It honestly reminded me of the cheap social housing they built and knocked down in minneapolis.
I hate that so many people who do up houses have the assumption that replacing gardens with concrete is automatically better. The same with removing any sense of history or life and replacing it with a sterile and cheap look.
Yep, I live in a new build , built 9 years ago now, and there are cracks around every window, the roof leaks every time we get heavy rain. The toilets/bathrooms are shoddily done. The builders even left the plastic material that’s on new doors when it was installed , noticed it after living here a couple of months. Completely rushed to get them built and now me and my neighbours are constantly having to get people out to fix these issues!
If it makes you feel any better, cracks around windows and dodgy roof work has always been an issue in British housing - even those that are over 100 years old. Usually, those issues were just fixed a couple of decades after they were built so we think they never had those problems…. But oh they did 😂
Sue them for hidden damage, as a private home owner you have rights to protect you against scamming construction companies. I dont think the brexit people will have had enough time to get rid of all that legislation yet, but im sure theyre trying.
My favourite thing is when a village uses rocks from a local quarry to build all their houses. For example a village near Flamborough are made from chalk it’s awesome and just adds a unique touch.
And it’s more sustainable, and helps with local jobs, too! (and more durable than the wood framing with fake stone/brick) Using local materials is always better!
it blows my mind how here in England we have beautiful Tudor houses which still survive with the original wood from 1600s while modern day housing could probably last 20-30 years max. Like you can litterally see the quality of these really old buildings, even ones built from the 1800s which still survive in central London. idk they just look so sturdy, like they could stand there for eternity. These modern houses in Britain are absolutely atrocious!. Not only do they look like they would blow away with a gust of wind, but they are overall uncomfortable to live in compared to the older, more cosy houses
house near me was sold and then the new owners cut down a monkey puzzle tree in the front garden that was older than me and then they put the house up for sale again. then when the new people moved in they ripped up the garden, covered the ground in gravel, put up a massive fence and now have like 8 cars crammed in to what was meant to be a front garden. absolute insanity.
i’m moving house at the moment and we went to look at quite a few newbuilds, saddest houses i have ever been in. theyve all got barely any garden, theyre already falling apart and theyre so overlooked cus they crowd them in so much
@squiggle.64 yes and kitchen's are twice the size of the living room where you are lucky to fit anything more than a 3 seater couch and your tv..you are stuffed if you get visitors or relatives showing up.
"This is probably a lecture your dad'll give you" Well as somebody who doesn't have a dad, I'm honoured to have someone my own age step into the role and give me advice I otherwise would not have 😂 Thank you papa George.
6:52 don’t wanna sound like a nerd but The English Civil war was basically the king vs the parliament, King Charles wanted parliament shut down so he had all the power, they declared war on him, parliament won and King Charles was executed. It’s basically like if everyone who is mentally okay declared war on the Torys
To answer your question: The War of the Roses and the English Civil War are NOT the same thing The English Civil War happened in 1642 between the royalists led by King Charles the 1st and the parliamentarians led by Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell ended up winning the war and King Charles was executed by beheading for "treason". England would go on to be a republic for a decade before King Charles the 2nd returned and restored the monarchy following Cromwell's death
I think you summed it all up well when you said 'it's completely lifeless'. Grey interiors, grey exteriors, concrete and gravel over beautiful garden space in which you could grow your own vegetables, plant flowers, do your part for nature etc etc. I believe Frankfurt made it illegal to pave over your garden and I think it is an excellent idea. Let's bring some colour and personality back to this bleak island, please
Remember when houses and buildings used to be so gorgeously crafted. That you could tell the designer really put their whole soul into it…now it’s just plain and dull
I think the issue is that we treat housing like a luxury commodity that needs to be profitable and not something that literally EVERYONE needs lol. "Make it cheep, sell it expensive, get your money and not care about the people you're fucking over" Capitalist innovation ladies and gents. Developers and landlords bare a large amount of blame for the cost of living crisis
The first one was a guy in Birmingham who paved his entire front garden to provide parking for hopsital staff who worked opposite him... He still charged them a fiver a day though so he's still a bit scummy
my dad is a builder and its crazy how all newbuilds look so identical now days bcos multiple ones u showed look EXACTLY like sites my dad has worked on literally copy and paste housing lol
To be fair to them, I reckon people said the same about terraced housing from 1920-1960 and now we kind of like them 😂 The main issue however is that they are just built so rushed that you really have to question how long they will last.
Jokes aside, I'm really happy to see George passionate about this topic and sharing it with the younger (late teens- early 20s) audience. Because we're the ones that these development companies are fucking over with all this. Building shit boxes we cant afdord that have no business being that expencive. I hope more people open their eyes to the pure evil that is corporate greed and jow its corrupting everything about our lives. I'm also v passionate about this topic haha
@@NTL578 I don't think the aesthetic is relevent beyond being a nice place to live*, I just want safe and accessible homes, fit for purpose for all kinds of people. I'm an idealist, I know. *there's been studies about how a buildings' appearance can impact community and crime and how beautification encourages people to take care of spaces thus increasing it's use period and decreasing empty houses in need of refurbishment. I reccommend checking out videos about them, it's really fascinating! Oh, I love classical and paladian inspired buildings though, don't get me wrong, it just isn't always necessary :p
When I was a college student, there were new houses being built near my college. I can’t describe what the houses looked like at the end, but as the building process went on, they got uglier and uglier, to the point where I felt sick every time I passed by them on the way home
I lived in a new build (social, I'm no minted) and here are some of the issues we had: The insulation hadn't been installed properly, so when it got cold (and it was in N Scotland so that's a lot) the upstairs would be freezing. People were finding their kids turning blue in the winter. They fitted all the pipework and then concreted over it so even the fancy expensive boiler couldn't heat upstairs. Forgot to open the valves on every radiator. Didn't fit shower properly so the first time EVERY house on the street used the shower it flooded downstairs - housing association didn't bother to warn other tenants. Cladded in wood (untreated) on a property facing the sea, causing every house to look like shit within a year. Described the "state-of-art" air flow system on initial tour - when I later took the vent off to wallpaper it was just a hole literally punched into the wall - no insulation, all rough edges, with a crappy plastic vent on top. I hate new builds with every fibre of my being.
You have summed up all the despair and disgust I've felt for years about new housing developments - and made me laugh too. I'll be letting my partner see this to show her that, yes, there are other people out there that echo my opinions exactly! (She's suffered my rants about this for some time!)
Just wanted to say that the bright white paint on these new builds is actually probably to help combat heat in the summer. Light colours help reflect the sun, where as darker colours absorb the sunlight so the brighter it is the longer the house stays cool. Its a common thing in many hot countries. Of course certain construction materials and airflow also help keep a place cool in summer, not just the colour
Yeah, i'm in Southern Italy and ALL the houses/buildings are white or off-white with some that choose jazzy colors like Yellow or Pink. It DOES help with the heat (can't imagine Nottingham hitting 44c tbh though). The big houses done in the White and Grey is fine to me but for the love of God put some greenery there to break it up.
counterpoint: you can make a house white without making it ugly. Back in the Georgian era, they built a lot of white houses and a fair few of them actually look quite nice!
I didn’t like new builds until my mum & dad got one & it’s beautiful. I get there some new builds that look horrific. I love how passionate George gets 😂
Our homes have a big influence on who we are. If you build places for people, you get communities. If you build places for things, then you can't be shocked when things turn up.
Yeah! I read loads of comments above about whether this was/wasn’t on the history syllabus. It wasn’t on mine but I’ve got a pretty serviceable knowledge just from reading and being interested.
there's a new build site being built in the fields next to my house, and it's so sad to see those hostile-looking fake brick houses instead of trees and cows. plus half of the houses are being built on flood plains, i feel bad for the future residents
My sister lives in a new build and she literally can't put anything on the walls because the wall will crumble away lmao the stair hand rail and the coat rack have fallen off so far, the hole they designed for the washing machine to go, they hung a radiator directly in front of it so they had to take the radiator off to fit their washing machine and the door wouldn't open with the radiator on the wall anyway 🙃 they had a massive field to build this stuff, but they've built all the back gardens with a slope going towards the house and being a high risk flood area the water has almost been getting in the house since they were built 2 years ago 😅 literally exactly like the ones from 10:16 but the water is directed to everyones individual houses lol. Oh, and the kids climbing frames they made out the front of the houses, they decided the best floor for kids to fall from height on would be chalky spikey gravel🙃 A fish would have made better choices honestly
Greyworld! This is my partners favourite game; driving around and spotting the latest Greyworld addition in our community. Always inflated like a house on steroids; no colour no garden or plants just a charmless block of grey surrounded by a car park.
3:31 Good old Cardiff, recognised it instantly, literally less than 15 yeras old and already gone to pot, I'm glad I don't live there anymore so don't have to see those disgusting buildings when I go watch the bluebirds lol
As much as i hate the majority of those houses i can't really knock the people who got ride of the gardens. After years of owning a house with a garden I'm sick of having to sort it out, it was bearable when it was for the kids but it never gets used now and is just yet another chore ontop of everything else . Give me extra parking space any day of the week.
10:08 the developer think he was in the early 1800s or something lmao, there isn't any window tax mate, unless thats a concequence of energy efficient regulation in which case that's hilarious, when you fuck up the design by adding too many windows that you brick it up rather than just getting tripple glaze
I love my new build, considering some of the crap places you get for affordable housing I got so lucky. I think for council houses the new bills can be pretty crap sometimes probably depends on area
My uk house pet peeve is the grey living rooms. Grey couches, greyish white floors, grey wallpapers, grey and silver tables, silver lamps, grey accent cushions (yes I'm looking at my families living room right now.)
Some of these houses are so bad I just want to spend 6 years getting a degree in architecture for the sole purpose of proving these developers wrong. 😂😢
this is just like the minimalist trend here in the states, i fucking lose my mind with rage when i see a gorgeous victorian era house turned into a black-and-white nightmare
100% agree with the estate agent statement my dad brought a house 3 weeks ago and the previous owners botched the boil so it didn’t leak and when it did it took a fair bit of the ceiling and when it was getting replaced it had never had a service with the crazy amount of time it had been there and my dad was told that the boiler system was fine and it had a service last year from the estate agent
The vast majority of New-Builds in the UK are shocking inside and out - measurements not matching up, thin walls and windows, damp setting in, the ability to hear your neighbours literally at talking-level noise. Plug sockets not straight, cracked bricks, built-up gardens that are shared with others etc. I purchased a new-build a couple of years ago, but it was a one-off property built on its own, and its not overlooked and stretches out onto a field behind it. I was involved with the development and speccing it so choosing the kitchen, tiles, flooring, lighting and electronics etc. I watched it going up and I have to say they did a fantastic job, house is rock solid, everything is picture perfect (I got very lucky) - but 95%+ are just thin nasty properties that aren't meant to last
I live in a new build house, one of the "nicer" ones as George puts it. While I get the issues people have, i think its more about putting heart into the building. We made sure to plant lots of wild flowers and climbers in the garden, and create a warm, family environment inside. I would love to live in a cottage somewhere but i cant afford that. Sometimes it's the only way to get on the property ladder until you can get your dream home.
I work in sales for a construction company, and trust me when I say people shop around when it comes to new housing estate projects. They don't care if steel is certified or if material is strong, they just want the cheapest price.
New builds always look and feel like theyre made for those couples where the woman has a white range rover, orange spray tan, duck lips and the fella has an ice gem haircut and a sleeve tattoo
It's the Deano/Stacey meme (google it)
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They look dystopian lmao. void of any character or individuality
I think the worst thing about all of these houses is that they concreted over everything green looking
Yeah actual braindead
agreed, nature just makes houses look better and more homely imo. also proven to improve mental health
Or replace it with fake too-green grass and fake shrubbery that looks like the housing equivalent of The Stepford Wives
Resin driveways, astro turf, concrete fence posts and gravel boards, lovely.
One of my neighbors down the road did that and as a child who wants to do architecture and interior I almost threw up when I saw it
so nice of george to show us all the houses he owns as a landlord
nah you got the user tag 😂😂😂
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The best way to describe new builds is 'soulless'. They just don't look like homes, they're houses but not homes.
Comments like this are reaaaaal dumb. How are these houses worse than generic rows upon rows of terrace housing?
@@curcave The Victorians, for the most part, knew how to build good quality housing en masse. We don't.
The "Pattern book" houses. The same designs all over this green and unpleasant land.
@@curcave Because they have good build quality and interesting design features. A 3 year old could draw most of these new builds and I for one wouldn't live in such a stale, depressing place.
EVERY house is a house until people move in and turn it into a home. Weird comment.
My dad works in the building industry and his job is to literally fix mistakes on brand new houses and make them comfortable to live in. The shit that people get away with when they're building is awful cause its gonna cost more money to maintain the house instead of just doing it right the first time and not taking short cuts.
Has he seen the guy on tiktok who does those? Shocking to see some of the things they think they can get away with
It costs more money _to the owner_ but to the company designing and building these house that literally doesn't matter. What matters is that they charge like it's a fine house while spending a fraction of that. If owners have problems with the house like 2 weeks after moving in, that's not their issue, they already sold the house and pocketed the money.
lol theres always people coming into my house fixing shit bc non of it was built right
I went to a unit complex with 200 townhouses, joined in groups of 3 or 4, where every single firewall only went up to the top of the wall, not through the celing. So they had to rip up the roof above every fire wall and fix it. The houses were completely shit
Yeah terrible build quality with a similar attitude to hollywood… make it quick and cheap then fix it in post-production.
newbuilds just look like someone’s first minecraft attempt
Nah, my dirt block house is built to last
@@sumisu_senpai_6280 Probably has better drainage too. They often skip the bit where they improve the physical infrastructure around the developments to save money.
As an architecture student, this is the tip of a very large iceberg of shite houses
Problem is developers give tradesmen “price” work for these new build. So quality is out of the window straight away. And site managers just want bonuses so they do it quick as possible
Learn a trade first then get into architecture you won’t have a clue sorry
@@hbpw857 builder by trade pal, sorry
As an Engineer I feel its my duty to say F you, just because you're part of the architecture gang
No such thing as architects now, all buildings look like a child's drawing come to life.
Honestly so many of those white refinished houses would look so much better with just a bit of greenery, like some vines or even just some plants on the windowsills.
Literally any sign of life
@@chuis2101 yeah just a little touch of life to make it seem less sterile
Are we not gonna talk about how half of the new houses are painted BLACK and WHITE? truly disgusting
@@leechick No sign of life and sterile just like whoever buys it
But instead around here mainly the asian fellas have a thing for white render and columns, and enough space on what was a front garden for a large Mercedes van. But still park two cars in the street.
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These houses will genuinely be getting knocked down in around 50 years I reckon
I think so too. The fact we’re paving over farming fields for these shtt buildings is insane
Less than that. Materials and building quality are mostly shit. They'll be liveable for like 10 years, and from that point on is downhill.
@@kittikidd2334theyve fully destroyed and concreted over a poppy field and part of a forest near me for some shit newbuild estate, then also destroyed a horse field that used to have a secondary school on it, and are now trying to pave over the one last field people have to walk their dogs but theres been protests lol
That’s so sad :( I’m glad people are protesting, where I live we have lost 7 fields to new builds in the last 5 years, I have protested also but greedy businesses have all the power
Only those people who have never had, and will never have children have any right whatsoever to whinge about new house building.
Hypocrites would do well to remember that every house was a once a newbuild on what had formerly been fields or woodland.
The fact that all these new houses are ruining the countryside and villages is sad.
It’s even sadder that there are thousands of people who are homeless in a supposedly developed country.
@@gwauk205 Yep this country is fucked.
I audibly gasped at 4:39. I know it was a joke "send them to the guillotine", but surely such beautiful buildings and houses should be protected?
Unfortunately it isn’t listed. Thing is - they basically made it unsellable in a decade.
Future ‘abandoned house’ yt content inbound.
I live in a very hilly area in the UK, and on my usual dog walk I can see over most of the valley I live in. And when I tell you that the new builds stick out like a sore thumb even from miles away! It's just beautiful fields and rolling hills and old houses woven and nestled together that have aged like fine wine and then there's just this BEIGE copy pasted stain in the middle of the landscape. Just an unnaturally straight line of identical houses just kinda slapped onto the closest convenient road. Literally identical. Identical floor plans, identical gardens, identical materials, identical driveways, LEGIT just eighteen clones of the exact same house. I hate them. And this is a hill I'm willing to die on.
I live close to the beach. Not in UK but just across the pond. It used to be nice walking in the sand dunes, you couldnt see any buildings. Then the greedy municipality I live in decided to sell some land right next to the protected nature reserve that is the dune strip to a developer that built butt ugly 5 story tall buildings on it. View absolutely ruined. They shouldnt have even been allowed to build anything new that close to a protected nature reserve that has very nitrogen poor soil and will be severely affected by the air and groundwater pollution that will result from the people living in those buildings. Shameful display.
My town is currently having a bunch of newbuilds built on a hill that overlooks its south, and they also don't fit in whatsoever. I hardly have a problem with the placement of those houses, but to have big, soulless chunks of plastic ois incredibly sad. :(
I (very) briefly worked for a house builder and there was a woman who sent in a complaint every time it rained because her garden was wet afterwards. not that it wasn't draining or anything. that her garden was generally wet.
Not bring back the good old days but bring back good architecture
Yesss, exactly!
We don't want the "good" old days back, we want the good visual aesthetics from those old days back.
old school coucil houses are bangers
we should demolish all these houses if this video gets 137.5 likes
@@AllGarageMusicyou cant, first you have to get 138 likes, and the someone has to give half a dislike
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How did Britain make worse looking houses than America?!
My house is made out of surplus materials like guns and banned books
Hm
I wouldn’t use this single video to base any conclusions
@@theomacer3094so true bestie
@@sirgo0se97this video is a good example
I'm not convinced smaller windows save much emergy. Residents must need their lights on more often and the houses won't naturally warm up on sunny winter days.
(4:20) Which is also stupid, because then you have to replace natural light with artificial light, which isn't energy efficent either.
The builders get their crappy energy-efficient ECP certificate then leave us with the massive utility bill
The most worrying thing here George is that you didn't know England had a Civil War.
I was never taught about the civil war at school for some reason. I first found out about it when I visited Knaresborough
@@laserduck4238 i never learned it either, this video is the reason i found out there was one. tbf i was out of school for multiple years
I’m from Ireland and I knew about the English civil war
@@laserduck4238it's literally a part of the history curriculum at secondary school so you definitely should've been taught that. Did your education get interrupted by the pandemic or something?
@@bruhngl Yup, it's in the English Curriculum and has been for at least 25 years.
the “modern style” house george didn’t mind looks like a community college 😭
😂😂😂 thats what i thought too
Literally looks exactly like a sixth form college they built in my city
I can imagine some people who actually live in houses like these losing their mind as george rips into their homes
I grew up in the uk, spent 30 years in the states and then moved back to the village I grew up in.
Hundreds of completely soulless houses had been built in the village. Nothing new was even remotely aesthetically pleasing. It honestly reminded me of the cheap social housing they built and knocked down in minneapolis.
Petition to go off grid, build a little cosy cottage and live off the land, decorating your house with plants and eating cosy meals say aye
Aye
You wouldn't get planning permission lmao
aye
@@kuromez5560 yeah there'd be no way but don't ruin the dream😂
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I hate that so many people who do up houses have the assumption that replacing gardens with concrete is automatically better. The same with removing any sense of history or life and replacing it with a sterile and cheap look.
Yep, I live in a new build , built 9 years ago now, and there are cracks around every window, the roof leaks every time we get heavy rain. The toilets/bathrooms are shoddily done. The builders even left the plastic material that’s on new doors when it was installed , noticed it after living here a couple of months. Completely rushed to get them built and now me and my neighbours are constantly having to get people out to fix these issues!
If it makes you feel any better, cracks around windows and dodgy roof work has always been an issue in British housing - even those that are over 100 years old. Usually, those issues were just fixed a couple of decades after they were built so we think they never had those problems…. But oh they did 😂
Sue them for hidden damage, as a private home owner you have rights to protect you against scamming construction companies. I dont think the brexit people will have had enough time to get rid of all that legislation yet, but im sure theyre trying.
My favourite thing is when a village uses rocks from a local quarry to build all their houses. For example a village near Flamborough are made from chalk it’s awesome and just adds a unique touch.
And it’s more sustainable, and helps with local jobs, too! (and more durable than the wood framing with fake stone/brick) Using local materials is always better!
this is quite predominant in rural areas im pretty sure
Yes, and if the houses are well designed (not 'cookie cutter') then all the better.
6:30 looks like a mcdonalds
it blows my mind how here in England we have beautiful Tudor houses which still survive with the original wood from 1600s while modern day housing could probably last 20-30 years max. Like you can litterally see the quality of these really old buildings, even ones built from the 1800s which still survive in central London. idk they just look so sturdy, like they could stand there for eternity. These modern houses in Britain are absolutely atrocious!. Not only do they look like they would blow away with a gust of wind, but they are overall uncomfortable to live in compared to the older, more cosy houses
house near me was sold and then the new owners cut down a monkey puzzle tree in the front garden that was older than me and then they put the house up for sale again. then when the new people moved in they ripped up the garden, covered the ground in gravel, put up a massive fence and now have like 8 cars crammed in to what was meant to be a front garden. absolute insanity.
Are they Asian? Also all people do now is consume consume consume
George's opinion on newbuilds is spot on, as a builder can agree they are expensive prices of shit for the most part
i’m moving house at the moment and we went to look at quite a few newbuilds, saddest houses i have ever been in. theyve all got barely any garden, theyre already falling apart and theyre so overlooked cus they crowd them in so much
@squiggle.64 yes and kitchen's are twice the size of the living room where you are lucky to fit anything more than a 3 seater couch and your tv..you are stuffed if you get visitors or relatives showing up.
"This is probably a lecture your dad'll give you"
Well as somebody who doesn't have a dad, I'm honoured to have someone my own age step into the role and give me advice I otherwise would not have 😂 Thank you papa George.
6:52 don’t wanna sound like a nerd but The English Civil war was basically the king vs the parliament, King Charles wanted parliament shut down so he had all the power, they declared war on him, parliament won and King Charles was executed. It’s basically like if everyone who is mentally okay declared war on the Torys
How are the puritans mentally ok ???
@@scarlett9576 cuz they’re not tories
To answer your question: The War of the Roses and the English Civil War are NOT the same thing
The English Civil War happened in 1642 between the royalists led by King Charles the 1st and the parliamentarians led by Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell ended up winning the war and King Charles was executed by beheading for "treason". England would go on to be a republic for a decade before King Charles the 2nd returned and restored the monarchy following Cromwell's death
I think you summed it all up well when you said 'it's completely lifeless'. Grey interiors, grey exteriors, concrete and gravel over beautiful garden space in which you could grow your own vegetables, plant flowers, do your part for nature etc etc. I believe Frankfurt made it illegal to pave over your garden and I think it is an excellent idea. Let's bring some colour and personality back to this bleak island, please
Remember when houses and buildings used to be so gorgeously crafted. That you could tell the designer really put their whole soul into it…now it’s just plain and dull
I think the issue is that we treat housing like a luxury commodity that needs to be profitable and not something that literally EVERYONE needs lol. "Make it cheep, sell it expensive, get your money and not care about the people you're fucking over" Capitalist innovation ladies and gents. Developers and landlords bare a large amount of blame for the cost of living crisis
"A nice big window would cost less than bricks" 😂😂😂😂😂😂 had me on the floor hahaha
The first one was a guy in Birmingham who paved his entire front garden to provide parking for hopsital staff who worked opposite him... He still charged them a fiver a day though so he's still a bit scummy
my dad is a builder and its crazy how all newbuilds look so identical now days bcos multiple ones u showed look EXACTLY like sites my dad has worked on literally copy and paste housing lol
To be fair to them, I reckon people said the same about terraced housing from 1920-1960 and now we kind of like them 😂
The main issue however is that they are just built so rushed that you really have to question how long they will last.
Jokes aside, I'm really happy to see George passionate about this topic and sharing it with the younger (late teens- early 20s) audience. Because we're the ones that these development companies are fucking over with all this. Building shit boxes we cant afdord that have no business being that expencive. I hope more people open their eyes to the pure evil that is corporate greed and jow its corrupting everything about our lives.
I'm also v passionate about this topic haha
Yeah mate you might wanna settle down abit before you I dunno cry?
@@healthyliam6803 I'm an architect, if I don't cry about this I'd be pretty shit at my prospective job yano
@@h0td0gwaterYes, but are you a modernist architect or do you actually want to design building in a classical style?
@@NTL578 I don't think the aesthetic is relevent beyond being a nice place to live*, I just want safe and accessible homes, fit for purpose for all kinds of people. I'm an idealist, I know.
*there's been studies about how a buildings' appearance can impact community and crime and how beautification encourages people to take care of spaces thus increasing it's use period and decreasing empty houses in need of refurbishment. I reccommend checking out videos about them, it's really fascinating!
Oh, I love classical and paladian inspired buildings though, don't get me wrong, it just isn't always necessary :p
@@healthyliam6803 also crying is healthy, mr. healthy liam! damn, a bitch can't cry these days w/o being chastised? kinell
6:35 That house looks like something I made on minecraft
When I was a college student, there were new houses being built near my college.
I can’t describe what the houses looked like at the end, but as the building process went on, they got uglier and uglier, to the point where I felt sick every time I passed by them on the way home
I lived in a new build (social, I'm no minted) and here are some of the issues we had:
The insulation hadn't been installed properly, so when it got cold (and it was in N Scotland so that's a lot) the upstairs would be freezing. People were finding their kids turning blue in the winter.
They fitted all the pipework and then concreted over it so even the fancy expensive boiler couldn't heat upstairs.
Forgot to open the valves on every radiator.
Didn't fit shower properly so the first time EVERY house on the street used the shower it flooded downstairs - housing association didn't bother to warn other tenants.
Cladded in wood (untreated) on a property facing the sea, causing every house to look like shit within a year.
Described the "state-of-art" air flow system on initial tour - when I later took the vent off to wallpaper it was just a hole literally punched into the wall - no insulation, all rough edges, with a crappy plastic vent on top.
I hate new builds with every fibre of my being.
As a British person, we know The windows in older buildings got filled with bricks as they used to get taxed on the
Whoosh, straight over their heads
But that doesn't explain why they're replicating that in new builds ?
To make them look " traditional" whatever that is..
Most developers think design is painting everything grey and white.
Current : it’s so boring they all just have the white with black accents
George’s ideal world: balamorie
Archie and his pink castle
You have summed up all the despair and disgust I've felt for years about new housing developments - and made me laugh too. I'll be letting my partner see this to show her that, yes, there are other people out there that echo my opinions exactly! (She's suffered my rants about this for some time!)
Just wanted to say that the bright white paint on these new builds is actually probably to help combat heat in the summer. Light colours help reflect the sun, where as darker colours absorb the sunlight so the brighter it is the longer the house stays cool. Its a common thing in many hot countries.
Of course certain construction materials and airflow also help keep a place cool in summer, not just the colour
Yeah, i'm in Southern Italy and ALL the houses/buildings are white or off-white with some that choose jazzy colors like Yellow or Pink. It DOES help with the heat (can't imagine Nottingham hitting 44c tbh though). The big houses done in the White and Grey is fine to me but for the love of God put some greenery there to break it up.
counterpoint: you can make a house white without making it ugly. Back in the Georgian era, they built a lot of white houses and a fair few of them actually look quite nice!
@@lunaangeleclipse9745Tudor houses are also generally white , with the structural beams painted black.
meanwhile new builds in Australia love the colour black, black roofs are everywhere in new suburban developments.
I think it's more likely that white paint is cheaper. Modern British housing is built to a price and not a specification.
I didn’t like new builds until my mum & dad got one & it’s beautiful. I get there some new builds that look horrific. I love how passionate George gets 😂
Many old houses were over-engineered and will stand for hundreds of years. Many new builds will be struggling in 50 years.
Our homes have a big influence on who we are. If you build places for people, you get communities. If you build places for things, then you can't be shocked when things turn up.
And this is why I'd never buy a house built after WWII.
it’s always a good day when george reviews things.
The reason is greed. Greed kills art and innovation and also windows.
they look like my sims 4 houses from when i was 10
idk about u but my sims houses were fire
They make EAs builds look impressive at this point
@@mkgeostar now mine are not when i was 10 tho ! 😮💨
"Didn't know we had a Civil War" Fucking hell George read a book
Yeah! I read loads of comments above about whether this was/wasn’t on the history syllabus. It wasn’t on mine but I’ve got a pretty serviceable knowledge just from reading and being interested.
Thanks George. A really entertaining and different story. Loved it!
there's a new build site being built in the fields next to my house, and it's so sad to see those hostile-looking fake brick houses instead of trees and cows. plus half of the houses are being built on flood plains, i feel bad for the future residents
New builds make me cry
My sister lives in a new build and she literally can't put anything on the walls because the wall will crumble away lmao the stair hand rail and the coat rack have fallen off so far, the hole they designed for the washing machine to go, they hung a radiator directly in front of it so they had to take the radiator off to fit their washing machine and the door wouldn't open with the radiator on the wall anyway 🙃 they had a massive field to build this stuff, but they've built all the back gardens with a slope going towards the house and being a high risk flood area the water has almost been getting in the house since they were built 2 years ago 😅 literally exactly like the ones from 10:16 but the water is directed to everyones individual houses lol.
Oh, and the kids climbing frames they made out the front of the houses, they decided the best floor for kids to fall from height on would be chalky spikey gravel🙃
A fish would have made better choices honestly
oh, and her taps have already been replaced once, as has the front door..
1:14 Average Notts house
Greyworld! This is my partners favourite game; driving around and spotting the latest Greyworld addition in our community. Always inflated like a house on steroids; no colour no garden or plants just a charmless block of grey surrounded by a car park.
i appreciate george teaching us things our dads will not 😂
😂😂😂😂😂
hes gonna have a seizure when he finds out someone turned their backyard into a parking lot
1:06 the main issue is the middle fence, not the lack of things in the gardens
New builds are responsible for the demise of hedgehogs.
Honestly i agree they have no character and just seem cheap. give me a old cottage in the countryside any day!
Easy to say but the old cottage in the countryside costs nearly a million now.
Watching this series always hoping your house doesn't show up 😬
The war of the Roses and the English civil war were different.
5:52 I though my this was my aunt’s house 💀
3:31 Good old Cardiff, recognised it instantly, literally less than 15 yeras old and already gone to pot, I'm glad I don't live there anymore so don't have to see those disgusting buildings when I go watch the bluebirds lol
1:00 this should be made into a level of the backrooms tbh
More George content, loving life
0:54 this way it's easier to clean the blood off it...
As much as i hate the majority of those houses i can't really knock the people who got ride of the gardens. After years of owning a house with a garden I'm sick of having to sort it out, it was bearable when it was for the kids but it never gets used now and is just yet another chore ontop of everything else . Give me extra parking space any day of the week.
10:08 the developer think he was in the early 1800s or something lmao, there isn't any window tax mate, unless thats a concequence of energy efficient regulation in which case that's hilarious, when you fuck up the design by adding too many windows that you brick it up rather than just getting tripple glaze
love how george bullies some british people for not knowing certain things but proceeds to only just find out there was a civil war
And they all probably cost more than we can afford 🤪
I love my new build, considering some of the crap places you get for affordable housing I got so lucky. I think for council houses the new bills can be pretty crap sometimes probably depends on area
The amount of times you said "I'm not one to say 'let's bring back the good old days'", I'm starting to believe you do
5:20 At least you said "Twitter", not "X" or DEMONETISED
when he returned needed we him most
My uk house pet peeve is the grey living rooms. Grey couches, greyish white floors, grey wallpapers, grey and silver tables, silver lamps, grey accent cushions (yes I'm looking at my families living room right now.)
Some of these houses are so bad I just want to spend 6 years getting a degree in architecture for the sole purpose of proving these developers wrong. 😂😢
House flippers - I want to live in a dentist office
The average home renovator’s attraction to white and grey needs to be studied
One of these houses is in the village I grew up in and when I visit my parents and go past it I die a little inside.
this is just like the minimalist trend here in the states, i fucking lose my mind with rage when i see a gorgeous victorian era house turned into a black-and-white nightmare
Same man 😢
10:38 lookin like my old minecraft houses
Type of houses you’d see in Dhar Mann
3:38 it looks fucking burnt
10:54 im 17 and i live in a modern house and it pisses me off everyday its white room torture i wish i was in my old house
100% agree with the estate agent statement my dad brought a house 3 weeks ago and the previous owners botched the boil so it didn’t leak and when it did it took a fair bit of the ceiling and when it was getting replaced it had never had a service with the crazy amount of time it had been there and my dad was told that the boiler system was fine and it had a service last year from the estate agent
All these houses look like what I used to build on The Sims 3 at the age of 12
4:03 window tax was prominent in the 1700’s that is why the windows are bricked up
Yeh in the Georgian times. I learnt from horrible histories
The vast majority of New-Builds in the UK are shocking inside and out - measurements not matching up, thin walls and windows, damp setting in, the ability to hear your neighbours literally at talking-level noise. Plug sockets not straight, cracked bricks, built-up gardens that are shared with others etc. I purchased a new-build a couple of years ago, but it was a one-off property built on its own, and its not overlooked and stretches out onto a field behind it. I was involved with the development and speccing it so choosing the kitchen, tiles, flooring, lighting and electronics etc. I watched it going up and I have to say they did a fantastic job, house is rock solid, everything is picture perfect (I got very lucky) - but 95%+ are just thin nasty properties that aren't meant to last
I live in a new build house, one of the "nicer" ones as George puts it. While I get the issues people have, i think its more about putting heart into the building. We made sure to plant lots of wild flowers and climbers in the garden, and create a warm, family environment inside. I would love to live in a cottage somewhere but i cant afford that. Sometimes it's the only way to get on the property ladder until you can get your dream home.
I work in sales for a construction company, and trust me when I say people shop around when it comes to new housing estate projects. They don't care if steel is certified or if material is strong, they just want the cheapest price.