Some of The Nicer Things in Life, Things to Enjoy and Look Forward To

For a lovely dining experience, and at very reasonable prices, try Sophia's Cafe in Penzance. Voted on trip advisor as number 1 in the area, we've had many lovely meals their.

Having recently been looking at a Wedding Venue, we've particularly liked the following; Pentillie Weddings Cornwall, Ballyhannon Castle Ireland.

And we've been looking at our other favorite short list of wedding suppliers as well, for our big day, including the following . . .

For other suppliers, again continue from Wedding Venues, to Wedding Photography, Bridal Ware, and Wedding & Celebration Cakes. For Wedding Dresses; Maggie Sottero and Nicki Hill. For Wedding Photography; Jeff Ascough and Lovegrove Weddings. For Wedding Cakes; Cakes by Sarah Louise and Maisie Fantaisie.

We'll add more suppliers as we like them. Please add comments as to your own favorite wedding companies.

Couple’s new home nightmare

Read original article on couple's experience with Persimmon Homes and learn more about their views on quality and service from Persimmon Homes.

Couple's Persimmon Homes Nightmare

Another example of customer complaints regarding Persimmon Homes, the UK new homes builder. One presumes this was another NHBC controlled site, but would be interested to hear if this is the case or not, comments welcome please?

Also interested in home owners views on Persimmon and Charles Church new homes, exspecially if you are nervous of complaining, then we would like to hear your reasons why.

Office of Fair Trading (OFT), ASA, Trading Standards

All need to know about problems with your new home builder - tell them, and change can happen to make the industry better.

http://www.oft.gov.uk/shared_oft/reports/comp_policy/oft1020.pdf - page 92 start

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/jun/22/housingmarket.consumernews

http://www.scottish-building.co.uk/pages/profiles.asp?pi=1328&ref=more

When the showhome is just about the show . . .

Makes me laugh, even Charles Church internal company newletters highlight the 'perception' of quality that they put into their show homes, marketing and sales presentation.

But Charles Church (part of Persimmon Group plc, which also trades as Persimmon Homes in the UK) also uses Show Homes (executive homes, NHBC Site Manager Award) effectively to present one impression of the quality of a new build, which we found very different to the 'quality' of the finished home they actually sold.

Explain difference between a 1980's and year 2000's Charles Church New Home

I have no problem with the quality and customer service related to Charles Church Homes built in the 1980's under the prior control and ownership of Charles and Sussana Church, the company they founded in 1965- and the same goes for any current or prior owner I have spoken to or read about with an older Charles Church Property.

It's the Charles Church homes built under Persimmon or Beazer Homes that I find the problems and bad press relates to. For owners of these newer (10 years) Charles Church homes, the news has not been so good.

But then the news on Persimmon Homes and Westbury Parnerships New Homes, and the experience one can expect from buying a new Persimmon Home or a new Westbury Parnerships Home is not something I'd want to experience either. Articles like this paint (in my opinion) a rosie view of the reality of buying a Charles Church property. Our own experience has been the worst of our lives, nothing comes close to the upset and distress caused by the Persimmon Group staff and operatives.

Notes: Persimmon Homes bought Westbury PLC in November 2005 after a £643,000,000 bid and Beazer Homes in 2001 for £537,500,000.

Nothing new about this . . .

Catalogue of faults, customers pressurised into exhanging contracts - we know how this feels.
http://www.thecomet.net/content/comet/news/story.aspx?brand=CMTOnline&category=News&tBrand=herts24&tCategory=newscomnew&itemid=WEED26%20Oct%202006%2012%3A00%3A57%3A180

http://www.snagging.org/New_Homes_News/New_Homes_News/Couples_new_home_nightmare.html

This really does sum up our experiences with Charles Church, part of Persimmon Group, except we never got the apology. We had dangerous unsafe electrics, substandard upstairs floor (unlevel, noisy, creaky, bouncy, deflecting), and a fire risk on a electric heat exchanger (gas central heating) which took the best part of 9 months to even check, let alone rectify, after the Charles Church representative (The Count as workmen referred to him) was present and we were first informed.

In researching flooring issues with JJI Joists, Persimmon Homes & Charles Church, one found mis-spellings a common issue. E.g. bouncey instead of bouncy, noisey instead of noisy.