Snagging Checklist

A new BBC television programme is looking for people across the UK whose lives and properties are currently in a state of chaos or disruption thanks to ‘cowboy’ workmen. This is your chance to get the job finished properly – and call to account the builders, plumbers, electricians, roofers or joiners responsible for the problem. Please leave a telephone message or email Mentorn Scotland and we will be in touch for a confidential discussion. Tel: 0141 331 7455 email builders@mentorn.tv. If emailing please include your location and name in the subject line.

Visitors to Bovis Homes' website are reassured that when buying a new home 'you want to be sure you can trust your builder'. Rennie and Sheralee Bottali took the company at its word - only to find themselves living in a house of horrors for seven months. The couple expected their new £700,000 three- storey detached house to be in perfect condition when they picked up the keys.

Entrepreneurs Rennie and Sheralee Bottali's long-running wrangles with housebuilder Bovis Homes over the luxury three-storey property have attracted almost 100,000 hits since they set up the site March. The couple say they resorted to creating the page - www.whybovishomes.co.uk - after what they allege is a catalogue of botched jobs, poor workmanship and unfinished building work. They have also erected a 10-yard-long banner outside the house in Cambourne, Cambs.

Granada Television is looking for stories for the prime time series - Homes from Hell on ITV1. Do you know of anyone whose home has become a living nightmare? We want to hear about all and any domestic disaster zones - the new build house with a monster list of snags, the expensive development riddled with faults, the new estate built in the wrong place, the cowboy built house that’s falling apart etc.

In June 2007, the OFT launched a study into the UK homebuilding market. We said that we would consider whether there were any competition and consumer protection concerns in this sector. This study has now been running for nearly a year and is due to report, as we said at the outset, in September this year. We have been working with many stakeholders and commissioned various surveys to gather evidence. We are now coming to the end of our evidence gathering phase and over the next couple of months will discuss our initial findings with the homebuilding industry, consumer groups and...

A new BBC television programme is looking for people across the UK whose lives and properties are currently in a state of chaos or disruption thanks to ‘cowboy’ workmen. This is your chance to get the job finished properly – and call to account the builders, plumbers, electricians, roofers or joiners responsible for the problem. Please leave a telephone message or email Mentorn Scotland and we will be in touch for a confidential discussion. Tel: 0141 331 7455 email builders@mentorn.tv. If emailing please include your location and name in the subject line.

Visitors to Bovis Homes' website are reassured that when buying a new home 'you want to be sure you can trust your builder'. Rennie and Sheralee Bottali took the company at its word - only to find themselves living in a house of horrors for seven months. The couple expected their new £700,000 three- storey detached house to be in perfect condition when they picked up the keys.

Entrepreneurs Rennie and Sheralee Bottali's long-running wrangles with housebuilder Bovis Homes over the luxury three-storey property have attracted almost 100,000 hits since they set up the site March. The couple say they resorted to creating the page - www.whybovishomes.co.uk - after what they allege is a catalogue of botched jobs, poor workmanship and unfinished building work. They have also erected a 10-yard-long banner outside the house in Cambourne, Cambs.

Granada Television is looking for stories for the prime time series - Homes from Hell on ITV1. Do you know of anyone whose home has become a living nightmare? We want to hear about all and any domestic disaster zones - the new build house with a monster list of snags, the expensive development riddled with faults, the new estate built in the wrong place, the cowboy built house that’s falling apart etc.

In June 2007, the OFT launched a study into the UK homebuilding market. We said that we would consider whether there were any competition and consumer protection concerns in this sector. This study has now been running for nearly a year and is due to report, as we said at the outset, in September this year. We have been working with many stakeholders and commissioned various surveys to gather evidence. We are now coming to the end of our evidence gathering phase and over the next couple of months will discuss our initial findings with the homebuilding industry, consumer groups and...