I have recently bought a new build in Hampshire with my wife. We are currently having our 10 days snags completed, one of them being the squeaky floor in our daughter's bedroom.
I managed to capture a conversation via our daughter's baby monitor while i was at work.
Some extracts from the audio are:
"this house type are all timber buttress walls. This ONE there is no timber buttress walls. Bit of joist movement, bit of metal on the joist, everythings dried out init. Lets not do f**king metal under there again, you have to do metal under there, it's a metal stud wall.
Every house like this is the same, this is the only one without timber buttress walls. Have timber buttress walls like I asked for, they came back to you and they said there is none in there. No ply under there or nothing not even the metal structural stuff, non load bearing."
Then they basically start talking about another one of their sites and how crap it is as they have also done it there.
They say its 60mm and the other builders use 75mm. They also start arguing about all the other houses have timber stud on the site and none have this issue. Then I can overhear them saying about its due to cutting costs etc.
I wanted to know from anyone if possible:
1) should it say anywhere it should have timber or metal or can they decide?
2) how should I proceed with this recording
3) why would my house be the only one on the site with a metal stud wall
any advise would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers.