Monday 9 March 2015

Home soil

After the Building Research Establishment announced their 'Home Quality Mark' scheme, a collective of existing buyers put together a retrospective scheme to indicate the quality of the homes they had already purchased to illustrate the real quality of current house building.
Based on extensive research, the collective published a form to describe their real world, non-marketing led experiences:



Please tick the box which mostly describes your new home:

Dire
Abysmal
Shit
Really shit
Appalling
Laughable
Depressing
OK*
Fantastic**


*a letter from doctor requesting sectioning required.

**Employees of building companies excluded from vote.

Disclaimer: This story is satire - this means it is for entertainment only and is not true. Mr Anthrop accepts no responsibility for the accuracy or otherwise of this information - it is all untrue. If you are a house developer reading this, well done!

Monday 2 March 2015

House of card

There is delight at struggling Wernham Hogg Paper Company today as David Cameron announces a new initiative to boost the housing crisis. He decreed an additional requirement of 200,000 low cost homes for the first time under 40's to find their dream home.
Building Industry rock dwellers rubbed their hands with glee at the prospect of receiving 850% profit instead of the usual 500%. Union bosses were less than impressed that instead of using their skilled chipboard rippers, the big construction firms were intent on using reception class pupils and copious amounts of Pritt stick®
Pissemoff Homes spokesperson Juliet Cameron-Hogg said that they would bring additional employment to the sector and specialist training staff would be sought for this feature. When further pressed on these specialists, Ms Cameron-Hogg admitted they would be supply teaching assistants who are the only certified specialists in this field.
The government went on to say that if these measures were not enough then the next stage of this idea would be brought in, but declined to expand on the measures.



In other news, toxic waste compacting company Faecalbrick PLC have announced a two million pound contribution to the conservative party.  

Disclaimer: This story is satire - this means it is for entertainment only and is not true. Mr Anthrop accepts no responsibility for the accuracy or otherwise of this information - it is all untrue. If you are a house developer reading this, well done!