We are a property investment company with holdings in both commercial and residential properties. Over the last five years we have purchased seven Peveril homes, on two developments at Fritchley and South Wingfield, Derbyshire. Having been initially very satisfied we have unfortunately experienced a catalogue of problems with the plumbing installations in these houses. At Fritchley these included badly fitted and leaking shower doors; the rainwater goods on every house (5 Nr) had a variety of defects, some of which became apparent after the two year warranty period and we have had to rectify at our own expense. One bath was poorly installed, it sank down leaving a gap between the top of the bath and the tiling- this had to be re-fitted. Defective lead flashings on the chimney stacks of one of the houses, causing rainwater ingress to the loft space, resulted in both chimney stacks having to be fully scaffolded, the stacks demolished and new corrected leadwork fitted and the stacks rebuilt. This problem was replicated on other houses on the estate not in our ownership. On two houses leaks on waste pipework in the ceiling void caused staining on the ground floor plaster ceilings. We had to remedy these difficult repairs at our own expense as these were outside the warranty period. By far the worst problem encountered has been at South Wingfield where again pipework under pressure in the ceiling void ruptured and caused a catastrophic flood in a house that had only been occupied for two weeks. Also the boiler programmer did not work properly. Sadly we have lost confidence in the plumbing systems in these houses , in particular the fast-fit plastic pipework used and the standard of workmanship employed fitting it. Better more robust plastic systems are available. We have therefore regrettably taken the decision as a company not to purchase any further houses from Peveril.