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ImLostAgain | 16:03 Fri 06th Sep 2019 | How it Works
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Chatting to friends and we were talking about a building in our town and its year of construction. I have always been of the opinion that that was the year a building was completed but half of the company were of the opinion that is was when work on the building commenced.
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Generally speaking, for purposes of mortgage/insurance/NHBC, it's taken as when it's completed.

It wouldn't make a lot of sense to cite the date when construction began. The house I'm in now took two of us three years to build. Up until completion, it was just a building site.
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Cheers The Builder. That always made sense to me.
Might depend on where you are getting the date from. It was quite common for public buildings in the 19th Century to have a foundation stone (libraries, chapels, hospitals etc). Although not actually part of the foundations, the date on it would be a year or more before completion. Conversely, the houses on my estate were started in 1999, but the estate went on for a couple of years. However, all the ones built after Dec '99 have a little '2000' plaque on them...even the ones built in 2001!

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