Imagine not being able to get in or out of your new home.

This is the problem faced by several new owners of homes at the new Khutsong South Ext 5 and 6 housing development outside Welverdiend.

The Herald reported last week that many residents complain they have received substandard homes, as the paint and plaster are already starting to chip off, many of the roofs have not yet been completed, and some basic necessities such as taps are missing inside the homes.

On Monday another resident of this area, Justinus Lamola (64) showed how both the front and back door of his house cannot open after they were closed. Luckily for Lamola his eight-year-old grandson Lesedi, was with him in the house when he got stuck and was able, with the help of his grandfather, to get out through a window to get help from neighbours.

In the process to try to get out the front door’s handle broke off.

“This shows that the standard of the items they are building our houses with are not up to standard,” he complains.

Except for these problems, some of the family’s inside doors also cannot open.

The same problems exist at the houses of four of the Lamola family’s neighbours.

Sewage also leaks from the drain and an outside pipe at the Lamola family’s home.

Meanwhile the toilet in the house of Richard Mavuma was put in without any internal moving parts.

At another house water is leaking from an external water pipe that has been closed with only a piece of wire by the contractors.

The Herald took the issues to the municipality’s marketing and communications manager, Temba Fezani, but received no reply by printing time.