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There ought to be a law

April 8th, 2007 at 07:52 pm

There ought to be a law requiring the names of bad builders to be published. We just came back from looking at a spec house at the owners request.
The house is dangerous. Even I could tell the floor was sagging and the doors would not close. The roof was sagging!
There was jacks in the crawl space, holding up the floor. The rock had all fallen off the fireplace. The list of things that had failed inspection was 2 sheets long.The large windows in the bedrooms were above my head, that is against code.(You have to be able to crawl out a window in case of fire) There was no way to even fix that without tearing off the roof. What a mess!It will take a lot of money to fix what can be fixed and a lot of it cannot be fixed because the house is too far along. I wish we had better news to give to the owners.

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3 Responses to “There ought to be a law”

  1. boomeyers Says:
    April 8th, 2007 at 10:38 pm 1176071938
    1176071938

    We used to say that about the builders of our old house. They built it with a beer in one hand and their thumb up their.....well never mind, but you get it. When we replaced the carpet, we found dirt, wrappers, cigarette butts, just underneath on the subfloor. They were pigs!

  2. Nic Says:
    April 9th, 2007 at 01:37 am 1176082674
    1176082674

    Makes you wonder where the building inspectors were?
    What about the plans? Who signed off on it?
    When my house (in Honolulu) was being built, the crew would show up on one day and be MIA for the next three. We found out the sales crew was so busy selling the contractor/company, the crew would have to frame a house a week just to keep up, and then go back and put in a floor here,a wall there,a roof elsewhere....
    I finally resorted to witholding payment until they actually finished it and I received the certificate of occupancy. And by then, I had already moved in.

  3. Ima saver Says:
    April 9th, 2007 at 12:04 pm 1176120253
    1176120253

    The building inspectors had two pages of things wrong. The builder just ignore it and went on building the house. We have no licensed builders in this state, so they do not have to build to code. My husband is licenses and by next year, they all have to be licensed. However, the guys that have been here, will get grandfathered in.

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