It was a spec house, not a custom builder. Not a lot you can do in that situation.
We made them crazy, so much so that they banned us from the job site near the end. Every day we walked through the house and wrote up any deficiencies. They had these little carbon less forms for this stuff, and we did it so much they finally just gave us a box if them. Sadly, most of what we wrote up was nothing more than compliance issues. I could write a book on the shoddy construction practices of this builder. The sad part was that they were one of the better ones in town. This was at the beginning of the housing boom down here, and places were being flung up so fast and so poorly it was scary. We did nothing more than hold them to their own specs, which most of their subs didn't know. What's even scarier were the people who bought inventory homes or never visited the job site when their home was being built. Those places are starting to really show their age and the poor construction, and they're not even 20 years old. Dan On Nov 2, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Mitch Haley <m...@voyager.net> wrote: > Dan Penoff wrote: > >> The one thing I always thought was peculiar was all of the attention >> to the roof decking and trusses, yet they continue to use aluminum >> framed single glazed windows. When we built our last house down here >> we wanted double pane windows for noise and energy efficiency, and the >> builder wouldn't do it. Strange. > > I wonder what he'd say if you fired him for that. > I'd dump a builder rather than take single pane, high solar gain windows in > Tampa, even if it meant finding another lot in another subdivision if the > builder owned the lot I wanted. > > Mitch. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
