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new construction inspection: There's Never Problems with New Construction Homes... Right? - 02/26/08 10:55 AM
I've posted about this subject before but I'll keep plugging away until people get it.  I just inspected a new construction home this weekend, this one was the model home, the cream of the crop, right?  Why would someone waste their money and have it inspected?  Here's why:
The tiles meeting the wall is called a head wall.  You can see a flat piece of metal over the tiles, that called a head wall flashing.  However, there is a gap between the flashing and the curves of the tiles.  There needs to be weather blocking there to keep water on the field tiles.  … (14 comments)

new construction inspection: Why Would Anyone Have a New Construction Home Inspected? - 01/11/08 04:37 PM
That's a waste of money, right?  It was just built, what could possibly be wrong?
The answer, anything and everything could possibly be wrong, not to say that it necessarily will, of course.  But I inspect quite a few new construction homes and I always find items that need correction, repair or need to be installed.  I've inspected custom built $8,000,000 homes to your standard cookie cutter new tract home.  It doesn't seem to matter, problems still exist.
My basic explanation is that with new homes there are a lot of sub contractors coming in and out of the project.  That's how problems … (12 comments)

 
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