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It''s a new house, I don't need an inspection, right?
 
As an inspector I’ve often heard "I don't need to get an inspection, it’s a new house."  Big mistake, made by the inexperienced,most often young couples.  New construction is where the biggest problems exist.  The problem is not 'glue verses wood' or any other technological innovations.  Each technology selected is a working durable system and as long as it is fully implemented and integrated into the home construction it's fine.  The knowledge is there.
The problem arises from lack of supervision both in the architectural decision stages and the on site management.  It used to be the norm that a building was erected by a general contractor who put a full time supervisor on site and directly hired (on payroll) all the required manpower and tradesmen.  Only materials suppliers were subcontractors.
Now there are no general contractors like that, they are project managers, and everyone working on the building is a subcontractor.  So there is no supervision, or very little, and no one has detailed responsibility for any given building.  Developers are often the project managers themselves and are having sections of a development or series of condo structures being erected at one time.  Typically they are concerned with managing ... more

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