Over the last 50 years material quality and workmanship have gone down. Now it’s a race to build a neighborhood as cheaply and quickly as possible, doing the job right be damned.
I’ll be honest with you: my house was built in the 1940s and it’s really not that great. Definitely not noticeably better build quality than my parents’ house built in the 1990s.
You should look up CyFy on YouTube. He does residential building inspection in Arizona and the build quality is appalling. Broken trusses, lacking insulation, roof leaks, stucco with exposed wire backing on top of literal cardboard for structure…
Cracks in the sinks and tubs, walls so horrifying out of square you wonder how they managed to fuck it up that badly. Unlevel floors with humps or saddles. Tiles misaligned so badly you can take a strip off your foot without realizing.
There’s always multiple things from the above in every house he posts… And it’s not just one house, it’s all of them. Literally all of them… They deny, delay, defend the shit out of warranty claims and at least in Arizona hope you close and don’t raise a fuss before hand.
That’s because he doesn’t get called in unless the homeowner believes there are egregious problems for him to find. It’s sampling bias, not a universal trend.
He talks about this in his videos where he’ll see the same problems in half the homes in a neighborhood because neighbors talk to each other and recommend him
Edit: just watch some of his videos you won’t have to spend much time to see what I mean. It’s systemic…
“Systemic” within one neighborhood (or even one builder) isn’t the same as “systemic” in general. I mean, of course if one builder doing something wrong, he’s likely to be doing it wrong consistently. But unless that builder is, say, D.R. Horton (which, to be fair, it very well could be), you can’t really say that just because one random builder is doing it wrong that means the entire industry is doing it wrong.
Over the last 50 years material quality and workmanship have gone down. Now it’s a race to build a neighborhood as cheaply and quickly as possible, doing the job right be damned.
I’ll be honest with you: my house was built in the 1940s and it’s really not that great. Definitely not noticeably better build quality than my parents’ house built in the 1990s.
You should look up CyFy on YouTube. He does residential building inspection in Arizona and the build quality is appalling. Broken trusses, lacking insulation, roof leaks, stucco with exposed wire backing on top of literal cardboard for structure…
Cracks in the sinks and tubs, walls so horrifying out of square you wonder how they managed to fuck it up that badly. Unlevel floors with humps or saddles. Tiles misaligned so badly you can take a strip off your foot without realizing.
There’s always multiple things from the above in every house he posts… And it’s not just one house, it’s all of them. Literally all of them… They deny, delay, defend the shit out of warranty claims and at least in Arizona hope you close and don’t raise a fuss before hand.
That’s because he doesn’t get called in unless the homeowner believes there are egregious problems for him to find. It’s sampling bias, not a universal trend.
He talks about this in his videos where he’ll see the same problems in half the homes in a neighborhood because neighbors talk to each other and recommend him
Edit: just watch some of his videos you won’t have to spend much time to see what I mean. It’s systemic…
“Systemic” within one neighborhood (or even one builder) isn’t the same as “systemic” in general. I mean, of course if one builder doing something wrong, he’s likely to be doing it wrong consistently. But unless that builder is, say, D.R. Horton (which, to be fair, it very well could be), you can’t really say that just because one random builder is doing it wrong that means the entire industry is doing it wrong.
Yeah just watch his videos. He’s not beholden to one builder or one neighborhood he’s all over the place and inspects on dozens of builders.
We had a new subdivision in which every single roof failed in 6 years.
How could you leave out the gas leaks? In every single fucking house he inspects.
Oh yeah you’re right lol I forgot about those somehow! I laughed when he checked like 8 houses in a row and they all leaked.
Builders know most of the buyers are Boomers who will be dead in under a decade, so make everything last 11 years.
I’ll add that I recently bought a house built in the last decade and the home inspector remarked how well put together it was.