How To Avoid New Home Construction Defects
If you have a problem with something that you purchase in
a store, you can simply return the item most of the time and get a
refund or another item that isn't damaged. In the new home building
construction business, this isn't exactly how it works, all of the time.
All of the products that are purchased are brought to the job site and
assembled into the new home. If any of these items are damaged, there's
a good chance that they will need to be removed, if possible and
returned to the store that they were purchased from to make the
exchange.
That's okay and usually works… sometimes. If you install a couple of
boxes of floor tile and you notice that there is a flaw of some sort
after you have installed them, I don't think the store is going to be
happy or interested in having you return floor tiles that have tile
grout or adhesive dried on to the back of them.
In other words, some new home construction defects are going to be
bigger problems than others. If you notice there's a chip in a piece of
tile, bathroom sink or even a light fixture, don't bother to install it
in the new house. This is the point when it needs to be returned for an
undamaged item.
By now you're probably wondering, wouldn't everybody do this, isn't this
kind of stuff called common sense. Not when someone's in a hurry and
isn't really worried about the finished product. The biggest problems
with construction defects in new homes is building materials that get
damaged by other workers or building materials that are already damaged
and installed anyway.
There's not a lot that you're going to be able to do about building
materials that become damaged after they are installed, but there is
something that you can do before they are installed.