Likewise. Keep thinking they've probably posted all them by now, but nope another happy surprise. Snow in the attic is something I've never heard of before. Bizarre.
you would think the insurance companies would track which contractors built the houses where they have to settle damage claims for water leaks and report them to the government agencies responsible for inspections and permits.
At the time when this was first shown they had the new home warranty out there, the building companies would make excuses putting off returning until the program had expired saving them from spending the money to repair the problem/problems and got away with it
Homeowner's insurance usually won't cover damage from structural defects. They have little skin in the game. New home warranty, which is often included, is fine for simple repairs. However, for major work they'll make excuses while slow rolling it, such as doing token fixes to buy time, until the coverage term runs out. Very common.
When you can't get a hold of the building superintendent, you should call the local TV STATION and file a complaint!!! Then sit back and wait, they WILL BE CONTACTING YOU REAL SOON!!!
Since the builder did such a bad job on this house it makes me wonder about the adjoining ones around this house hopefully these homeowners don’t have future damage to their house because of the adjoining ones
If there were severe criminal penalties, much of these incidents wouldn't happen. Instead, it's considered a civil matter. Easy to walk away from. Builders usually setup a separate company for each development to limit their financial exposure. Sure, one can sue, but often unless one does so during the building phase, there will be little to no money to go after.
If someone fell through that roof, there might be enough momentum that the ceiling of the second floor wouldn't do much to break your fall if you don't smack some rafters and joists on the way down. YIKES!
All the neighbors should come together with this video and take the builders, home warranty people to court. If one home is like this then all the others would be like this. I am sure the builders would have to go out business.
My dad was a carpenter and I built many houses with him and my brothers. When I built my house I hired a contractor to do the framing. Had to fire him because he and crew were taking so many short cuts that cost me a lot of time. 🤨
Talk to your neighbours. Are they having similar problems? Sue the beggars. Possibly class-action. If you put the crooked or incompitent contractors out of business in the process, even better. At least they won't be doing this to anyone else. Edit: Roofers! Yes, use 1/2 inch plywood. Yes, lay it across the rafters. Yes, use cleats to secure the edges in between the rafters. 3/8 inch OSB layed along the rafters will cave in. It's not a matter of if. OSB does not belong on a roof at any thickness. If it gets damp, it disintegrates. Ask me how I know.
Builders usually set up separate companies for each development. Sure, one can sue, but there's often little money to go after. Builder being bonded is better than nothing, but often not by much. Substandard work that doesn't meet code should be a crime, but isn't most anywhere in the U.S. nor Canada. Long as the builder puts up something, most one can do is file complaints and sue.
My mother would have gotten on the phone with the contractor. The contractor 's office would have become one big scorch mark. The house would have been fixed completely within 72 hours. My mom could shatter concrete with one look. Yes, she was a Catholic school teacher.
The Roof, 3/4" tongue and groove with a adhesive before screwing down then adding the layers down, then a 25 to 50 year metal Roof. Why didn't y'all go this way ?
I would for sure name-shame the builder so the whole world knows what crap they are putting out. I would also seriously sick my lawyer on the builder. This is a massive lawsuit in the making...
The home builder needs to be sued and put out of business. The owner of the building company needs to be in prison, he is just a scammer. The superintendent needs to be sued and in prison too.
This episode is from a decade or more ago. Near certain none of those things happened to the builder. There's little consumer protection for shoddy work. Generally considered a civil matter. About the only way for a builder to get charged criminally is to take money and do no work. That's why shady home contractors will show up and something, such as moving dirt around, putting up some framing, etc. That's the trick to avoid criminal prosecution.
My parents bought a new house back in 1968. After a few weeks, we noticed a hump in the kitchen floor and that the bedroom door on the second floor over that hump didn't close properly anymore. About 22 years later, when I did a complete gut and renovation of the basement, I looked up next to the main heating pipe and saw that the builders had taken a massive notch out of a tripled up 2 by 10 and what was left had broken and sagged down. No coincidence, that is where the hump in the kitchen floor was. My Dad got a jack-post and shoved that broken timber back up where it belonged. We secured it in place with angle iron on either side. The hump in the kitchen floor was cured and the bedroom door upstairs squared up again. When I did the partition again, I just left the jack-post in the wall. This was a professional contractor that built hundreds of homes in my neighbourhood alone. I'm sure the house was inspected, but I was only 7 at the time, so how would I know? How could they make such a huge mistake like that and just leave it? SMH.
The weak spots look like places for skylights. The builder is going to look like an idiot when people come to look at the homes he built and people see a metalroof on one house and people ask why?Because I didn't build it right the first time.
This episode is from over a decade ago. Wonder about the other homes that weren't repaired. Were they gutted and redone, demolished, or little done at all. Curious if the couple shown in this episode still live there. Or are even together, but that's another topic.
Homeful needs a wall of shame for all the jobs theyve done cleaning up after bad and sloppy actors, so ppl can come and see who to avoid. I dont even live in NA and it irks me that people gets off this kinda practice and continues to do it to the next area they go to.
Close off the vents and seal the outer part of the attic and you wont get snow in the attic roofs dont need ventilation a chimney is what thats for especially if you have a room in your attic you definitely dont need ventilation through holes
I don't care how old this video is, it's my first time seeing this episode so thank you for loading it.
same here
My first time seeing it too. There are a lot of reruns coming in but I watch them again anyway.
Me too
Likewise. Keep thinking they've probably posted all them by now, but nope another happy surprise. Snow in the attic is something I've never heard of before. Bizarre.
Thank You for sharing all these great Holmes Episodes! Always a treat to watch the fix it right process.
All those other homeowners are going to be soooooooo envious 😮❤🎉❤
I was thinking the same. Can you imagine thinking " great now I have to check for all these very expensive issues" . Ouch.
Pinky is so cute. Giggles while they tease her about her hair and then climbs a ladder and tears down a ceiling. What a woman!
mike is simply the best
All I can say is, WOW?!!!!
you would think the insurance companies would track which contractors built the houses where they have to settle damage claims for water leaks and report them to the government agencies responsible for inspections and permits.
At the time when this was first shown they had the new home warranty out there, the building companies would make excuses putting off returning until the program had expired saving them from spending the money to repair the problem/problems and got away with it
And the developers only care about their profits and look the other way. Consumers are just as bad
You would think there would be a class action lawsuit, with all the neighbors, against the builders.
Homeowner's insurance usually won't cover damage from structural defects. They have little skin in the game. New home warranty, which is often included, is fine for simple repairs. However, for major work they'll make excuses while slow rolling it, such as doing token fixes to buy time, until the coverage term runs out. Very common.
When you can't get a hold of the building superintendent, you should call the local TV STATION and file a complaint!!! Then sit back and wait, they WILL BE CONTACTING YOU REAL SOON!!!
Since the builder did such a bad job on this house it makes me wonder about the adjoining ones around this house hopefully these homeowners don’t have future damage to their house because of the adjoining ones
My goodness Mike Homes is so gorgeous.
pick a number... LOL...
Snow in the attic 😮
Unbelievable. I’ll never understand how some people (contractors) can do this.
If there were severe criminal penalties, much of these incidents wouldn't happen. Instead, it's considered a civil matter. Easy to walk away from. Builders usually setup a separate company for each development to limit their financial exposure. Sure, one can sue, but often unless one does so during the building phase, there will be little to no money to go after.
If one house has problems in a new estate, then you can be every house in that estate will be exactly the same!
If someone fell through that roof, there might be enough momentum that the ceiling of the second floor wouldn't do much to break your fall if you don't smack some rafters and joists on the way down.
YIKES!
All the neighbors should come together with this video and take the builders, home warranty people to court. If one home is like this then all the others would be like this. I am sure the builders would have to go out business.
Wonder if they put shaft liner in between homes
33:54 they built the fences in the back
My dad was a carpenter and I built many houses with him and my brothers. When I built my house I hired a contractor to do the framing. Had to fire him because he and crew were taking so many short cuts that cost me a lot of time. 🤨
Talk to your neighbours. Are they having similar problems?
Sue the beggars. Possibly class-action. If you put the crooked or incompitent contractors out of business in the process, even better. At least they won't be doing this to anyone else.
Edit: Roofers! Yes, use 1/2 inch plywood. Yes, lay it across the rafters. Yes, use cleats to secure the edges in between the rafters. 3/8 inch OSB layed along the rafters will cave in. It's not a matter of if. OSB does not belong on a roof at any thickness. If it gets damp, it disintegrates. Ask me how I know.
obs doesn't belong as a flooring material either, guess how i found that out (jfc it was used in a _bathroom_ , dear god the mold)
Attic ladder in the office
Builders usually set up separate companies for each development. Sure, one can sue, but there's often little money to go after. Builder being bonded is better than nothing, but often not by much. Substandard work that doesn't meet code should be a crime, but isn't most anywhere in the U.S. nor Canada. Long as the builder puts up something, most one can do is file complaints and sue.
I wonder what the builder and site super are thinking after seeing this, and you know they are.
If I had not seen this video, I would refuse to believe that ANYONE would build a roof that shoddy. This video is a horror film.
My mother would have gotten on the phone with the contractor. The contractor 's office would have become one big scorch mark. The house would have been fixed completely within 72 hours.
My mom could shatter concrete with one look. Yes, she was a Catholic school teacher.
We'll have Nun of that.
Yes, I do know that not all Catholic school teachers are nuns, but I couldn't resist.
@@surferdude4487 She took her teacher training at a small college run by nuns. She loved them!
The Roof, 3/4" tongue and groove with a adhesive before screwing down then adding the layers down, then a 25 to 50 year metal Roof.
Why didn't y'all go this way ?
I would for sure name-shame the builder so the whole world knows what crap they are putting out. I would also seriously sick my lawyer on the builder. This is a massive lawsuit in the making...
Even Pinky went through a goth phase lol
Would a ceiling fan work in a vaulted ceiling that high?
I hope the entire neighborhood brought a class action lawsuit on the crook developer and superintendent
46:13 Damon don't inhale.....
I don’t see tar paper
Burt Reynolds died in 2018 at age 82.
Is it me, or does this home owner look like Ryan Reynolds! 🤔
where's the tar paper?
he kinda looks like ryan renolds
That has to be awful having a train in your backyard.
The home builder needs to be sued and put out of business. The owner of the building company needs to be in prison, he is just a scammer. The superintendent needs to be sued and in prison too.
This episode is from a decade or more ago. Near certain none of those things happened to the builder. There's little consumer protection for shoddy work. Generally considered a civil matter. About the only way for a builder to get charged criminally is to take money and do no work. That's why shady home contractors will show up and something, such as moving dirt around, putting up some framing, etc. That's the trick to avoid criminal prosecution.
NEVER. GET. A .NEW. HOUSE!
My parents bought a new house back in 1968. After a few weeks, we noticed a hump in the kitchen floor and that the bedroom door on the second floor over that hump didn't close properly anymore. About 22 years later, when I did a complete gut and renovation of the basement, I looked up next to the main heating pipe and saw that the builders had taken a massive notch out of a tripled up 2 by 10 and what was left had broken and sagged down. No coincidence, that is where the hump in the kitchen floor was. My Dad got a jack-post and shoved that broken timber back up where it belonged. We secured it in place with angle iron on either side. The hump in the kitchen floor was cured and the bedroom door upstairs squared up again. When I did the partition again, I just left the jack-post in the wall.
This was a professional contractor that built hundreds of homes in my neighbourhood alone. I'm sure the house was inspected, but I was only 7 at the time, so how would I know? How could they make such a huge mistake like that and just leave it? SMH.
The weak spots look like places for skylights. The builder is going to look like an idiot when people come to look at the homes he built and people see a metalroof on one house and people ask why?Because I didn't build it right the first time.
Mike Holmes has taught me that old homes are terrible and new homes are terrible. I don't want to rent forever. So what now?
Buy a tent. Cheap and often more waterproof than many homes. An added bonus is paying no property taxes.
This is a self selecying group.
If 10% of homes had serious problems you would hear much more about it.
I just don't understand why someone would want to buy an attached like these
Sad part is all the homes there are trash
Wonder if they are still living there.
This episode is from over a decade ago. Wonder about the other homes that weren't repaired. Were they gutted and redone, demolished, or little done at all. Curious if the couple shown in this episode still live there. Or are even together, but that's another topic.
Where were the city/county code inspectors?
Looks like someone got paid.....................
That builder needs to lose their license.
666 like on the video 😊
Homeful needs a wall of shame for all the jobs theyve done cleaning up after bad and sloppy actors, so ppl can come and see who to avoid.
I dont even live in NA and it irks me that people gets off this kinda practice and continues to do it to the next area they go to.
he watch to many TOH..."On the Money".
The builder needs to loose there licenses
now they will sell for 3 times what they paid snd move to s bette place...they r bankrupt now
Close off the vents and seal the outer part of the attic and you wont get snow in the attic roofs dont need ventilation a chimney is what thats for especially if you have a room in your attic you definitely dont need ventilation through holes
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