On 28 Mar 2007 12:55:34 -0700, wrote:



Nobody mentions a warranty. I bought a home from a builder in '95. I
got a drive by view. There was a problem later and the builder was
right there to fix it. A tree next door contributed damage to a water
main leak for the neighbor, again the builder was right there.

You probably have the only decent builder in the US that stands by his
warranty.

Probably not the only. Although this story is 42 years old, but with
the house my mother bought after my father died, the brick started to
chip, large chips, many an inch or two across and 3/16" thick.

At someone's suggestion, I painted the whole house, iirc, with
silicone of some sort, except for the higher part of the chimney.
That slowed it down a lot, or maybe even stopped it, but the chimney
was not safe anymore, and the walls were chipped and the silicon would
probably have to be redone periodically.

My mother had talked to someone and found out that the builder had
gotten a load of bad brick, and that others had the same problem, and
that he had given them money. My mother called him, and even though
we were not the first owners, and I'm sure he had no legal duty, and
the house was probably 10 years old, and the others were the same age,
he was going to come out and look and probably give us money.

I think he died that week.


We move a couple years later and the new owners had the chimney
rebuilt 1 to 3 feet shorter -- looked sortof funny -- and they also
put in central air on top of the hot air heat. I was at the house 40
years later and it still looked very nice. I didn't think to look at
the bricks. Oh! This might be why there was some splotchy white
finish on them. I don't know how to describe it, but house was a
mixture of red and white. I commented on it. Now I really have to go
look again and see if this was another effort to maintain the brick.

Or doesn't want to get sued since the correct brick choice is in the
contract we signed