HaHaHa wrote:
Not to excuse the powers that be, but these issues don't crop up everywhere,
and some of them depend on the the way a particular family utilizes the home.
Understand that homebuilding is a business, not an art or a science, at least
not to the builders and developers who are in it for the money. The market is
what dictates what homes will and will not include, unless a code dictates
otherwise.
Asking "why didn't the builder just...?" is a sure sign that you the homeowner
thought s/he bought a home, when in reality, you bought a house.
True. Part of that expectation is what I do for a living: computer
programming. In my mind, it's all about doing things the right way, not
the quick or cheap way. "Right, Quick, or Cheap. Pick any two." So when
I see silly things like the missing flashing or the utility tub piper
trick, I get ticked because I know better and I expected the builder to
know better too.
Ah but it's the little things like that which when repaired, really give a
feeling of accomplishment and alleviate the distressful feeling that there's
something wrong with everything.
The only feeling I'd get from trying to fix that myself would be shock. :-)
Well, water flows into it, and drains out of it; except for the big
friggin leak at the m-2-m joint where the glue cracked open.
This is an easy weekend fix, but I don't use the sink much. Either way,
it never should've happened.
OK LOL! Iget it, the threaded male ends were glued to each other ?
Correct.
I'm suprised it didn't raise the inspector's eyebrow. Maybe the original
homeowner righhed this up, paid only for the "rough-in?"
He found it. I am just surprised it came that way. It was installed by
the builder.
The closet
shelves (installed by the builder) hit 0% of the studs.
Are these those wire-frame closet shelve systems designed to not have to
hit
studs?
The shelves are, the clothes hanger pipes aren't. The close hangers
pulled out already. Nothing a stud finder, and large screws didn't fix
in that case. Now it's a chinup bar. :-)
I too just can't understand why the framers don't automaticlly install a stud
in the center of the bar space. But some framers are still working like it's
pre-1980 and expect the old pine wood shelf to be installed on a pine 1 x 3 on
the backside, and both sides of the closet, with the clothes bar sockets
screwed into the 1 x 3.
THat's the funny part. She made them drop horizontals between the studs
at eye level in all three bedrooms to hand things from like pictures,
shelves and stuff. Apparently they had enough by the time they hung
stuff in the closets. :-)
Come on. It's the ONLY 14 gauge wire in the house. That's silly. We're
talking about 20ft of 12g on a 150k house.
1- Where the heck do YOU live?! 150k?!?!?
Crackron, OH ish.
2- I'm not ripping on Maximas, I'm ripping on the practice MANY people have who
gripe about the quality of anything and everything no matter what it is.
See first comment above. :-)
Well on the one hand you've got too much humidity. On the other hand, you can't
lower it much because, as you claim, much of your furniture is wood.
I think it'll survive just fine as long as it's above 25%. I'll have to
check the paperwork on it again.
I suspect your windows were either installed improperly, or weren't very well
insulated to begin with.
Nothing would surprise me at this point.
Changes in building codes have caused the problems. You need to crack open
a
couple of windows.
In the dead of winter. So the snow/sleet can come in, and sit on the
tops of the wood window frames? No thanks.
Uh... I said CRACK.
Well, their casements. Just cracking them means the upper wood fram is
exposed to the weather, which is mostly snow/sleet right now.
Hell, I've skipped days of
taking showers in the master bath, and taken them in the other bath in
the hall seperated from the more problemed rooms. The humidity is still
retarded in there.
How about house plants? Aquariums? Indoor hottubs? Boil a lot of water?
No plants. No aquarium. No hottub; god I wish. Rarely boil water; maybe
once every 2 weeks.
-=Chris
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