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re: New Construction Drainage Worry
Posted on 3/19/24 at 11:54 am to poochie
Posted on 3/19/24 at 11:54 am to poochie
That house looks super low based on the other houses that can be seen in the background.
This is a major Problem I have with new builds. Often very little is budgeted for exterior property work like fine grading, drainage and landscaping. I’ve done my fair share of 500k homes with landscape budgets at $7500 including sod.
GC’s don’t grade properly and often have inadequate sub base littered with trash, concrete debris, and numerous divots.
To the OP, I wouldn’t buy this house without major contingencies on addressing the drainage, verification of the finished floor elevations and a through home inspection.
This is a major Problem I have with new builds. Often very little is budgeted for exterior property work like fine grading, drainage and landscaping. I’ve done my fair share of 500k homes with landscape budgets at $7500 including sod.
GC’s don’t grade properly and often have inadequate sub base littered with trash, concrete debris, and numerous divots.
To the OP, I wouldn’t buy this house without major contingencies on addressing the drainage, verification of the finished floor elevations and a through home inspection.
This post was edited on 3/19/24 at 11:55 am
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Posted on 3/19/24 at 1:33 pm to poochie
I was being purposefully vague on it since this all happened after I was already under contract on it. I didn’t know if talking on here about it was somehow in violation of the contract in case the builder frequented tigerdroppings.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 1:40 pm to Geauxld Finger
How would you go about those contingencies? Let him fix it and get it inspected? Or ask for a bunch of money off up from and do it myself after purchase?
Posted on 3/19/24 at 2:11 pm to Kunu
only you know where you stand in the purchasing process and/or what you can ask for at this point. be sure to read your contract but this is something you definitely want to get addressed.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 5:01 pm to GEAUXT
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Why in the world would you want to buy that house? I bet your wife likes the stainless appliances and upgraded granite counters
The aforementioned house I spoke of in a previous post, my wife fell in love with the house despite all of the disasters.
Thank the Lord, someone else came along and bought it before we finalized the deal.
It would have been a massive money pit, just to fix what should never have been an issue.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 6:03 pm to Kunu
couple things not brought up yet
-it’s been a wet winter here, but every winter is wet
-they just put the sod down evidently
-it will not survive being underwater like that
-regardless of what you do or don’t do to address the drainage, you are going to lose all that grass
-it will be replaced by dollar weed and other ditch weeds
-the soils under that sod are probably clay, so the only way that water is going to recede is by evaporating
-your going to lose those fence posts as well, eventually
-the fence is now in the way of fixing the storm drainage
good luck my brother
-it’s been a wet winter here, but every winter is wet
-they just put the sod down evidently
-it will not survive being underwater like that
-regardless of what you do or don’t do to address the drainage, you are going to lose all that grass
-it will be replaced by dollar weed and other ditch weeds
-the soils under that sod are probably clay, so the only way that water is going to recede is by evaporating
-your going to lose those fence posts as well, eventually
-the fence is now in the way of fixing the storm drainage
good luck my brother
Posted on 3/19/24 at 6:29 pm to Kunu
Have you already went through the home inspection process? I'm assuming the contract is based on home inspection but only you know what is written in the contract
Posted on 3/19/24 at 7:03 pm to Kunu
How much would you lose if you walk away?
Posted on 3/19/24 at 7:05 pm to Kunu
What state are you in?
Posted on 3/19/24 at 7:52 pm to AFtigerFan
Zero dollars as of now. Inspectors go out later this week. After they finish their inspections I’ll owe those costs but I still have time to get out based on what they find.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 7:52 pm to Grassy1
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Posted on 3/20/24 at 8:38 am to cgrand
Agree on all those things. There’s probably 30k in work that needs to be done to remediate this properly.
Regrade
add suitable sod base
Install drainage
Replace fence
Address gutters or lack of
Re-sod
Fix potential house issues due to poor construction work
Regrade
add suitable sod base
Install drainage
Replace fence
Address gutters or lack of
Re-sod
Fix potential house issues due to poor construction work
Posted on 3/20/24 at 12:55 pm to Geauxld Finger
I would pass on that house/mosquito breeding area.
Posted on 3/20/24 at 6:20 pm to bengalman
Didn't even think about that. They would eat me alive if I lived there
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