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Posted on 4/15/22 at 3:01 am to Cosmo
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Courtney could have bought a nicer house if she hadnt wasted 100k on her dream wedding
Lol the guy who was an OT Covid Dr. can't read too good.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 6:29 am to goofball
Biggest thing is probably lack of quality control.
No matter how good the materials are if you let the village idiot in the crew put your weatherization barrier up, flash your windows, and penetrations water will come in. Some products argue low perm in this market and others high perm. It really comes down to opinion.
Yes, the roofers in the video should have put some felt to replace the torn felt.
They also build these homes where you do not have a lot of airflow coming from the soffits, to push the air out the top ridge vents or toward the turbines.
I see Village idiots put shingles on after a rain storm and the felt paper was wet. This caused waves in the roof.
Seen where the framer did not frame a hall closet correctly. Left an opening to the ceiling and the Sheetrock installers did not call the builder. They sheet-rocked it. Builder had to go fix everything so they could put pocket doors in.
All this is the builders fault for not properly supervising the job.
No matter how good the materials are if you let the village idiot in the crew put your weatherization barrier up, flash your windows, and penetrations water will come in. Some products argue low perm in this market and others high perm. It really comes down to opinion.
Yes, the roofers in the video should have put some felt to replace the torn felt.
They also build these homes where you do not have a lot of airflow coming from the soffits, to push the air out the top ridge vents or toward the turbines.
I see Village idiots put shingles on after a rain storm and the felt paper was wet. This caused waves in the roof.
Seen where the framer did not frame a hall closet correctly. Left an opening to the ceiling and the Sheetrock installers did not call the builder. They sheet-rocked it. Builder had to go fix everything so they could put pocket doors in.
All this is the builders fault for not properly supervising the job.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 9:20 am to EA6B
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My previous home was built in 1931
Its just not a comparable home. Everything was different back then even the lumber. They didn't use sheetrock they used plaster so you don't see the sheetrock mud shrinking. They didn't use the same sheathing and decking that we do today. You can point and say that yes a true 2x4 is stronger than today's 1.5x3.5's but the true 2x4's are just not available today in a scale and a cost it would take to build an entire home.
Also I go back to we're comparing a 1st year home to a home you're talking about that has 70/80 years on it. Im pretty sure in those 70/80 years that house has been worked on and issues resolved. But the "older homes are built better" idea is just completely false. Older homes have had more work done fixing issues. But newer homes have better building materials and practices (for the most part that is. Builders cutting corners like we're talking about with Horton is obviously another story).
Older homes in windstorm areas don't have the strapping that is required today. Depending on year older homes are built with black board or "r board" for their sheathing rather than structural OSB. Older homes have unsafe wiring by today's standards. Older homes have cast iron piping and piping under the slab that causes all kinds of problems. The insulation in older homes is a substandard material - some of which has fallen all to the bottom of the walls. I've torn up floors where the moisture barrier was newspaper. It's just not correct for people to imply "these new homes are built like shite compared to older homes".
Posted on 4/15/22 at 9:35 am to statman34
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DR Horton cuts corners in every way to keep their costs low and their profits high.
You could be right. I’m sure this business concept is brand new.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 9:49 am to lsu777
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lsu777
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proper building codes have very little to do with flooding that has to do with permitting of the development itself by the parish. Same with traffic. That all has to do with the planning department in the local parish/city government.
This is complete BS. The codes could require higher standards re: freeboard. The I-Codes for Residential have included higher standards for close to a decade. Other states (like 2/3's of them) have this in their code. Louisiana needs it the most but...wait for it...doesn't.
Louisiana has-literally-stripped those sections of the code out to allow us to build to LOWER standards.
Meanwhile, FEMA's spent FOUR BILLION DOLLARS in the last decade (half a billion a year) on disasters that include flooding to help us recover.
In other words-our appointed officials and elected leaders are allowing us to continue to let developers build houses in ways and manners that let them get wet, and FEMA's spending billions here to help bail them out.
We shite on FEMA and turn a blind eye to what's really going on.
That isn't sustainable.
We could make things better. We've chosen-repeatedly-not to do that. We all know why.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 10:06 am to goofball
It’s a double wide on a slab
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