Didn't get an inspection? This could be your house.
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- Опубліковано 24 гру 2023
- First part is inspecting from the car on the way to the jobsite.
Then some great finds on the pre-drywall job I did outside of Austin. Luckily the builder got a lot of these problems corrected!
Did yours?
It all starts with cardboard sheathing. Any developer that builds with that junk is not going to be paying attention to detail on anything, except closing on time and maximizing profit. I feel sorry for the families who buy those money-pit houses.
Don’t feel sorry for the family. They prioritize looks over function
I love the attention to detail. Making our homes better every day!
Jajajaja 😂
Great video, damn scary to see the poor workmanship on brand new houses. I would say you have job security with all the violations you found.
The thing that I can take comfort in is that he's not making more videos. If instead of weekly vids of a few problem houses, we had daily ones, I'd be much more concerned.
@@gordo5238 - with many of those houses not getting an independent inspection by someone like the one in this video has.
@@gordo5238 How many crews work on your current jobsite? How many homes?
@@gordo5238 Sounds like you don't have any experience in the field. I hope your day is as pleasant as you are.
Tract home hacks with little to no supervision.....the new standard for homes on America...very sad indeed.
What supervision that there is is only there to speed the progress along, not to make sure things are constructed properly.
@@stevebabiak6997 To pass inspection*
ALl JUNK, and spaced so close to each other- one has a fire and it spreads one to the next on both sides like throwing a lit match into a box of matches. You couldnt pay me enough to live in a house 10 feet away from those on both sides! you'd hear them flush toilets, their TV/stereo, arguments, NO THANKS!
It is sad but you can't blame the industry. You blame the culture that buys them. People buy them as fast as a builder can throw them together. Should a builder put another $50K into them for quality when the buying market doesn't care about quality they can't see? Buyers today see nice bathrooms, nice kitchens and fake wood floors and they are happy.
Worked new home construction in Austin area many years ago as a finish carpenter. Saw inspectors pull up, job boss goes out, inspector signs off on paperwork and leaves without ever getting out of the pick up. Common occurrence.
mi mano lava tu mano
That’s the way it was in the Detroit suburbs when I started framing in 1990. Put the permit board out by the road and they’d drive by give you a green sticker and be on their way.
I'm down in Austin visiting family for the holidays, I knew the pace of development was high compared to my neck of the woods (Pennsylvania) but seeing it with my own eyes is something else. We took my niece to a park in the city and must have passed by 20 brand new developments plastered with "now leasing" signs, which all looked exactly like the ones in this video. Seeing that gave me flashbacks to 2008... hope I'm just paranoid. Anyway, I always appreciate the videos, Merry Christmas & thanks for the entertainment!
I had a custom house built several years ago (Design Tech) and my entire lumber load sat out in the rain for more than a month. I told the construction supervisor that his pile of twisted pretzels were not going to be in my house. During framing, I showed up on site every day with a can of red spray paint, so I could mark every defective board. That supervisor was eventually fired and his replacement was much better. Even custom builders can be problematic. Both of our water heaters turned out to be used, not new. The furnace control board was obsolete. And yada yada yada. We eventually sold the house as it wasn’t our retirement dream home after all.
I provide tech support for machinery used in truss plants. On a recent visit to a plant near Austin, they were running lumber that was BLACK with mold, before it was even assembled into trusses. Entire units of lumber had mold on every board.
That cardboard sheathing. So wonderful.
Is he ignoring the obvious? I am still watching.
He mentions it. It is Illegal to use in a lot of states.
This is in Texas and the cardboard is legal to use here as a backer for finish product BUT even though it has structural in the name it is NOT structural in any way and certainly not fire shear wall constructions use.
I live in Michigan and was a framer for 14 years. We used cardboard sheathing ( thermo ply) on many homes. Completely junk. A rock could easily go through it. For most builders it's about profit. Celatex. A board made of glue and ground fined mulch is impossible to put out if caught on fire. We tried to put out a pile. We set it on fire and tried several times put water, snow, and smother it. It just kept catching fire. Now imagine if that was on a house that caught fire. Lol
It's always interesting to drive through a few years later and see the pattern failures.
Good channel. Keep it up. People need to know / see the "quality" of some houses.
We’re on the Mexico Building codes now !
Early in my life I was a telephone installer in central Florida, loved those new stucco houses since I never needed a drill to put a hole in the wall for the wire. Push my long screwdriver, twist a couple of times and straight through to the drywall, two more twists and it was ready. I had several of those long screwdrivers, even drilled tiny holes in the blades to hook the phone wire. Sometimes it was necessary to put in a ground rod when the underground service wasn't near the power ground. Since Florida is sand this normally wouldn't be a problem but in one fun instance the neighbor (old NY or Ohio retiree) was laughing as I carried that 10 foot ground rod thinking it was going to be fun watching me work. That was right up till I stabbed the rod in the ground and it kept going, all ten feet disappeared as it slipped out of my hand. Crap, I only had the one so made a trip to our ware house and got five more and a box of couplers. This time I put two together for a 20 footer and pushed 15 feet into the ground. Holding on I gently hammered the last five feet and it was still loose so I added another 10 food ground rod. With 28 feet in the ground it got tight so I had to work getting the last two feet down. The neighbor was no longer smiling, instead he was looking at that little crack on the back wall of his new house.
People talk crap about the strict building codes of some states but guess what? We don't build houses with cardboard anymore!
This is typically the quality in Texas from the production builders. The last time I was in Texas, 4 years ago, I saw a sign posted "Real Carpenters Wanted". The structural engineering on the plans was not followed on any home I walked in the rough in stage, yet they were installing siding. The interior of finished homes I walked were unbelievably bad in quality. Doors hung out of plumb and level, cabinets hung out of level, big bows in backsplash areas, slabs not flat and the list goes on and on. I saw one house where they miscut the carpet 1" away from the wall and left it. All of the jobsites looked like a bomb had gone off there and cleanup was an afterthought. I can tell you the quality is much better in the rest of the Country. These guys do not understand that they will make more money by doing it right the first time.
Thanks yall for watching!
Shocking. With the way everything has been pre engineered, including clear instructions. They still cannot get with the program.
The 90's were a mess also.
Curious to what happens to these issues in your final report? Does the contractor come back and repair them? How are they able to repair some things like the strong ties that are imbedded in the concreate slab?
That drywall that you saw on-site is going to be installed the next day, to cover over what he found. Standard practice in new construction
@@stevebabiak6997 lol what? So even if he found sufficiencies in the work it’ll just get left in place? That’s crazy…no wonder my dad always told me they don’t build them like that use to.
@@thangcacdi - the report won’t get to the builder for like a day, maybe two. The drywall sub is scheduled for the day after the inspection - games builders play.
Real estate inspectors don’t inspect for code, the rest is between the seller/ builder And the buyer. This buyer doesn’t take it somebody else will.
I love your videos.
Keep on fighting the good fight for good construction methods!
I was a framer for a large part of my life and I HATE bad framing.
You have inspired me to create a 3D model of a portal framed opening per IRC.
Maybe 3D pictures will help some of these wall tippers do things right.
Great video!
Cardboard houses sold for a premium markup 🙈
The builder more concerned about profits.
What brand of run-flat tyres do you like?
Well done! Great video!
Thermo Ply is just thicker cardboard. Cheap cheap cheap. How do they get away without using real plywood, zip or even OSB? No Shear strength?
that cardboard with fancy name should not be allowed. is nuts!
Feels like my kind of day. Great job catching those violations.
I would never buy new construction and especially in a subdivision where houses are only 10ft apart. Might as well be an apartment IMO.
It all starts with an approval of the building plans allowing the cheapest and least structurally sound building methodology. Then it is followed with the lowest bidder contractors, most of which can't even read the English plans, and who aren't paid even remotely enough to even consider incorporating PRIDE into anything they do! These houses are literally made of cards. Don't even get me started on looking out your bedroom window and getting personal with your new neighbors having fun in their bedroom. Privacy = luxury! Postage stamp lot with junk house, no privacy, no luxury is poor investment. These are built like depreciating assets. As PT Barnum said, there is a sucker born every minute.
Good job security for you with the build quality these days.
My dad owned his own company and held a class A contractors license
he had 50+ years experience in construction
Dad never worked or even bid track jobs because of the low quality of track homes even back in the 70s and 80s
Pop ran a tight site trusses weren't left in the dirt or drywall and the site was kept neat and picked up I watch a few channels and it's crazy to see how job sites are left a total mess as I watched this video I could just here my pops voice in my head if this was his job site it would of been in the fan
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Class A contractors license?????
Yeah get the vinyl stretcher
Out of the van also.
@@paulradice3534 and your reply means what?
www.cslb.ca.gov/about_us/library/licensing_classifications/a_-_general_engineering_contractor.aspx
those trusses laying out in the rain is not much of an issue as long as its not more than a couple months. until the finished roof is on the house they are going to get wet every time it rains anyways. those sheets of drywall laying in the mud is what happens when they dont want to pay for site delivery so its just dropped right behind the curb. the lost sheets wont really be much of an issue if the drywall guy is worth a dam they always order about 5-10 extra sheets for wastage
Installed in place and rained on won't change the shape and it will dry quickly, plus in place they will be inspired to get sheathing on it asap so the house is weathered in. On the ground for months? Lol. Every one will be damaged and crooked sitting directly on the ground absorbing moisture unsupported. You are clueless.
Looking like a normal production site....😢 big $ for 💩
At least you have your booties on. 😂😂don’t wanna get the place dirty.
All these foundation to structure anchors require precision from foundation forms and house framers. Clearly either they are lacking in skill, or under pressure to move too fast.
All of the above?
They tore the whole thing down and started over from bare earth - right? Right?
What a mess. If I ever Left a JOB site like that I'd get a phone call at 10pm and get told to go clean it up. WTAF>
some places the bolts on the garage door would pass because they have ramset nails also shot into the concrete not just the single bolt holding down
Ramsets at the garage door don't do anything for hold-down strength though, just shear I believe.
@@constructivainspections depends on the concrete really I have put facade on quite a few buildings and it was all held in by horizontal bars ramset into the concrete. its all about getting it after a few months of curing then you can get a good strong hold if the concrete is too green it just makes a crater with no holding power and if its been cured for years and years the nail might just glance off without even penetrating the concrete. though this is very area dependent too in hurricane areas they call for much more securement
What's with all the green studs, don't see that around here.
Why is that A/C drain vent alwasy short? Was short on my A/C too.
These houses are disgusting. Terrible layouts, cheap/trash materials, filthy jobsites, mistakes galore... Who ever buys these houses is getting absolutely screwed.
I'm curious how you document all of these issues. I assume you'll provide a detailed report. What software do you use?
Cardboard sheathing with staples?...ya that house will preform well in a seismic zone. Those garage end walls should be simpson strong wall units
Deja vu on this video. Think this is a re-upload. Understandable given the holidays, though.
What are the sales prices of these cardboard tinker toy houses?
Speaking of inspections, looks like you’re 8 months overdue for one!
Why is that green sprayed 3' up the framing?
It is a termite treatment and fungicide. Bora-Care with Mold Care is one such product. They are all primarily boric acid products, which is toxic to pests. The fungal treatment products typically are dyed green to show you where it had been applied. Often, the products that are only boric acid solutions do not have the dye, as it doesn't really matter if you spray it on other things (like intact wiring).
Bottom of windows are not supposed to be taped
What is the green on the bottom of all the framing?
Another one without a hurricane tie in sight.... Twister ever goes through there and the roof will be gone in a flash.
It’s all about speed in these tract homes. Quality is hard to find. You have to really look hard to find any.
We need more sticky tape 😂
that house has straps, "even though they look like sh1t". lol
After watching so many YouTub inspectors, I would love to know what experience is required to become a home inspector.
Ok now for his inspection. Where is your PPE ?.
First time watcher. I curious what the green material is on the studs and how it gets on there?
So when the sloping condensate eventually backups and floods the floor the 2x4’s will be protected 🤪
It is actually a type of termite treatment that is sprayed on. it has a green dye mixed in so you can see where it was applied.
@@christaylor1934 Do you know what the name of the product is?
@@ralphjessee2688
Copper Green is one brand. Lowes has it.
@@ralphjessee2688 One brand is Bora-Care (the "with Mold Care" version is tinted). There are a bunch of different boric acid treatment products, but it seems like they are all variations on a theme. Some of the treatments must only be applied to wood products (they would potentially damage plumbing/ wiring) and others are more forgiving if you are using it during a remodel where it might come in contact with other materials.
Vent 3' minimum from the OPERABLE portion of a window. --That window looks fixed, so the vent isn't near an opening--. None of those holdowns look right. Good thing there's no wind in Texas!
6:24 window sure looks like it can open.
I didn't see the upper sash. You're right. @@stevebabiak6997
Good eye
Nothing like being that close to ur neighbor!
Gotta love the cookie cutter houses with the 7’ tall garage doors! Can’t get shit in those garages
What a mess!!! You don't have a compound for materials?
If it wasn't for the Simpson truss/framing screws you showed, I was going to ask what decade this video was taken????
Thermoply and staples...Are you serious??? I thought they quit making Thermoply more than 20 years ago, I haven't even seen any of that here in northeast Florida in decades, and staples, we haven't used staples of any kind for any kind of framing since Hurricane Andrew in 1992. And who is the Brainiac that designed a brick ledge the same height as the slab?? Of course water is going to pond up and get in, even with the moist stop. And at the kitchen hood vent, I have never heard of drywall screw protection plates referred to as plate reinforcement. With all of the above in mind, what is the BIG importance about taping the straps at the garage doors????? Does that make them stronger, I don't think so. And I don't even know what to say about the dryer vent concern, the window may not be fixed, but people rarely open windows anymore, and if they do, what is a little dryer heat going to hurt. Glad I don't live in Austin. I'll stop now.
That indead is a reinforcement plate not a drywall screw guard. The double top plate of the wall was cut to make room for the hood vent, so the 2 plates suroundung the vent are adding strenght back to the top plate, and there is a specified fastener that goes in the plate in a specific way. Who cares what you think about taping the simpson straps, if its in the code or required buy the manufacturer you do the work. All these home are poorly thrown together for top dollar while cutting every corner to maximize profit instead of doing a quality job.
Fine Homebuilding did a story on the impact of Andrew in FL (as well as government and code agencies). There was a trend at the time to have more northeast style homes that were creeping into the area. That style has more overhang that acts as a parachute in the wind. They saw house after house (any style) with OSB sheathing completely gone, but with chunks of it left behind with a staple holding the chunk to the truss. Total loss. I would never fasten OSB sheathing with staples to roof or wall, but I would never construct a house with OSB period. CARDBOARD wall sheathing. LOL. Why not just construct the house with spit and toilet tissue?
Cheaply built tract homes.
So, you're the inspector?
Why are the builders failing to meet code everywhere?
@@bryandraughn9830 He's an independent inspector, not the city inspector signing off on the job.
That means every other home wasn't done right either!
You sound a lil bit like Nick Johnson….like you’re related or something, 🧐😂
Whodat?
The framers only read spanish.
Looks like we found the racist. Wasn’t that hard this time.
I'd take one of those houses for free. Then sell it the next day. JUNK
New homes in America for the “average” homeowner are JUNK!!!!
My first house was an 85 year old brick house, 2bdrm with 1 bath….lived there for 10 years and NEVER had any problems, just routine maintenance more or less. Made the huge mistake of having one of these cookie cutters built and 19 years later I’ve probably spent 40k in fixing things…..
friend of mine worked midnights so he could sit in a lawn chair all day and watch the people who built his house, he’s never had any problems, so I guess him babysitting a bunch of professional idiots paid off for him.
Anybody ever heard of a dumpster?
No zip sheathing? No thanks.
LOL! All crap Zip is OSB with a coating. No ACTUAL PLYWOOD, no thanks! Zip is overpriced JUNK!
When these houses are sold they will make the owners join a HMO and hound the onwers for bad houses
There is no pride and professionalism in the trades any more. Sad to see
Well, Texans get what they deserve. Contractors don't need a license in Texas. Any fool can slap a sticker on a pickup and voila, they're a 'contractor'. Frankly, tract home builders should all face massive class-actions as this grabage construction is everywhere. Using glorified cardboard with staples as 'sheathing' is insane. The lack of holddowns at the garage is boggling.
No license? That true? Wow.
glad you asked.... no no no
What kind of incompetent amateurs built this house ? ? Holy crap ! ! !
It all starts with an approval of the building plans allowing the cheapest and least structurally sound building methodology. Then it is followed with the lowest bidder contractors, most of which can't even read the English plans, and who aren't paid even remotely enough to even consider incorporating PRIDE into anything they do! These houses are literally made of cards. Don't even get me started on looking out your bedroom window and getting personal with your new neighbors having fun in their bedroom. Privacy = luxury! Postage stamp lot with junk house, no privacy, no luxury is poor investment. These are built like depreciating assets. As PT Barnum said, there is a sucker born every minute.
They build cheap flimsy houses in the US, go to places like Hungary and Romania in Google street view, they build houses WAY different!
I saw one under construction in Gyomore Hungary in Google street view, they use large kiln fired hollow red terracotta blocks for all the walls, the roofs are not solidified gasoline asphalt like here- they put up kiln fired red terracotta roof tiles, they stucco the exterior. The walls appear to be about 12 to 14" thick, the terracotta blocks resemble concrete blocks but larger and stronger, and since they are vitrified in a kiln around 2,000 degrees F, they are highly fire proof- more than concrete blocks.
I don't know how they do the interior, but I assume they add insulation board inside, maybe in the terracotta block cavities as well, and wood walls.
They are SOLID, strong houses and highly fire and wind resistant.
We USED to build commercial buildings with these red blocks, faced with hard brick outside, inside narrower blocks were used for partition walls, and inside floors forming arches between steel I beams- they are the reason why 90 West street in NYC built around 1915, it is 23 stories, it was severely damaged by the WTC collapse and fires raged inside for a long time burning office stuff, yet the terracotta blocks in the floors and partition walls stopped structural damage and limited the fires, the building was subsequently renovated and the damaged gothic exterior terracotta and brick were restored.
We stopped using these blocks and went with flimsy, cheap sheetrock for partition walls, and what I like to call "Oriental strand board" for the walls, covered outside with plastic siding all waiting for one spark to ignite it all in a huge conflagration that because the houses are like 10 feet apart- spread from one to the next with ease.
I saw a video where a row of about 8 or so houses were under construction, a fire started on the deck I think by someone welding or a plumber with a torch, and in minutes the whole house was a roaring furnace and it spread to all the others on both sides of it.
watching your videos i am glad i will never live in texas-- their construction is garbage
Arrogant as ever
Do they sell these pos or give them away, that whole site is a joke
All those 3rd world hacks taking over
You're likely lazy
Only fools buy track housing. And, as a bonus, they usually come with HOA's.
These houses are hideous, it's got to be really soul-zapping to do this everyday and see the same crap being pumped out. It's kind of crazy though because building house is not that difficult, relatively speaking, it's a basic series of steps that you just follow each and every time. I guess if you're starting with the wrong steps then you just follow those each and every time. I have a house from the '50s, and I have the house from the '90s, I'm going to hang on to those for a while. No way I would build anything new unless I was building it myself, or it was a custom builder who only builds a handful a year. These perspective homeowners have to educate themselves on how a house is built and the process by which issues are taken care of. It falls on them as much as it falls on the builder. Be smart people this is a big investment, start acting like it.
Those who can t do,inspect.
A cardboard house. Only in America.
Most likely non-English speaking unskilled labor doing a lot of this work. I pity the people that buy these junkers. In just a few years they are going to be having all sorts of problems.
1/8in "structural" sheathing 🤮
Just cheap trac homes built with cheap materials, and poor craftsman with no care for there work.
How in the world does this junk pass inspection? 😵
Them things that look like house's , are a pile of popsicle sticks 😬 Good god this is what American greed has made are trades into . Well maybe not technically trades people or craftsman , more like drunk kids playing with cardboard and hotglue😂
What an F-ing mess
Any inspector in foam crocks should not be on a job site
I agree. That's why I only wear Jimmy Choo's high heel shoes, with blue shoe covers of course.
Card board sheathing 🤦♂️… = cheap builder and bet the house will be overpriced.
This guy doesnt know craps
Bunch of junk !
Total shit homes today are a built with no pride and bad buiding materials
Spec homes are the worst! And I guarantee you all these homes are just spec homes…