New Construction DECK is HILARIOUSLY BAD!!

The should have at least taken the 6 inches they cut from the beam and duct taped it to the other side to support that end span.

Why did my deck collapse? Well you see, you allowed three birds to land on it at the same time. That voids your warranty

I lost it at the loadbearing window underneath😂

Amazing how something like home building isn't perfected yet, and it actually gets worse as contractors try to get cheaper and work ethics are non-existent.

If this deck is seriously butchered by contractors I can’t imagine the rest of the house.

Imagine the weight of a group of people and a grill on that deck being supported by 6 screws.

As a recently retired 50+ year precision machinist/toolmaker, let me just say what a pleasure it is to see fine quality craftsmanship and pride in ones work!

I volunteered several weeks in the harshest weather to build houses. The nightmares I seen with people pretending to know what they were doing and parts of building process not working because someone did not know how to cut wood, measure wood or assemble structures was absolutely astonishing. After hearing what they were offering to pay, I told them that if they were that hard up that they can keep their money. A couple weeks later they lost the contract and everyone was sent home without pay for Christmas. I certainly can relate how new homes are a nightmare.

I build custom decks for a living and this hurts my soul.

Homeowners are building better decks than actual “contractors”..

You said : "..shame on this builder for not owning up to it and fixing it." People who do work like that have NO shame. They just want your money

In the county I live in even decks have to be inspected. A neighbor built a three level deck that wrapped around two sides of his house. The building inspector noticed it when he was inspecting a new house on the same street. Because of the soil conditions the footers needed to be 3’x3’x8”. The home owner put it on 10”x 1’ sono tubes. The inspector made him tear it down. The guy was a contractor. The kind that got down payments from customers for work but never did the work. That was 15 years ago. He went to jail, and no more decks were ever added to that house.

Just because someone does something for a living it doesn't mean that they're good at it.

I framed and built decks and screened them in for years but I'm pretty sure almost anyone can say this is an absolute mess. You got people out there that really need jobs, I'm one of them. Whoever did this needs to go try their hand at fast food or something.

Much appreciated & thanks for showing this, as I learned a lot and how not to get screwed by slackers! Hope you were able to get these things fixed without more costs to you.

As a contractor all I got to say you get what you pay for going with the lowest estimate nets these kind of results seen it a thousand times .and i had to fix some contractors work after they didnt go with my bid and the smile on my face .

Im going to show this video to my clients when they tell me the "other guy can do it cheaper"

Well, it only needs six lag screws in the ledger since that's a load bearing window that it's sitting on. But seriously, as a contractor of over thirty years (who actually takes pride in his work), this is horrific! It wasn't mentioned, but there were no hurricane anchors attaching the joists to the beam either. It's painful to see what some guys will throw together. Yikes!

Carpentry for 18 years and I've never seen anything that bad. That's nuts

I once worked maintenance for a company that hired out a "carpenter" to rough in an addition over the weekend. It was a small room, about 17 X 20, and when we got there Monday morning we found it was 7 inches out of square. We had to disassembled the entire framing package and move it all over to make it square. Then, of course, everything was no longer square in the rafters and wall studs, so you can imagine all the extra work we had to do to fix the "carpenter's" mistakes. We would've saved money and time if the company would've just let us do the construction, instead of farming it out. Nothing like clueless management to screw things up.