HOW IS THIS EVEN LEGAL?!?!
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Published 2019-03-28
Here's why:
1) I try to treat people as I would like to be treated, and I would not want someone airing my dirty laundry to the world. However, I do think I would want to know this information if I were buying a knew home and knew nothing about the building industry. In an attempt to satisfy both concerns, I have taken great care to make sure that the identity and location of the builder remained anonymous. This isn't a personal attack on any single person or company. I am simply giving my PERSONAL opinion on why I would not invest my money in a house like this.
2) I think that homeowners should know what is going on INSIDE the walls of the biggest investment of their lives. While I state in the video that the home is probably engineered and built to meet all local codes (I am not a structural engineer or building inspector), to me, the building details that a buyer can't see in a tour of the show home matter MORE than what you can see. I can easily upgrade lighting, flooring, and cabinetry as budget permits, but if I am upgrading a poorly built structure, am I making a wise financial decision for the future? Is it a good idea to invest all that material and capital into a building that will wind up in the landfill in 50 years?
Yes, the low end of the market is a tough place to compete. However, it is possible to build a more comfortable, durable, efficient house for very little additional cost. It would cost less than $2,500 to sheath this house in OSB and dramatically improve its structural rigidity, comfort and efficiency. If your a home buyer spending $250K, a 1% increase makes total sense. However, for a tract home builder building 1000 homes a year, that same $2,500 increase represents $2,500,000 in lost profit. But that's another story for another video.
Y'all stay safe out there.
-Jordan
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All Comments (21)
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Houses are becoming like everything else in America. Not meant to last.
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We need more videos like this to educate the public on what's really going on behind the walls. I built my own homes all my life because these corporate developers are the biggest cheap crooks out there, and I just plain like building quality houses. They take an expensive piece of real estate and build Trash on it. It's like this everywhere where there is a developer involved.Time and time again I witness shoddy workmanship that gets passed just because the inspector says "we only inspect to make sure the building is safe and to code" Most buyers who don't know any better only looks at cosmetics and not what's holding it together. Thanks Jordan for this video. Please keep it up. These greedy developers need to be exposed! Want to hear something ironic? The last quality home I built, the inspector told me that this was one of the best built homes he's ever seen but I am afraid that since you built your own home, it does not quality for the Ontario New Home Owners Insurance Program". But the crap like Jordan showed you in this video does. The construction industry is going nowhere fast!
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Been a interior trim carpenter for 25 years. Houses have went to hell in a hand basket. No way i would buy a new home.
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This is part of the reason I quit my last job with a home builder. I was a complete novice. But I was not comfortable with some of the shortcuts that we were taking. I’ve seen stuff like this before. The sloppy job site outside is telling as well.
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I've been building since 2002, quality is about the same. The difference is back then you got a crappy house for a cheap price. Now they are selling the crappy houses for about the same price as an expensive home so builders are more likely to build a crappy home.
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In my 30 years in the business I've never before seen a house with no sheer wall installed anywhere. Even Hardi will tell you their siding is not approved for sheer wall! What a bunch of hacks!
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My husband showed me a brand new house today that had this product on it. I had no idea. It was raining and I touched it and it was swollen with moisture. I had no idea you could even do this. The houses were beautiful but they will never last. I got home and looked it up to find your video. You are absolutely spot on about this.
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In my former spec home Community neighborhood. One of the housing inspectors visited a job site leaned up on the outside of the house expecting sheathing and went right through like the Kool-Aid Man because it was foam board against the stud walls eventually vinyl siding over that. Until I met that house I didn't know houses could be built with anything other than wood sheathing .
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that is terrifying. here in the midwest, I could see a straight line wind coming through and taking out half that neighborhood
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Spackle, caulk and paint,,,,, make you what you aint. I have been in the construction industry for 41 years, just retired. I understand lots of folks not liking building codes, but they are there to protect the unknowing and clueless. Inspections, specifications and liscensing of of contractors will build a better product. Quality does not cost, quality pays.
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That wrap is not designed to be water tight. It is classified as vapour-permeable-membrane, and here in Australia we use it instead of a waterproof membrane for a reason. It allows the building to dry out from the inside out. I saw a comment above about black mould being in the walls within a few years. Nine times out of ten mould will grow when moisture is trapped and has no where to go. But where is the biggest threat from moisture ingress into walls? It’s from the humans living inside. The moisture comes form all the cooking showering and most of all breathing, that we humans love to do all day long. This warm and humid air wants to get outside just as much as the cold air wants to get inside. This produces condensation on the colder outer layer of the wall system, in this case the Hardie siding. Having a waterproof layer will only cause this condensate to remain in the walls and grow mould.
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My farmhouse was built in the 1890's and has dimensional lumber, 1" tongue and groove exterior and interior sheeting. Also, cedar exterior siding. Plaster and lathe interior walls. Still as solid as the day it was built.
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Thanks for holding your phone in landscape mode it makes a huge difference.
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I'm a siding contractor and I see this all the time on houses that need new siding , we sheet it after removing the old siding
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We have not had any problems with our Hardiplank siding in the 20 years we have owned our home, BUT then again it was installed over normal sheathing. Thank you for pointing out these shortcuts that the average homeowner would not even notice.
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Several years ago I saw a custom home built like that in SE Wisconsin, just 12 miles North of the tornado belt. That home was a show home, had a full basketball court in the basement, some weird textured drywall finishes, and they were extremely proud of what they had built. I thought that it was a huge joke.
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SOLD as is, where is! Engineered to be recycled by a Tornado. Builder takes the money and RUNNNNNNN
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The landscape around those houses during the building process, tells everything you need to know about the quality of the houses being built.
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Fancy, expensive mobile homes at this point🤦🏽♀️
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As a master electrician , the box for the switch i seen is needing to have at least 6 inches of free conductor of wire out of the box .
