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Originally Posted by Rodney
I'll tell you how bad independent homebuilders are out in my area:
One of the few goofs that our GCs caught by themselves was that when the central heating unit was installed, there wasn't room to build a structure above it to hold the filter -- there's a name for it, which I've forgotten. Ooops.
Well eventually, we ended up with a nonstandard solution -- the filter's on the uptake vent on the second floor that the heater draws its air from. When the home inspector we paid for came through, he approved the fix -- and told us that indeed, in many new homes built by local contractors, central heating systems were being installed without housings for a filter. "They run five years, then burn out," he told us.
Geez.
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You got off lucky. There's very little that you could tell me about how shoddily some homes are built that would surprise me. The converse is also true - some people will file suit for the stupidest thing. There's a condo association in Vegas that filed suit because the tops of the door jams weren't painted and the fences that only had 2 coats of stain instead of 3. The best part is that the contractor was never notified of any of these issues with any units. It cost them - or more accurately their insurance company - about $50,000 in lawyer fees to get out of the claim.
It's crazy everywhere on the West Coast when it comes to construction.