Dark side of the housing boom: Shoddy construction
This article provides a good background on the nature of construction defects in new home construction and is directed at consumers.
At the peak of the recent housing boom, home buyers scooped up a million newly built homes every year while homeowners poured more than $200 billion into renovations. But now stories of shifting soil, leaky roofs, damaged stucco and other construction defects abound.
Though many builders have worked to improve the quality of their houses over the past decade, says Alan Mooney, president of Criterium Engineers, a national engineering firm, the building frenzy also opened the door for unskilled labor, unscrupulous contractors and untested products.
“When everyone is out there building as fast as they can, that does result in more defects,” he says.
23 June 2007 | Construction, Construction Defect, Construction and Law, Inspections, Litigation | Comments
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