Jon
3/5
I bought our house in 2018. The process was pretty good to get the house, and they repaired several things under warranty the first year. Overall the house is nice but I have had several problems that just make you scratch your head.
Here are the problems I have had:
The little tree out front never has really grown. I was threatened by HOA to have it removed and replaced and about that time it started budding a little bit, however has always struggled.
I had a sink hole in my front yard when we moved here. I talked with the builder and he said he would send some guys out to cut the grass out and fill in the hole and resod it. He told me to hold off until the end of the first year and put that on my punch list of items to fix. At the end of the first year, that was part of the repairs I requested. When they "fixed" it, they just filled it in with sand. Had I known that's what they were gonna do, I would have done that myself when I first moved here.
After about a week of living here, my son was running up the stairs and cut his toe on the nails the carpet is nailed into. The carpet is super cheap quality and all of the thresholds and stairs have the nails sticking through. Had them come out and try to get it to not do that, but that is a losing battle. The only real fix is to get better quality carpet.
Upstairs bathroom toilet sewage leaked into my walk in closet downstairs. Repaired under warranty, however the people that repaired it said the wax ring was not done right and since the toilet was sealed it was just messing up inside cavity of the toilet.
My dishwasher started messing up (not a big deal was a cheap one) so I went to replace it. I noticed the original wiring was not done right under the sink. I had to redo the wiring for my new dishwasher.
I installed a bidet toilet in my master bathroom. I installed a GFI behind the toilet and I tied it into the master bedroom plug. When we turned on the bidet it made my lights flicker. I noticed when they installed the wiring into the master bedroom they put all the lights and all the plugs on the same circuit instead of two different circuits. Just not a good design in my opinion.
This week Feb 2024, we had another sewage backup and this time it was my master bedroom bathroom. When I went to pull the toilet it was sealed all the way around the bottom. When I pulled the toilet up, you can see that the wax ring never was seated properly. This is disgusting, but there was about an inch layer of poop in the cavity of the toilet. Every time you would flush it, the toilet would flood inside of the cavity of the toilet and go down the drain. Eventually the poop backup pushed water under the tile and into my bedroom. You can tell this has been an issue for a long time, but it just now has gotten to where it was draining into the bedroom. I cut my wall out where poop water went and I'm going to replace the carpet in my bedroom. Fortunately, though I have not had any foundation issues so far. The windows are a little meh, and upstairs insulation is not that great.
I love the neighborhood though and even with the issues I have had in this house, I have heard nightmares about other builders in the area and the issues I have had although troublesome are not really big ones in the grand scheme of things.
