exactly.... :2 cents: people don't realize the contractor basically coordinates all the subs. If he is building multiple houses at one time he can't be in every place at the same time, watching what every single person is doing, he can't detect every single little flaw, it's not possible.

Hell it could have just been 1 guy on the roofing crew that was an idiot and put the flashing on "almost" right, but not good enough. If the rest of your house is fine then the contractor is likely pretty good. If you notice a problem with the electrical, plumbing, shitty trim work, wood floors separating, etc etc etc then yeah its the contractor, he sucks and not only hires shotty people across the board but he either doesn't care or is too incompetent to notice it. But just a flashing problem, it really could have been 1 guy that the other roofers didn't catch his error and everything else was fine. Not the answer you want to hear but don't crucify the contractor without understanding the situation. It's like having 1 rouge affiliate spam you and you want to kill the owner of the company the rouge affiliate is advertising while the owner didn't even know it happened.

The contractor may have recourse to go back after the roofing crew depending on the circumstances, or fire them now if they are still working for him. He doesn't know about problems like this till they are brought to his attention, unfortunately for you it took 2 years for the problem to present itself. Obviously the inspectors didn't catch it and the house passed permits, so it wasn't an obvious gross problem.

The contractor might also be broke, a lot of them have gone bankrupt over the last couple years.

Talk to your neighbors with the same problems and as a group go talk to the contractor, see if he wants to work it out or not.

maybe it varies from state to state, pretty sure here they only have a year or two to come back with problems. In the 20 or so houses we've built in the past I can honestly say I've never had one person come back with a problem so i don't know. But I am pretty sure it's not a long period of time.

you could put a little of that internet porn aside and research ( bet it would take 10 minutes ) on how the flashing should be installed and then put a little M-A-N into it and do it your damn self, maybe learn a little something, maybe impress the wife, maybe charge a small fee and do the neighbors....meah

no offense, just saying...nudder idea, get er don!

I'm sure it's different in every state.

Latent defects, which are not obvious or apparent by reasonable inspection, must be sued upon within 10 years of substantial completion of the project. That is the outside Statute of Limitations, after which contractors can relax. That deadline is extended, however, if the contractor is guilty of ?willful misconduct or fraudulent concealment? of defective construction, at which point the four-years-from-discovery-of-the-defect rule applies.

10 years

Last month, the Court of Appeal ruled on a construction defect case where the home was completed and a notice of completion filed in 1995. For years afterward, the contractor/seller was fixing defects but never really fixed them and finally nine years later told the buyer he would not fix anything else including some serious construction defects.

http://www.sierrasun.com/article/201...ntProfile=1051

:2 cents::2 cents:

You are confusing warranty with statues of limitations. A warranty covers things for a year, if something breaks in that year you have 10 years to sue. You do not have 10 years to find defects, you have one/two or whatever the contract says.

Throw a BBQ ang get him wasted. Then have him make out with a ugly CD or two and take pix. BAM! Free home remodeling for life.

I'll search it later, I know the contractor is liable for 10 years on a new home. Again, every state is different.

take them in private and make some cbt movies using them as models:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1or glaugh:1orglaugh

If you had a twitter account with a million followers, you could get their attention that way. lol

They would kiss your ass to stop talking about them.

you can't fuck over your builder now. This thread is evidence that will be held against you for anything that happens to them.

dont do it

so why is it his fault if a leak happenned after 2 years? sounds like regular maintainance

On a newly built home? What are you smoking?

Had the work completed this morning ... thanks for all the great comments ...

I'll plan my revenge accordingly


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so you learned nothing from the people who replied intelligently then :Oh crap

hahahaha