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Originally Posted by Chellybean
there are so many things wrong with your post i don't know where to begin.
I have also been a builder in the north for 36 years and they do have a lot of employee rotating and some builders have been there awhile.
Concrete needs 28 days to Cure and the houses are built in 60 to 70 days so you do the math. for the speed they build for production houses they do ok, don't get me wrong i am very pro Morse and what he does for the economy here in Central florida, they feed a lot of families.
The reason why they stay to the production houses and not custom homes here, is less chance for errors and it becomes repetitious.
a lot of the help knows their job once there told and they do it over and over again, but a lot of them don't have the ability to read plans.
I will stop here or this post will be a mile long. To the average eye the homes are ok, to a trained eye there is a lot of hidden errors due to them moving too fast. One thing to point out, look above eye level, top of tiles on roman showers are rarely chalked (mildew can build behind tile) , top of ledges on archways are not textured or painted, the Molding on base molding have way to much chalking and miter joints are poor etc.... I HAVE TO STOP have a nice day  |
I have seen enough newly built homes in the northeast as well as checking out quite a few other retirement communities before moving here. All I can tell you is that you get a very well built house for the price compared to what I have seen... never mind the environment and lifestyle.
Sure you can have better building techniques, materials, higher quality products, processes, etc. but its a value proposition - a cadillac with its corresponding price tag.
Ours was one of the last custom designer homes built and I checked the base molding, top of roman shower and miter joints, top of ledges as you mentioned and it was all done correctly. I'm not saying everything is perfect and that mistakes are not made but you have a year for the builder to fix the problems you find and they are responsive.