I would be absolutely mortified if this was my house under construction. You'll never get away from these workmanship problems... For every 1 you see 2 were unseen... This is one of the most poorly framed houses I've ever seen.

The municipality inspector needs to put a stop work order on this immediately until all of these problems are resolved! That is absolutely some of the most horrendous workmanship I have ever seen...

I am so sad about the state of construction. What's wrong with people? Does nobody have an ounce of pride? You are a strong man, having to look at those abominations on a daily basis.

That was a very difficult watch.

That isn't a building site, it's a crime scene.

This is why I do my own construction work I've seen so much of this type of work , get in and get out thinking .

This speaks volumes about the people that contractors are hiring to do the work.

Damn, this construction is absolutely shameful. Honestly would want a stop work order for all of the other houses in the development, I bet they are all garbage.

After scrolling down and reading so many comments about workmanship, I completely agree. In California, the loss of a strong carpenter's union has created the same situation. Not because I think unions are the be all, but the loss of a PROPPER apprenticeship training program. Most "tradesmen" here are shade tree types. Enough knowledge to be sloppy and substandard. Fifty years ago, most of these issues would have been self policed simply from a position of pride in clean work.

A dozen years ago or so, a habitat for humanity house was built a block away from me. I remember the first winter, the fascia board around the entire house came loose during a windy night. The wind gusts were 35-40 mph that night. Your video reminds me of that build. Sad to see construction like this. Keep the videos coming.

A friend of mine was interested in moving into a new neighborhood that was at the beginning of it's development. We went and looked at the houses that were being built and the homes were atrocious. Many of the same issues as the house in this video. This house will have rot in the walls in less than 10 years. The OSB will be the first to rot. Where I live the builders put in the contract for the house that you cannot sue the builder for any reason. It has to go to arbitration. I helped my friend build his house it was cheaper than those other pieces of junk and it is a much better house.........

I’m amazed that a builder could leave this mess behind themselves

Framer for 23 years, inspectors and builders let this type of stuff go all the time if the are doing it because they get it done FAST. If you live in California or Arizona your home most likely has defects like the one in this video that are part of your home because the “piece framers” are paid to get done as fast as possible. Inspectors are either in the builders pocket or simply don’t care. Glad to see someone calling out the hackery.

I could learn a lot from you. Currently in school learning how to build houses... Even to my novice eye this is atrocious. Thank God I have a great instructor. I look forward to the rest of your videos!

I am appalled by the poor construction! It happens here in NY a lot as well. Good for the homeowners as they were astute enough to retain their own inspector, perhaps if more homeowners did that these poor contractors would be held more accountable. Being a professional engineer I cannot believe that such poor and dangerous construction occurs in residential construction. However, one question why were not some of these rather oblivious errors caught by the local building inspector?

Tear it down start over My house was built in 2003. I really wish an inspector would have seen and had the balls to catch at least some of the shortcuts in construction. It’s costing me tens of thousands of dollars to redo the lack of proper weatherproofing and subsequent discovery of shoddy structural framing and missing insulation.

You must be the most hated man on the construction site, but I'm glad you do what you do. mainly because EVERYTHING I've seen looks like it was done very poorly, quickly and without any concern whatsoever. It's not that the house will fall down, but these things will cause sheetrock to crack, water to enter, heat loss, windows to fail, problems down the road that shouldn't happen, and on and on... People buy these houses after the fact, and once the sheetrock is up they can't see what you see. Wherever you are inspecting houses, it seems that they bang them out very fast and couldn't care less about quality, it's all about building the next one and making money. They will come back after your inspection, blast in more nails, add a 2x4, add a brace and you'll get stuck passing it because technically it passes. I would never make a dime as a builder, I just finished an addition on my shop and if I saw the slightest issue, I did it over, or I wouldn't sleep well knowing that I could have done better, I took pride in my building. The builders homes you're inspecting have a terrible crew, it seems as if they don't know how to do things correctly and or carefully...

it’s like an educational build for the licensing bureau on exactly what not to do

Very thorough inspection. Thanks for sharing. I must say that I've been around the residential framing scene for over a few decades now and I have never seen such terrible craftsmanship. Whether it is a lack of pride, poor training or complete disregard, I certainly hope these framers stay out of my state. WOW.

These builders get away with this poor construction work because they pay coffers to the local municipalities. Corporate greed at its finest.

This is great information that you are supplying the homes owner being private or a commercial builder. I found in Louisiana when you find mistakes that require rework the contractors just walk off the job. State license enforcement says it's a civil issue. You really need to have an inspection as they build to correct all the mistakes. I found the amount of mistakes increase with contractors that are actually labor brokers. Keep documenting mistakes no matter how small.

I’d like to know what the contractor has to say about all of this.

My third grade teacher told me once, haste makes waste. I never forgot her words that described the D I got on a homework assignment until later in life. But I’d never forgotten and remind myself of her words throughout my adult life. Especially when building something or repairing something

My shed is built better than this house. I think the simple reality of construction in the US is that we built for size and not quality, as the size is impressive and nets the builder the most profit. The downside is that the homes are built like a TV sitcom set.

I absolutely love this channel as a homeowner planning to build an ADU in the future. Please keep posting videos. This is the future of construction accountability.

New subscriber. I appreciate your videos. I’m learning things as just a DIY’er at home that I’ve never thought about. Fortunately I did not build our home haha

Seems a lot of builders like sitterle, KB, Lennar etc are paying workers less and quality is being cut

I noticed in the back ground I think, a house wrapped in zipwall. Those builders obviously are using high quality material. I'd be interested to know how they built

shouldn't most of this been caught by the city/county building inspector? who's orange paint and notes are those?

No home inspector wants to kill a deal, they won’t be in the business long, but man some of these homes, for the prices people are paying, someone should be telling them to just eat their earnest money and walk away, the craftsmanship isn’t worth it.

Great educational content, thank you.

This is a perfect example of you get what you pay for. This is the product you can expect most of the time. If you want attention to detail your going to pay for it.

I hope you charge a lot of money for what you do! You are an incredible wealth of knowledge.

That’s real shoddy work.

(Takes out red "CONDEMNED" stickers; slaps them all over the building exterior).

And with such an investment, one would think they would make sure it gets done correctly. Laziness and cutting corners, sad. And if you didn’t know it wouldn’t of been caught and fixed. Again, sad and extremely frustrating.

Holy crap. I’m hiring this man- if I ever build a house

Overall, it's still a very nice looking house. That's why there are inspectors...wish I had a house. Enjoyed the show, good inspector.

Wow... i'm just shocked and how many significant failures are present in this one. Unbelievable.

Subscribed! Great video.

Just a reminder that if you are having a house built you should always go the house as they are building it to do your own inspection. Take plenty of pictures as evidence if there is a problem down the road.

30 years ago we had our house built>>basic ranch on a basement. I checked the job site EVERY day and found a few errors to be fixed. I didn't catch it all I'm sure. Still living with some poor work by the subs. I did cuss them out once. We were to finish the pine woodwork so it could be installed. They kept making a mess in the garage where we were set up. I called them and ripped them a new one and said that if they wanted the woodwork on time, then stay the hell out of the garage. The bricklayer doing the fireplace surround got dirty hand prints on the plaster wall making it necessary for us to paint the walls earlier than we wanted to. The builder had about 30 years in business and were actually pretty good. You almost have to be there every day, ALL day, watching and YOU have to know what you are looking at.

I didnt know I could get my own inspector during construction on a production build (not custom home)... My builder just said if it passes city inspection then that's all good... I did have a list of items I found since I did work in home building and other construction industry and so was able to point out and get multiple BIG items fixed that would have been costly a few years down the road..... but if this is allowed, then next production home i build and move into, i'll get inspections during it... but my next build is going to be a custom build and a custom home... But we did have one issue that we faught and they didnt budge because city passed inspection and its on the plans this way... one bedroom, the door is in a hallway and about 8 feet of hallways is part of the bedroom... and the lightswitch to that room is about 10 feet away from the door enterence... in the dark, ITS PITCH BLACK and I trip and everything to find the light switch... I've since installed a Zwave switch as my home is 100% automated, in a old work box with an outlet below it to power it, and so there is a switch at the door now and it tells my Home Assistnt to turn on the switch thats further int he room...

I’d like to believe that it’s not intentional sabotage or trying to create a product, but a lack of knowledge or understanding why things are required to be done in a specific way

watching this is extremely painful especially after watching matt risinger's channel, excellent craftsmanship is show cased there. all builders should be required to watch it.

My house was built in 1990. I used to want a new house. Now I don't. I'll just retrofit more insulation and air sealing.

Are you being hired after construction starts, or before? How would the builder react if when the negotiations for the build of the house the buyer said that they were going to hire an outside inspector to inspect the house while it was being built? If that was done, how many times would you come and inspect the building during construction? What was the response from the builder on the long list of problems with this house? Were any of the things you pointed out going to require that portion of the build to be removed and rebuilt? Were the problems you pointed out code violations or just not good building practices? After watching this video it's obvious that either the builder didn't care about quality, or they didn't have anyone at the site managing the build.

It's amazing how laziness is able to pass. I've been in construction 30yrs and it used to be different. And get mad if you want but when thr influx of workers from Mexico started flooding construction and under cutting everyone while slapping stuff up happened craftsmanship went away. People would pay for Quality and hold the contractor to it. Not today who's cheapest and fastest no matter Quality

And this is not even Doctor Horton or Lenar

Not shocked by this but enjoy your video walk thrus. It isn’t just new construction I’ve got a 50 year old garage that has all sorts of mind boggling cut corners I’ve had to repair.

The sad thing is, I have never seen a home builder do the work that is expected and is getting paid to do.

Is anyone else impressed with the clouds that are shown in this video?

Please please show us the ring on the index finger more. I just love it. It just is so satisfying looking at that ring on the index finger. I don’t know why but I just like to see that ring on the index finger. Maybe you could do just a whole video, maybe 2 hours long, on the ring on the index finger.

It looks like they should have gotten you to inspect before they added any structure above their initial framing. It would have been a lot easier to fix these issues at that point rather than the stage it's at now.

Hey Homeowner... Glad you can afford this home, But can you afford all the repairs it will need? This is such shoddy workmanship.

Not every section of a garage wall is a continuously sheathed portal frame. Usually it's the shortest wall adjacent to a large opening. There's a formula. The wall between the 2 openings is probably wide enough to be a braced wall panel in itself and not need a CS-P.F., (apparent also in the header termination at king stud, not ran through to other opening), therefore only requiring standard nailing patterns and plywood joints (they can be anywhere) The 1st section you looked at is definitely wrong though. Cs-pf should have nails 3"o.c. in all members, including 3" grid into portal framed header itself. Straps at header connection and at bottom plate. Plywood joints must be in center 24" of wall assembly. I know because I failed an inspection years back in a new city we had just begun to work in. I had to reframe a garage wall. I learned everything I could about portal framing and braced wall panels. Cheers

One thing that really gets the point across with bad builders is to show up, without anything other than hand tools, or if you are extra pissed off, no tools. Tear the place to the ground, throw it all into the dumpster and then start over. Take your time (hopefully not the jail as most wanker contractors will run scared) but take the time and read, codes, etc. build a nice house and be happy!

At 10 43 the beam is cut way to short and a chunk is spliced in lookis like 1 inch of beam is supported on 1 2x4

It is not about quality. It is about production. I have lived in a pretty expensive tract home for 20 years. I am still finding places where the builder took short cuts.

So what happens after this? A lot of these repairs look to be incredibly invasive, especially at the stage it's at. Do you create a punch list for the buyer to present to the builder and then reinspect?

The problem with the internet is telling the difference between the anecdotal and the aggregate. This house exists and it is horrific. But what percentage of new houses are built to this "standard"? Is it .1%, 5% or 80%? I have no idea and would like to hear this inspectors experience.

What are the flashing boots called at 7:03 for the wall penetrations? I want to order some for our new construction house we are building. Thanks for the great content

My bf damn near threw the phone when I showed him this🤣🤣 he used to work construction and though he didn't stay in that field, he said it's always easy to see shoddy work.

"A little bit of trouble" with the sheathing nailing? That's got to be the understatement of the year -- and we aren't even through February yet. That's one advantage of the old days of hand nailing -- even an idiot couldn't have missed those while hammering in the nails from the outside -- nail guns make it so easy to not notice them (or at least claim they weren't noticed). On HfH builds I always try to make make a pass through just after wall sheathing is up to look for shiners and I fix every one I find (which, admittedly, is overkill when it's just one shiner in the field). This channel (and some others) make me want to have a custom built home - just so I can watch like a hawk showing up at the end of work every day to inspect (and keep an inspector "on call" to resolve "You don't know what you're talking about" issues with the contractor). Hopefully, of course, the contractor takes care of this and I can slack off a bit. These problems are SO much easier to catch and fix properly as

If it was me I'd use screws on OSB around the breaker box cus if u shoot a nail through it it's done.. at least with screws ull feel it hit metal and can back it out before its ruined

I am amazed at the amount of framing issues in this video. Does your state/county not require framing inspection well before HVAC/plumbing gets started?

Imagine these houses (or other buildings) without regulations, building codes, inspectors, and enforcement. Now, if only there were consequences.

Good lord, the more I watch this type of KZfaq video the less likely I am to every buy a new construction house!! Awful! Thanks for the video!

They didn't want the 2/4 to split so they nail to side of it

That masonry black waterproofing should go up the sheathing, not under the wall framing.

10:15, did you notice the air gaps between the load bearing studs. these should be nailed together, right? That was present in other bearing points in the house. Additionally the upstairs one is not plumb.

It’s all about getting it done as fast as possible. Most GC’s and Builders just care about getting it done fast and cheap. Don’t care about quality of work.

The problem is the inspector isn't doing his job or doesn't have a clue as to what he is looking for or at. It should fall back on them as well as each one of the sub contractors who didn't do their job right.

Problem is, most inspectors ignore this stuff

How go you fix some of those without tearing the place down and starting over?

All I can say is WOW! Must be a big brand name vendor trying yo cut corners.

I genuinely can't understand how builders can be okay putting their name on products this bad. I realize these are cheap-ish homes, but the majority of the issues we see aren't a cost saving thing. They're just an awful workmanship thing. Installing things wrong, doing a terrible job measuring/cutting, etc. some of the builders out there these days make JR Horton look like Matt risinger.

Light a match and start over with a new crew.. wow!

How did that house get through the rough framing inspection?

Looks like that footing has been repaired where the flashing is torn.

Nail guns have ruined quality building, I had to use hammer and no misses were allowed. Innovation doesn’t always equal quality.

This all looks like normal routine stuff that our local clueless inspector approves every day.

That exterior wrap SHOULD NOT be taped (1:26), until after the foundation drip flashing is put on. It gets taped over TOP of the flashing, not underneath!

Seeing how poorly this house is constructed is sad and a bit shocking. I'm actually more curious *WHY* such poor workmanship. Is the root problem inexperienced workers that generally would rather do a good job but haven't gained enough experience, or experienced workers that don't care and uninterested in mastering their own craft? What responsibility does the manager of the crew have in the crew's work output? What responsibility does the home building company have in putting policies in place to build to a target quality standard? Does the customer even want to buy a home built to a target quality standard, or is the builder simply offering the customer what the customer wants...the lowest price possible? If it's the latter then I'd argue you didn't really find any problems as the end product is intended and desired to be at this price and quality point.

People will spend hours researching what appliance they want to buy or what fixtures they want. They spend zero time researching how a good house is built. People care more about features than quality.

How do you even rectify all of that. It just seems so fundamental. You'd have to do so much work to get it right, especially the structural stuff.

It’s ridiculous, making those bolts in the concrete will hold that wall down .They’ll pull out their only nailer for the end grain of the wood. If you don’t have straps, forget it the proper way to do it have a strap in the concrete and run up the side of the stud. When I use to frame we will set up build a stack of inter walks and ever so often the bottom plate would fall off as we moved it to its location. The exterior sheeting only comes down 1-1/2 inches and you need to nail it off in the center giving only 3/4 of OSB left to hold the wall down .

Damn. So many shortcomings. Do you know a good inspector I can hire in Long Island, NY?

Fixing some of those items is going to be very expensive!

Kind of sad we have people in our industry who don't take pride in their work

When it’s bad enough a casual “HGTV” viewer can see the problems, you KNOW it’s bad

Window guys should be installing window flashing not framers

Looks like the sill corners of the windows aren’t flashed/taped either. 😮

is this one of those "i know a guy with a cheaper framing crew"

Must be Ryan Homes! Only way you’re gonna get a quality build it to do it yourself or go custom.

Tyvek shouldn’t be taped at bottom. Theres a lot more wrong with that ledge. You should have flashing running up behind the tyvek over the ledge

That black membrane on the top of the masonry should be folded up 6 inches onto the plywood behind the tyvek. Then the tyvek can be taped down. The black membrane butting up against the plywood is unacceptable, taped tyvek or not.

Many builders of subdivisions will not allow the purchaser or their inspectors on the site during the building process.

So how long will that masonry flashing last in a location that gets a lot of moisture?

I'll bet the builders like to delay the inspections because once it is covered up there is nothing to see.