OK, so, to those of you who pine for a new house where everything is fresh and pe
rfect and right, well, it's a total crock. Myth. Fairy tale. Fallacy. We have had so many problems with our brand-spanking-new house that it has made me crazy. Major roof leak (into our master bedroom). Snow blowing into our basement (through the WALL). Snow INSIDE our gas fireplace and winds that blow through the fireplace vents that rival an open window. Defective ceramic tile on top of a faulty underfloor. Not to mention all the other smaller annoyances that may be expected. Thankfully our builder does make an effort to make things right, but my house feels like a revolving door of contractors and workers leaving more mess for me to clean up. Currently we are worried that we have an attic space packed full of snow because it's built in such a way that we can't access it to clear it out. So i'm waiting for the next drywall bubble to appear in my ceiling. I'm missing my 30-year old fixer-upper house we left behind in Maryland. We may have had to replace just about everything in it when we bought it, but at least it was structurally sound! So take it from me, let someone else live in your next house first and work out all the kinks...
rfect and right, well, it's a total crock. Myth. Fairy tale. Fallacy. We have had so many problems with our brand-spanking-new house that it has made me crazy. Major roof leak (into our master bedroom). Snow blowing into our basement (through the WALL). Snow INSIDE our gas fireplace and winds that blow through the fireplace vents that rival an open window. Defective ceramic tile on top of a faulty underfloor. Not to mention all the other smaller annoyances that may be expected. Thankfully our builder does make an effort to make things right, but my house feels like a revolving door of contractors and workers leaving more mess for me to clean up. Currently we are worried that we have an attic space packed full of snow because it's built in such a way that we can't access it to clear it out. So i'm waiting for the next drywall bubble to appear in my ceiling. I'm missing my 30-year old fixer-upper house we left behind in Maryland. We may have had to replace just about everything in it when we bought it, but at least it was structurally sound! So take it from me, let someone else live in your next house first and work out all the kinks...
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