This week, a 10-man demolition crew entered our home to perform “destructive testing.”
1. Destructive = putting holes in the walls
2. Testing = looking for construction defects not visible on the outside
Because of attorney-client privilege, I can’t say the exact nature of the testing, but suffice to say our HOA is suing the builder to correct various suspected defects.
Neither side wanting to settle, a long drawn-out legal battle ensues. And apparently this happens often enough to be big business. We have lawyers that specialize in suing builders, and they hired a construction company that specializes in helping lawyers sue builders. What a strange niche to have as a contractor… the guy who rips apart somebody else’s work so somebody else can sue them. But it must be pretty lucrative.
I don’t know if they found what they were looking for. It seems like a pretty big gamble, to pay such a big crew to do this kind of work across so many units. I wonder if they’ll find enough “defects” to cover their cost, plus the legal and attorney’s fees, and whether the defense will pay up.
Our living room:
Random hole on the stairs:
And while we’re here, let’s not forget the outside:
I think these guys messed up our garage door, and are supposed to be coming back next week to mud/tape/paint over their holes. It will be pretty impressive if they can really make it look like it never happened. And hopefully there will be no need for a third crew to come back and find the defects in their work.
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yikes!
OK, so I thought only the units on the other side of the road were needing work! When will this be “finished”? What are they looking for anyway? I thought all the mice were gone?!