Well, I know where the cement mixer was when they built my house

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Dude, there is nothing MAjOR with the house, but there are some pretty ****ed up things. The stair banner wobbly, screws in the cabinets stripped, the **** light switch panels have paint all over them, running boards cracked and painted over, no support beam for the ceiling fans, a bunch of other minute shit that is just adding up after we already signed and moved in. Wish we could have ben here to monitor the progress but Sicily is more than just a lil car ride ye know.

When ours was going up, the original floor joists were just supported by 4x4's in the basement...so after a few months, the entire floor began to sag. The floor was jacked up on hydraulic lifts for weeks until extra supports were brought in and nailed/glued to hold the floor up. That combined with the fact that the house sat with no work being done on it for three months is most of what cost the first GC his job //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

The chimney crick where the chimney meets the slope of the roof was never built properly. It continues to leak, and has ruined the finished drywall in the master bedroom.

The 400a electrical service popped the main breaker when it was first turned on, giving me the largest shock I've ever felt (or ever want to experience again //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif). Turns out, a metal window casing had shorted out a section of Romex. This is the same electrical system that had just passed inspection a few days prior.

There are switches that go to multiple sets of lights - you will literally never know for certain what switch goes to what, and what position it's in. The day I figure out how the lights work will be the day I die.

It's like Monticello in a way...which was never finished until Jefferson died, and was always in shambles when he lived there.

 

[RandyJ 10+ year member]

lol, **** man, tis effed up. I just remembered, there is a short somewhere, and there are a few switches in the house that you cannot flip or they pop the breaker for the computer room. Somehow, the switch next to the grinder in the kitchen is one of the ones. And the light switch in the computer room as well. ALong with the switched outlet switch. So all these switches connected somehow, to the ocmputer room, and there is a short somewhere. Found out the hard way when I was doing my first paper for this term one night and someone accidentally hit the switch for the switched outlet.

 

[tRiGgEr 5,000+ posts]

At least you have a house