Chronicles of Nickerson - Let the water testing begin

Over the next two weeks we will have water testing done by a water proofing company and by the window manufacturer. We are still going through the finger pointing exercise of whether the windows have manufacturer defects,manufacturer warranty, and/or they were installed incorrectly, contractor warranty. In the meantime, everyone just keeps pouring more and more water into our house. "Yep, it leaks," is the opinion of everyone. But it is all about fault, not about making things right. Who is at fault? Who is going to have to pay for it? For the fix and the repairs? Those are the big questions. Who determines what fixes are acceptable? The timeline they are done on? The quality of the repairs? Not us.

It's almost as if this whole debacle has nothing whatsoever to do with us. It's our house, our lost investment, but in the state of Texas, this process goes through the TRCC - The Texas Residential Contruction Commission. And according to them, the builder is given the opportunity to repair everything. The same guy who made the mistakes in the first place is given an endless amount of time to come in and "fix" what he did wrong. I'm filled with confidence.

In the meantime, the roofer came over at our request to check on the cracks that have appeared in the fiberglass on the garage-top deck. He assures us that those are normal and fine. Good news. He also checked, for fun, the roof while he was here. He installed that as well. He was surprised to see a deck up there. He didn't install a roof that could withstand that kind of usage. He just thought it would be walked on maybe once a year for HVAC maintainance (the air conditionter is up there). So we might add the roof to the list of cracks, leaks, cupping..... And a few more choice words to the children's vocabulary.

Posted at 10:18AM Jun 07, 2006 by sarad in General  |