Blow in insulation has an r value of roughly 3 per inch. Not likely 4 inches is gonna do much especially if there is 10" in already.
Blow in insulation has an r value of roughly 3 per inch. Not likely 4 inches is gonna do much especially if there is 10" in already.
Gotta be the pink bathroom tile or maybe the avocado kitchen appliances.
There are some good and bad about 1950's - 1960's house. The bad being the poor windows and poor insulation. When it was -25 the other night I put my hand on the argon filled e-glass windows and they were cool but not that cold. Same night a friend was posting pictures of an ice glacier growing on his 1970's window.
Build materials, attention to detail, pride of build...
TBF my current 1950’s house was a custom build back then. A local builder just working on this house until it was finished and they could move on to the next one. Not just a McDonald’s menu house one of 80 in the latest development on the outskirts of town.
New build felt like a house of cards, this 1950’s house feels like a brick shithouse (or stone shithouse in the case of my house...REAL STONE).
I guess I haven't really seen that in any trade. You never have to hire someone.
Go about 45 minutes east of you and you will see that in a few towns. One town has houses built by only 2-3 main builders since WWII. They were tight with the city and would buy all new development, then require they built the houses. If you didn’t want them, be prepared to buy an acreage or buy an old house and tear it down.
Glad to hear OP finally got the builder to inspect the problem better. I hate to admit it but for some reason certain types of businesses think they can pull a fast one over on a female too as it sounds like they didn't put the effort into inspecting it closer until after you personally got involved. Had to deal with that kind of crap myself with a car dealer trying to screw my wife over on a car repair until I took the car in myself and got a totally different story about what needed to be done. If you don't get it resolved to your satisfaction a complaint with the BBB should hopefully get their attention.
And 20's for humidity is nothing, he is full of it thinking that is the root cause. We have a whole house humidifier on our furnace and I keep our humidity in the 40's and never had it cause problems like yours. We tend to keep ours a little on the higher side because both our kids would have problems with ear infections if they got a prolonged cold so we try to keep the air from getting too dry which helps out.
You should have some kind of warranty I would think. In commercial, we usually have to provide at least one year and sometimes more. Has the contractor been paid in full?
You might consider hiring a good home inspector to give your place a going over, before your warranty expires.Yes, we ave a 1 year builder's warranty..... And to be fair, they are getting people out here to look at things, and get them fixed, but My concern is, if they had an issue like this after less than two months, what other things are we going to find? I think we might have dodged a bullet with this one, but what if this had been a little less severe? It could have been something that we might have missed, and after years of not knowing it was there and not addressing it, we could have been looking at thousands of dollars in repairs for mold, rot, etc. It just shakes my confidence in the overall quality of the build.
Unfortunately there is never a way to know unless you get a quality inspector to go through everything. I have a buddy in Ankeny that I would trust with all my home concerns. He's a great friend from church. It will cost a few hundred, but if you are worried I think this is the only way to ease your mind. Maybe you could get the builder to cover the cost. My guess is that they won't, they will say they have done what Chuck will do for you.Yes, we ave a 1 year builder's warranty..... And to be fair, they are getting people out here to look at things, and get them fixed, but My concern is, if they had an issue like this after less than two months, what other things are we going to find? I think we might have dodged a bullet with this one, but what if this had been a little less severe? It could have been something that we might have missed, and after years of not knowing it was there and not addressing it, we could have been looking at thousands of dollars in repairs for mold, rot, etc. It just shakes my confidence in the overall quality of the build.
You might consider hiring a good home inspector to give your place a going over, before your warranty expires.
Yes, we ave a 1 year builder's warranty..... And to be fair, they are getting people out here to look at things, and get them fixed, but My concern is, if they had an issue like this after less than two months, what other things are we going to find? I think we might have dodged a bullet with this one, but what if this had been a little less severe? It could have been something that we might have missed, and after years of not knowing it was there and not addressing it, we could have been looking at thousands of dollars in repairs for mold, rot, etc. It just shakes my confidence in the overall quality of the build.
Are they out of Huxley by chance?@cdnlngld I'm still curious who the builder is. Drop the dime on them!
Nope, based in the DSM area.Are they out of Huxley by chance?
Nope, based in the DSM area.
It doesn’t really matter who the builder is—it’s who the subcontractor was for any particular problem area that comes up. The framers are their own company. The roofers are subs. The finish carpenter isn’t an employee either. Each trade is independent and most builders are fishing from the same big pond. I’ve seen the same subs working on $500,000 homes and the a month later are banging out work on $200,000 spec homes. You’d think with the half million dollar home you’d get better quality. Maybe you are with materials—but the same joes are doing the work and if they suck or are lazy then it doesn’t matter.