House FLIP Gone Wrong Massive Shower Fail 

But it is not funny! The laws should be very strict in doing whatever ispossible to prevent this

That comment is spot on! We're gonna take care of them and make it right! 👊

hotness of markets is all manipulated. If they were forced to do things right, flippers wouldn't exist. They need to be sued out of their minds for stuff like this!! The laws should be highly facilitative for these kinds of cases. In fact the victim should have a choice - either walk away with full refund and force the flipper take it back, or the flipper pays for all repairs. There should be clear distinctions made between flippers and honest errors on the part of former home owners. It's fairly straightforward - anyone who made major enhancements and never lived in the place is clearly a flipper and should be criminally responsible for their work. If they were criminally negligent and did not advise the buyer of this, they should pay everything they can afford or go to jail. You wouldn't have this garbage, and you wouldn't have 'hot markets' either. It isn't healthy anyway when your average family cannot afford to own the average home without spending more than 20% of their livelihood on it. Laws should very cleverly do everything possible to prevent 'hot markets'. It is amoral to speculate on a primary dwellings, just like it would be amoral to speculate on food and have 'hot food markets'. Can anyone imagine that? No? Well then it should not be imaginable for normal primary homes either. This is what happens when misdirected greed is allowed to thrive supported by the system. Luxury yachts and mansions - ok, have all your 'hot markets' in extra items like this, but home building of our average home should be a very very quality controlled field

Sad to say, but the majority of these "contractors" do know what they're doing and they know enough to slap together this kind of garbage, make it look really good, and get paid for this criminal crap.

Chiafade now You have the most legit comment out the bunch

Alot of this flips need a inspection

Gross negligence for sure. I've been in construction for over 40 years, and never seen such shoddy work. Surprised it took three months of use to become apparent that it was leaking. I'm just guessing there were no inspections.

@@terrygoyan or the inspector was in on the shit job as well, just to make a buck. What a shame.

True, different way to think about it, if they know how to put tile on a wall, they should know it at least needs some sort of pan liner at the very least...somebody got pissed and threw up a shit job in a huge hurry, probably one day install. A typical shower like that takes me at least 3 days with waterproof prep, install, and grouting

I agree , this was done as cheaply as possible to sell the house fast. This is theft.

It's a problem across our economy, not just building. Have you heard of off-shoring, for example? Almost all companies do it these days. It causes nightmares and headaches for everyone else in more ways than one. But when it comes to profit do they care about that? No! They can shout from the rooftops about what 'customer always first' policies they have and even exercise all sorts of fake activities to 'instill' this in their 'culture', but at the end of the day will they still sell their customers crap that doesn't work as expected?? Absolutely!! Then when finally things go south, who suffers and pays with their jobs and wellbeing? That's right, the employees! The customers can go elsewhere, but the employees suffer most. And that nobody gives a hoot about in this system. Yet if they just paid good people to diligently and methodically do a good job (yes, this takes time and money!!), then the customers would be happy too. Jobs are for employees, not for customers, BTW. The opposite assumption is the fallacy that starts this whole evil chain.

Thanks for watching and the comment! 👊

I forgot, how many months did they use the shower for?

Was there a pan liner? ;)

I was about to comment something like that he said the same thing for 11 min

it is fake

Oh WOW. Sad for the new homeowner, but good for us installers I guess. Thank god for insurance 👊 New shower video will be up in a week or so. 👊

@@LandbergTileTV I am in home insurance., is the homeowner's carrier paying this or the general liability from the people who put the shower in? Either way, the insurance carriers will not be happy. Carriers in Florida would be fighting that tooth and nail because it was done prior to the homeowner owning it and it is a defect. They may cover some damages that is caused, but wow, that is crazy the shoddiness of that work.

@@Victriol I'm not sure, our client simply stated that insurance will cover repairs.

Neznisgip u can’t sue the inspector for some thing the can’t see and it not structure safety

Normally the inspector contracts say you can only sue them for the price you paid for the inspection I believe.

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Terrible experience, thanks for sharing!

No it does not

@@LandbergTileTV Thanks... I was thinking OMG the contractor did not put floor liner when they install the standing shower tub. I feel better now.

Damage was not too bad underneath, we did sister additional framing to original. Most damage was transferred to the kitchen!

@@LandbergTileTV I hope the homeowner was able to go after the ones who did the work, just hope they are insured that's a bummer

Unfortunately I don't know the details on the insurance policies used for this remodel..

Always check my video descriptions. Lot's of good information. How we fixed it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sAeONBjTglo.html

I normally see these on your channel.

Right, that's why I'm surprised !

So cal is worse. The demand is so high here...flippers can do the shoddiest work and still sell the house. I would never in my right mind by a flip in so cal.

Yes sir, I finally got one! Again, I feel terrible for this new family with a little girl. We're almost done with the remodel and it may be a blessing in disguise! They will get a beautiful shower with their personal choice of tile and color AND it will be waterproof! 👊

Starr Tile this was bad, really bad, my gramma could have done a better job!! 😅🤣😂

That's a great question! 👊

Because the drain would reduce down smaller than approved size.

No pan liner

LOL that was CRAZY! We were super surprised with the electrical tape! 👊

Only thing they forgot was the wire thru the drain , lol

Whats the problem? They bought color matched tape for the drain P.S. generous helping of sarcasm here

@@Handyguy223 lol

Yeah How can they use electrical tape, it should have been duct tape

lol, you'll get drunk if we play this game! 👊

lol I hear that all the time! and Jim Carrey...appreciate the comment and view brother 👊

online presence is the best way to find info.

Good luck! Hope you don't find too much of a mess...

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yeah id be more worried about the wiring!

Truth Seeker yep lol 😂

I highly doubt it I’ve hired daily laborers and they know 10000x more than your average John who thinks he knows it all cuz he put up a board of Sheetrock in the past.

@@josegalindo5207 Had a guy deliver my lunch one. He was wearing a reflective construction jacket. I have almost no doubt he was dry-walling the week before.

Yes, super crazy but no one got hurt

Exactly, hurt my soul also!

I wonder the same thing! At least this terrible install provides us work at the clients expense! Thank god for insurance! At least the new shower we are building will look beautiful AND be waterproof!

Lol right?!

I agree, there is so much information online with technology these days. Thanks for watching and the comment 👊

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The insurance company can. Subrogation!

That pan liner vinyl will outlast you and I. It's the bad installation being you removed 6 this year. We remodeled 24 showers this year and have not torn out a single pan liner shower....

I’d half to disagree , been doing showers since lead pan days .

Understand, we've been using Schluter trays these days and no more pan liners...It would be interesting to see how ripping out that foam tray may be....

Right?! crazy stuff brother...

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it was a great show! 👊👊

Wow I didn't know Adam Corolla was in construction before his other career. Just found the show its called Catch A Contractor. My tv and movie app has it on their too so I have something to binge watch once my other show is over.

That show was of the reasons I did so much of my house DIY: realized some of these contractors are so awful I could save money and sleep better since I knew I was doing it right

Adam Corolla is the spokesman/promoter for HomeAdvisor who is currently under allegations of fraud in a class action law suit filed for contractors being charged for fake leads.

What?! I’d watch that!!!!

It is in civilized countries

If this was real which I do not believe it is, it would be a civil violation, not criminal, Why do so many people like you blow things out of proportion, then when something really bad happens nobody will take you seriously. Proportion, Proportion, Proportion

Raymond J Fox forgive my ignorance, I was sitting here so disgusted and blown away, almost wondering can this be for real but never questioned it. You feel that they actually went through all the work of staging all of that? If so for views that would be pretty crazy in itself. Although what was going through my mind, it is hard to believe that shower lasted 3 months unless the owner lightly showered like once every couple of weeks lol.

@@Ghrainne I've started in the trade almost 2 years now, and I've already seen some pretty horrendous tile work. The most recent one was a house remodel we got because the owner knows my boss, were originally going to fix a few chipped tiles on 1 shower so, i go in and begin to pull out the tile and as soon as i took it out more pieces came with it. Whoever did the job also spot bonded the whole thing. We ended up redoing the whole house, which was equally horrible.

He said it was a house flip. The flippers pick up illegals to do the cheapest work possible. I fix about 6 of these a year.

Yes sir, correctly waterproofed via Schluter and a proper build and install. We'll have the final bath and shower ideas episode up in a week or so! Thanks for the view and comment 👊

Sal DiBlasi what are your thoughts on spot bonding? This spot bonding is obviously terrible but I’ve seen many installers that have been doing it for many years that do it.

@@MC-uq2uw Never do it, it is a failure waiting to happen, not an approved method by the TCNA and is in fact discouraged. Anyone that tells you they have been doing it for years with great success are unfamiliar with the problems associated with using spot bonding and are just hacks.

@@SalDiBlasi … seen a lot of your videos. Wish you were in my area! 800 square feet of house needs to be tiled, AND master bathroom gutted and redone.

@@DonCornelius366 I am sure you can find a good tile guy in your area.

For sure! Gotta teach peeps to do it right!

Insurance is paying. Let them lawyer up.

Could be PVC trim

Yes sir! Tile shower work is not easy! Watch out for those house flips! 👊👊👊

You know, actually, it looks to me like they knew exactly what they were doing. It looks like they intentionally cut corners to do the flip cheaply, get in, get out and get paid. And I hope it comes back and bites them in the ass. This looks like straight up deception to me.

@@djcbanks yup agreed, looks like they knew what they were doing but i'm sure whoever was paying them was a real crook and probably told them just get it done. Trust me i've come across bosses like that in the construction industry.

Looks like they just threw it together intentionally.

I’m glad their insurance covered it. I hope the insurers go after who did the “work” and make them pay it back.

Did they get a home inspection? If they did. He should have plugged that drain filled the shower pan with atleast 3 inches of water. That would have never passed. The water would have drained right out. There is just one law suit.

A home inspector cannot test it if the water wasn't turned on. It does happen

@@philbuilds116 where I'm from. The home inspector doesn't inspect unless the home is ready for an inspection. ie: water & electricity on. Or it's not a home inspection. This is up to the seller to have the home ready for installation. Or they have to pay a trip charge to the inspection company.

I’m not sure how it works, but it would be nice if the insurance company could go after whoever did that build. It was CLEARLY done with the intent to deceive the next buyer. It’s also extremely dangerous. A spot bonded tile can fall off and cause severe injury.

Unfortunately they would have a near impossible attempt at a lawsuit. Thats what Homeowners Insurance is for and a perfect example of why its necessary to have.

It's a lot easier to get away with shoddy work with some of the changes made in codes and inspection requirements. Throw in a questionable inspector and you have a real sh*t storm of problems. I find it hard to believe you are flipping houses and doing proper work, it would kill your profit margins and defeat the purpose of flipping. Maybe you just have sold to people who don't understand what they purchased or just passed the problem to someone else? I find it hard to believe the insurance is actually covering the damage to the house in the video based on the cause.

@@Ashad2012 There are flippers who can do the work properly and make great profit. It's just all about knowing what you are doing, as with anything else. With flipping, it's all about knowing what you are doing on the front end and, that is......BUYING RIGHT.

Probably the former owner of this did the job and sold it to the next buyer

It’s a good start, but not that simple. Code is the bare minimum and that doesn’t always mean good. Inspectors miss things too. They are there to collect on that gov $$$

Your comment is irrelevent It was a house flipper. No reason for him to spend more money Our legislation just sits on their ass on this

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It’s never a contractor, just some asshole who watched hgtv thinking they can do a contractors job. You want a contractor to flip houses because they know construction, not some white collar asshole that doesn’t know shit!

You flip houses and don’t do the work ? Just looking for some dudes to work for as cheap as possible so you can make a profit ? Glad you got burnt.

Yes, we know, it's crazy man! We can't wait until we demo/open up the second shower, stay tuned....👊👊

Yes sir, I have to spread the video word! Terrible job... 👊

The owner's insurance company covered it. I can assure you the insurance company's subrogation department has a whole team of hungry lawyers to chase down everyone they can pin any level of responsibility on. ;)

Yes, you're spot on! Building a shower is NOT easy and takes a lot of experience. Just because you can install a backsplash does NOT mean you can build a shower. 👊

@@LandbergTileTV I'm a contractor, and fight this all the time. We use to have apprenticeships of several years before you could run a crew. One we see often is green board as a backer board with nothing on it but tile.

Some people who should know better just refuse to do it right. I had a designer tell me she didn't like bullnose, just wanted me to run the saw down the edge tiles a bit. She had a full bathroom tiled in a $3 million+ house... No bullnose, tile just stops. It looks terrible.

Uggg, those designers! Act like they know more than us!

Holly smokes! Tile on carpet! Wowzers

kinda hilarious actually...other than you needing to redo it.

It’s just padding for the tile lol

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