Vancouver Pre-sale FAIL 

The way you pick apart every single little detail has inspired me to be a little more thorough in my day to day life. Weather it be helping a buddy test out a new car, signing a lease for a new place to stay, or even in my own personal endeavors building guitars: it's truly refreshing to find someone that takes so much pride in their work to pull inspiration from. Awesome stuff man!!

As far as I'm concerned, warranty isn't worth the paper it's printed on. At most I would expect someone to put a bead of silicone on the shower. Cheap and easy. The rest, that will cost money. I would be surprised if they did anything other than drag their feet until the warranty is expired. A followup video would be interesting showing if and how they fixed everything you found.

Thank you for sharing your videos. You really find flaws i never would. God bless

Two observations: The length limit is for the dishwasher discharge hose. However, it is possible they switched from hose to 1.5 inch DWV pipe partway. Poor location for the washer, though, chosen for cosmetic reasons, with no consideration of usefulness. The range hood issue is a pet peeve. Almost all I have seen are too high to be useful. The steam or smoke spreads out as it rises, missing the hood! A lower hood would catch more of it.

Your really good. I wish inspectors where I live were as good as you. I’ve bought two new homes in the area I live where inspectors I hired missed huge obvious things that I didn’t notice until later.

I always install my dishwashers here in Lithuania like this: If the dishwasher is not right next to a kitchen sink, I will run 40 mil drain pipe along the back side of the cabinets, under the cabinet floor, in the space of the ground where the feet of the counters are hidden, and then I will raise the pipe trough the cabinet floor right at the back of the dishwasher, to minimise run lengh of the hose. I also put a 40 mil p-trap the connect the hose, so I will be sure 100% It will never leak, never clog and never stench the house with sewer gas when homeowners go away for months and leave the dishwasher open, so the internal water reservoir evaporate and give way to sewer gas. This is my prefered way to install them.

Why is the builder not liable for the rapairs? I don't understand why home owners make a claim for 2-5-10 warranty insurance instead of getting the builder to cover the costs.

Wish you were in Ontario. I would hire you Tom. Keep up the good work.

Man you’d set a lot of people and attitudes right if you came to Alberta for a couple months. We need more guys like you who actually give a shit about the work and not just how fast the cheque comes in 👍🏻

2:01 Why would the dishwasher be so far away from the sink? That makes zero sense.

awesome videos Mr Tom. very informative thanks for sharing your job and time. I find these very interesting.

The Dishwasher is way to far away to be convenient. Looks like builder cut some corners to make a few bucks but caused $5000 to 10k worth of fixes. That kitchen is a disaster for layout! Great Video

Unbelievable what you found

1:57 How hard can it be for the builders to put some proper silicone seal in the bottom of those metal "cases"? Maybe i'm misstaking silicone for something else, but you know, yeah.

That bathroom fan bit is great info for scaring clients in to un necessary upgrade work nice thank you

Other then the fan and leaky shower. Dishwasher will work just fine and hood vent. It will work

Video listed as a pre sale fail but the bathroom already had personal things placed throughout?

The shower enclosure is a product failure, the metal frame seals are what what's leaking.

The bath fan is nice buts it’s no good if people (like my wife) won’t use it.

love your videos- your attention to detail is noteworthy

Why wasn't the dishwasher placed right next to the sink, like in a typical house? Placing it at the end like that doesn't make any sense.

wow the bottom seal looks kinda home made and silicone seal only or something, wow it leaks ALOT.

I sell Euro showers for a living and for a 1.5 million dollar residence they got a cut rate Euro. You might also consider that when they drill the curb to install the bottom channel they penetrated the waterproof membrane underneath the tile and created a path for water to get into the curb and to the subfloor. If you know what you are doing you never need to drill the curb like that.

Nice job Tom.

a reason tile is required in kit or bath areas.

use caution when hiring so called inspectors folks

I'm wondering now if all the other units in this building have the same problems?

This video is a good example of how some developers will do anything to save a buck.

great educational video

Good point about sufficient exhaust capacity to clear the volume of the room of steam. However, I dream of a home where the toilet odour does not get a chance to pollute the whole room, forcing you to change out valuable warm air every time. I would love to have another exhaust fan on the wall, low down beside the toilet. Turn it on before sitting down, and never pollute the room!

Damn after u find all the shoddy work of incompetent builders do they have to come back and fix it? What if u don't want the same builders back?

Or more correctly: 8.5 x 9.5 x 8= 646cf/60=10.76 x 8 (Times per hour) =86.13cfm. Fan too small as he said. Great video!

Only in real estate would a customer spend that much money and have no clue what they're looking at.

Without looking at all the comments left on you page, can I ask who the prime contractor is that built this unit? I think I have a guess, as I'm in Construction Safety here in the lower mainland

I wonder if America has laws like these and warranties

I bet this guy is really good at worst case scaring people

If You Would Inspect My House - You Would Say It needs To Be Demolished ON SPOT ! ;(

It would almost pay to have you fly into any location to do a home inspection. I know, just watch your videos.

Here, the vanity alone is greater than 4 cu ft. Fan is sized fine. Show us the discharge connection for the dishwasher or that one is getting tossed with the fan. Generally your videos aren't too bad, but your grasping for straws at this one. Its okay to find nothing on an inspection. No content, thumbs down.

Ok so who would run that much water on a shower glass ? Obviously your body would block a lot or the water flow .if I took a garden hose to a window and just let it run sooner or later it would leak ..

Of course, "fail" is a VERB.

I didn't know that Asko was international

Is Canada not using the metric system?

Make more videos ?

Hey Tom do you do inspections in Washington state?

jeeze you're good at your job. Great work.

Thorough

Never buy a condo in BC

My offer would be $75,000.

You look related to the Howards.

Good video

If you furnish your million dollar condo with plastic hello kitty shit from DAISO you shouldn't notice these flaws

Wow this guy knows his shit

Zojirushi rice cooker

100 years ago, there was no such thing as fanning out a bathroom. And people didn't die of it. I lived in such a house for over 10 years, taking steaming hot showers and barely ever had mold. Cleaned it well, and no problem. Smoking and sedentary lifestyle will kill you waaaaay faster than any of that.

1.5 m!!! LOL WTF whats wrong with ppl

What a fail, 1.5 mil? LOL

Sad

Yikes

Jose he no care!

Butcher contractor!!!

Not really shit. Good thing you don’t do that type of straw grasping where I build , Call the glass company for the silicone bead forgot when glass installed not a good video

there is no way the discharge line is 14 feet . the dishwasher discharge line comes out on the left. the there is a 2 foot cabinet. with a 3 foot lazy Suzan. a sink is 3 foot wide. 9 to 10 feet max. this guy is a joke. people your home inspectors you hire spend $500 and take a 8 hour class. they are just trying to feed you bs to get money!!