Dozens of Low Quality Examples & Problems

Below is a partial list of the poor design elements or low quality materials.
Below the list are many photos of these failures, flaws & poor quality work.

• The roof was poorly installed, torn shingles, with holes cut in the roof and leaks.
  Inside the house there were several leaks that went unnoticed for months
• No seals was put around the counter tops or sink so more water dripped behind.
• The cabinets don’t have toe-kicks or back splashes, causing water to run down the walls
• The sink is very thin and cheap, w/square corners/unlevel water won’t drain, making it impossible to keep clean. We had to scrape it with a razor blade to clean it at all.
• Several of the drawers came apart. The bottoms fell out of 2 of them.
  Drawer bottoms were held together with brad. No support.
• The drawer tracks came un-screwed and the drawers fell off the tracks
• Cabinets were hung crooked w/a single screw holding up the entire cabinet
• Two kitchen cabinet doors were missing. And one replacement drawer.
• Stuart Sams required photos of the model home showing doors before he agreed to order the missing doors. The first delivery only had one door. The single door and drawer were both the wrong size,
• It took weeks to get the correct replacement drawer and doors.
• Second set of doors were half inch too wide. But they were installed anyway.
• A 3 foot wall in the master bath has no studs in it at all.
• The wrong size filters were put on the A/C heat exchanger
• Three of the pantry cabinets have no shelves
• Two 8 foot pantry cabinets only have 2 thin, fixed shelves in each one. Those shelves when removed, were held in each corner by a single brad that split the wood and one completely missed the shelf. Dishes made the shelf bow down and would have fallen with just a few dishes on it,
• There is no attic access.
• There area large number of exterior wall cavities with no insulation.
• Several interior partition walls have missing, twisted or splintered or partial studs.
• Electrical outlets are randomly placed on walls with no support making plugging and unplugging a concern.
• Two of the exterior electric outlets were not installed, and they would have been on the same 15amp kitchen outlet with appliances.
• Fridge came without a drip tray or a carbon filter. The office coordinator said they had some in their supply room, but when she checked they had mysteriously vanished,
• The trim is falling off the walls around the windows and doors
• Not all windows open and close properly including fire exit windows.
• There are places where we can see between the wallboards to the outside
• Bathroom sink plumbing is installed out in the middle of the lower cabinets leaving very little storage room where otherwise there would be ample room
• Toilet plumbing is not installed behind, but far out on the side.
• The siding was popping lose. Stuart Sams said none of it would last long?!?
• Batten strips are used as baseboards, door frames & crown molding everywhere except the kitchen/dining/living room areas.
  This was done throughout most of the house and around the doors.
• The partition walls are thin with gaps at the ends.
• The smoke alarms on one half of the house did not work.
• Poorly cut crown molding with large gaps. Molding warped and came loose.
• Huge gaps between the door frames and wallboards creating drafts.
• Half of the air ducts had no air flow. It was later discovered one duct was crushed.
• The list above mostly deals with the structure of the house. The far worst problems began before the house was even delivered. I cover those on another page, and reading the feedback on Clayton Homes of Hixson, they seem to be typical.