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Crack in the foundation?...cover it with carpet; Broken wires?...cover them with drywall; Construction debris?...cover it with sod.

Sod placed directly on construction debris; piles of construction debris left semi-buried in adjacent conservation area. Cheap flooring, light fixtures, and countertops. HVAC system not energy efficient. Some walls don't meet ceilings or adjacent walls with a straight line. Some bricks were placed together without mortar in between. Paint splattered on all windows, still haven't been able to clean it all off (months later). Holes in yard where fill has settled (have to step around carefully to avoid spraining ankles). Walking around during construction, we saw wall studs that weren't nailed to the supporting beams accross the top (we could see the nails -- they completely missed the studs). But we didn't expect perfection;we did do our homework and had a good idea what to expect. We did get an all-brick, 1820 sqft house on a cul-de-sac next to a conservation at an affordable price. We were hoping Adams would impress us and deliver better than their competitors, but we honestly didn't expect they would. What we did expect was that all steps in the process would be better supervised. Instead, it seems our house was built by micro-teams working independently. It seemed no one was on site to make sure one step was completed before the next team came along to complete the next step, and it seems each team was only concerned about performing their assigned task giving no thought nor care to whether the prior, supporting steps had been completed or not. For example, we knew there was a broken garage door eyebeam wire left behind the drywall in the garage -- we saw it before the drywall was installed but no one seemed interested when we pointed it out. We were told if the garage door didn't work when we had the opener installed (at our own expense), give Adams a call. So we had to incur the immediate expense of installing a garage door opener (a cost which we might have deferred until later, otherwise) to prove the wire was still broken. Sure enough, the garage door eyebeams didn't work -- the drywall had been installed right over the obviously broken wire. Sure Adams was quick about resolving the problem, but the repair required a hole to be made in the drywall, a patched hole which could have been prevented if the dry wall installers had stopped when they saw the very conspicuous, long hanging wire and pointed it out to the supervisor...or if the supervisor himself would have actually walked around (it would have been very difficult to miss, and not only was it hanging like that for weeks, we told him about it!). And I still can't believe sod was laid right over so much junk -- not just construction debris, but also soda cans, empty water bottles and potato chip bags, cigarette butts...We can't plant anything without running into chunks of cement, boards with rusty nails, huge sheets of plastic, long strip-ties.... Oh, and about the crack in our foundation which extends almost the entire width of our house: we were told not to worry about it because the carpet will cover it. But they probably didn't expect us to tear up the carpet and replace it with wood flooring so soon. When we do, if the crack has widened, they will have to address it, because it will still be covered by the warranty. P.S. Word to the wise: be sure the driveway of the house you are purchasing is adequate (i.e., it is long enough to park all of your cars). Many homeowners here in Fox Hill Farms Unit 1 own more than two cars but can barely fit even two cars in their very short driveways. Normally both sides of the streets are lined with cars and consequently only one vehicle can cautiously drive through at a time, making the entire neighborhood feel overcrowded.