Crooked, crooked and annoying. Naturally, Professional craftsmen never make mistakes. Some builders are just unlucky!
And who then discovers structural damage, Unfortunately, you often notice it too late - bitter experiences, which probably everyone does once. We have written down a few of them for you.
To the outside observer, the building looks the same, what a house should look like: four walls, windows and doors in it, a roof on top. Really cozy, it seems so. But appearances are deceptive. Sloppiness everywhere causes nothing but trouble.
Kurt B. from Hamburg tried for almost 25 Years, to be comfortable in his home. "In the beginning, groundwater ran into the basement", he tells. On the other hand, a so-called special tub should help. But she got cracks in her turn, and again water penetrated through the foundation. "If I hammered a nail into the basement wall, then it gushed out of the hole like a spring.”
As if the house of Mr. B. cursed, even the carpenters were unable to install the windows and doors, without the brickwork crumbling all around. More entries in the horror chronicle: Moisture between the panes clouded the insulating glazing. A crack in the roof covering allowed rainwater to seep in. Burnt through cables paralyzed the underfloor heating.
Mr B. is by no means part of a minority. Shoddy construction is a widespread evil. The Federal Building Ministry estimates the avoidable structural damage in Germany at at least ten billion marks a year. A sum, the alone to build around 30 000 single-family homes would suffice.
• Saxony: Chimney builders dropped the chimney onto the roof of the house. The Brok-ken landed in the bedroom. The force of the impact left
the pipes burst in the bathroom. The consequence: flooding.
• Schleswig-Holstein: Electricians laid new cables. The tenant then wondered about the sharp rise in electricity bills.
The solution to the riddle: The craftsmen had also connected the pipes from the neighboring apartment to their meter.
• Hessen: Additional space was to be created on the ground floor of a two-story house. Eight to ten workers eliminated all of them
supporting parts. The building was then in acute danger of collapsing. It was evacuated and sealed.
Incidents are not always so spectacular, that the tabloids would take notice, and also not so clear, as to causes and accountability. Things often get unclear then, if it is a new build, who makes an impeccable impression when the keys are handed over – especially when the building is viewed through the eyes of a new homeowner.