Have been living for half a year in a new house and already feel it's starting to look worn out. Compared to my previous house built in '87, and if you ignore that it's almost 20 years old, it feels more solid. I assume it may also depend on which home builder constructs the house.
-The parquet is cracking.
-Faucets replaced in the bathrooms
- Doors are warped
- Paint chips quickly on doors, etc.
-Much feels fragile.
But was it better before?
The home builder can certainly save money by choosing cheaper materials, but what should one really accept?
-The parquet is cracking.
-Faucets replaced in the bathrooms
- Doors are warped
- Paint chips quickly on doors, etc.
-Much feels fragile.
But was it better before?
The home builder can certainly save money by choosing cheaper materials, but what should one really accept?
In these cases you list, it's the quality that matters, if you buy a cheaper brand on an item to keep the construction cost down, it will definitely come back after a while..... Quality costs like,,,,, (That's why I drive a LEXUS as a car) (Use a Kirby machine for maintenance in house and car) 
It was certainly possible to get hold of junk quality materials in the past as well, but such junk quality things don't last as long, so after a while, only the quality stuff that has survived from a certain era remains, while all the junk has perished, which then gives the impression that everything from that era was of high quality. There were shoddy constructions 100 years ago as well, but they are no longer around.
It is perfectly possible to get hold of high-quality timber and high-quality carpenters today too, but quality costs.
It is perfectly possible to get hold of high-quality timber and high-quality carpenters today too, but quality costs.
We had parquet in the old house; there were scratches and some marks. In the new house, it's a parquet that can't be sanded, it has a hard core and is supposed to be very good. According to the seller. But that's what makes it fragile. If something is dropped on it, pieces of the wood surface come off. On a softer parquet, a dent would form and the wood would rise after a while, and the mark wouldn't be so noticeable. You don't think about such marks.Ksund said:
In the kitchen, we need to replace the entire floor, after six months. We had a wooden floor in the previous house too, and there were no problems. And it wasn't a particularly expensive type or anything.
The interior doors are starting to lose paint in some places, which the old ones didn't. The ones in the previous house feel like they have a harder surface.
Are there different hardnesses of plasterboard? - I've gotten several marks from toys. That didn't happen in the previous house.
So I agree, there were more durable materials in the old house. Otherwise, it's a nice house and we like it, but it feels like it's quickly becoming worn.
A lot is standard from the house supplier, but standard doesn't mean it should be bad, right?
The options, for me, are to choose a few more features and gadgets, not that you should be forced to choose a bunch of things to get a livable house.
That sounds bad, is it Kährs Linnea 7 mm you have? Or a similar product from another supplier? Interested to hear what's not good...fubar said:
Unfortunately, it seems that house suppliers have noticed that people request quotes and then choose the cheapest option without checking the materials closely, so they generally use fairly cheap materials in the standard version.
I think it's called "residence" or something similar, probably from golvabia and is 7mm thick. It's anyway hjältevads standard floor.
Anyone know what happened when the floor goes in waves? -Each board is higher in the middle and slopes towards the edges, if you run your hand or foot over it, it's clear that it's not flat and there's a void underneath. It looks like this on a couple of square meters in one corner of the living room.
Could it be that the underside has dried/shrunk more than the top? The top is lacquered and unaffected by humidity and doesn't move ... or maybe it expands due to heat? Do you have a lot of sunlight in the affected corner? Just guessing...fubar said:
gaia
We are having problems with the recidencegolv as well. Standard in the house, the kitchen floor looks like a demolition house and there are problems with cracks in other rooms. Can we replace the floor with a better one from the house manufacturer?