And this is why you should watch your contractors carefully!
This picture was sent by an inspector. I'm not exactly sure how you could screw up like this, but the picture proves it happens. Watch your contractors carefully!
Hint: Look at the window locks. The entire house was like this.
I've done home inspections for 23 years, and seen everything; wait until you go to leave your house and lock your sliders, and find the locks on the outside; --it happens
There is nothing wrong there, those are installed to the new "Child-Resistant Standards" to prevent young-uns from opening the locked window and falling out of it......
In some areas (Tropical, mostly) Cold water causes excessive condensation/sweating on the toilet tank... The proper fix for it is to use a Hot/Cold mixing valve, or 'Temperator' to supply Warm (not fully Hot) water to the tank.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to get into a room at the 2nd or 3rd floor if the windows are locked from the inside??? Not only you have to sneak through a small opening, you have to struggle to slide the window open while trying to keep your balance on the ladder. Been there, done that a couple of times after leaving my keys inside
The good news here, if there is any, is that it appears when the picture was taken the siding was not applied. That will make it a whole lot cleaner to correct this "feature".
Several years ago I showed up at a newly built home and the owners were not looking too happy when I arrived.
It seemed they used their huge dining room as the main place to pile a whole bunch of boxes, the piano etc from the moving truck before disbursing to correct rooms. It was all a big wet mess with a damaged ceiling.
Apparently the plumbers failed to glue together the drain from the massive bath tub in master bathroom - that was directly above the dining room. First bath in new house, must have been nice until the end. Blew the ceiling out and a 100 or so gallons of water dumped on their stuff and new wood floors.....
There was an issue with one of the other houses in my neighborhood last year. Brand new construction, and the night before the soon-to-be owners did their final pre-closing walkthrough, thieves went in and stole all of the appliances, toilets, granite counter tops, etc. And they couldn't be bothered to shut the water off first, so water flooded out of every line all night.
I've done home inspections for 23 years, and seen everything;
One of my favorite stories I heard was they hooked up the hot water supply to the toilet.
That happened to me. The builder's plumber tied the hot and cold in the master bathroom both to the hot supply line.
The steamy flushes were funny, but the super-hot showers weren't. It was my first house of my own, so it didn't occur to me to just reduce the temperature on the hot water tank until the builder fixed it.
With pipes embedded in a concrete slab, hot toilets are common. You don't always know where the pipes run.
Neighbor had that happen. FOund at closing, so they fixed it. It was fine until the next winter when the 1 pipe the had to add to fix it ran in the attic froze. They did fix it for her.
There was an issue with one of the other houses in my neighborhood last year. Brand new construction, and the night before the soon-to-be owners did their final pre-closing walkthrough, thieves went in and stole all of the appliances, toilets, granite counter tops, etc. And they couldn't be bothered to shut the water off first, so water flooded out of every line all night.