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You'd be surprised by how many differences there are in new houses (or other dwellings) that were built off of the same blueprints. These are usually small thin
by Mountain_Skies 6y ago
You'd be surprised by how many differences there are in new houses (or other dwellings) that were built off of the same blueprints. These are usually small things but if you live in one of the homes, it is noticeable.
I lived in a midrise condo and was the first person to move into the building so I had pretty run of the entire building for a few weeks. All of the units in any given stack of units were meant to be identical but they weren't. Sometimes a cabinet over where the fridge was to go would be missing or maybe the protective lens over the light fixture in the shower ceiling. Walls that met at a non 90 degree angle sometimes had a sharp corner, other times a smooth one, and some other times a beveled corner. Most of these difference were too small to have been customizations. They were from different work crews interpreting things differently. They were from the materials on hand being slightly different between days when the interior of different units were worked on.
In my last house the neighbor across the street had the same floor plan as us but once again, lots of minor difference of little consequence but noticeable. Most were obviously from the differences in materials on site and the quirks of individual workers.
- lifeisstillgood 6y agoI absolutely agree - I call this field-not-yet-factory. In a factory those sort of differences will be autoamted away In the "field" they are left to the skill, discretion, whatever of individual workforce. Frankly this costs the construction industry a fortune - work done substandard has to then be corrected later at great expense, so the driving goal will be towards a "robot construction worker" - but getting there you can imagine is problematic. Pre-fab buildings have existed for a century by now, and they do work. However, they have a negative market reaction in most locales, and the cost saving again is not huge. so here we are.