"I stand corrected....this pee pee soaked heck hole"
Posted on 04/01/2005 5:12:00 AM PST by billorites
Bradley and Margaret Parker's version of the American dream was ruined by subcontractors who urinated in the unfinished house, a Tuesday lawsuit alleges.
"It shocks people. It was something (the Parkers) couldn't mentally overcome," their attorney, Douglas May, said Tuesday after filing suit against Ryan Homes.
The Clermont County couple put $5,000 down in June on the $290,390 home they contracted to buy on Lot 44 of the Terrace Ridge subdivision.
In October, though, they made a surprise visit to their home as it was under construction and found several areas inside the home that had been damaged due to pooled urine, the suit stated.
"There's really no dispute that the activity of urinating occurred," May said, adding that drywall contractors are the prime suspects. "We have photographs of the stained areas."
NVR, Inc., doing business as Ryan Homes, was contracted to build the house. Representatives of Ryan, which builds homes in 10 states and has a regional office in West Chester, couldn't be reached for comment.
The suit against Ryan accused the builder of "allowing workers to habitually urinate within the home while it was under construction.
"Said habits were sufficiently pervasive to generate pools of urine within a linen closet never conceived to house a toilet," the suit stated.
The pooling was so prevalent, the suit added, that the urine soaked through the floor and kitchen ceiling, causing another pool of urine in a space between the kitchen and dining room.
Ryan neglected to supervise its subcontractors, the suit added, resulting in "health hazards and a dangerous living environment unacceptable to the ordinary customer."
The suit also accused the builder of unfair labor practices.
When Ryan was contacted about the problem, May said, it responded with "spot fixing" by replacing some drywall.
The suit seeks to have Ryan return the Parkers' $5,000 down payment and release them from their contract.
That shouldn't be a problem, May added, because the house was placed on the market and has been sold.
Maybe i'm premature: Illegals drywall workers??
Is urinating in houses common in Mexico?
Perhaps, but it's more likely to be the low standards of professionalism that exists among so many of our fellow Americans.
I mean, what a surprise that the sheetrockers didn't defecate in a corner of the cellar as they usually do.
It is now. They learned it from our union drywallers.
"I stand corrected....this pee pee soaked heck hole"
CLOSE THE BORDERS NOW! [laughing]
I contracted to have a custom home built once. Never again.
Our experience is that the only competent, qualified workers we found to do refurbishment work on our house were (legal) immigrants from South and Central America. The worst people we hired were Americans. If they had urinated in the house that would have been a quality improvement over what they did do.
Recently produce from Chile (and perhaps other countries) was found to be contaminated from workers' urinating and defecating in the fields.
Interesting tidbit I learned from a duo of plumbers here in the Coachella Valley (large Mexican population)...First generation Mexicans don't flush paper - they keep a container in the bathroom where the used stuff gets tossed. They guess it's something to do with Mexico's rudimentary septic or sewer system.
The plumbers say it really disgusts them.
Posts 3 and 2 are all probably correct as well. There have been quite a few stories lately about shoddy work in half-million dollar houses. This is the first time I've heard of peeing in a house. It really boils my blood to think that someone pays that much money for a home and it is built in a substandard fashion. It seems like you have to watch these people construct your home every minute of the day, now.
My wife encourages me to do just that...she hates it when I'm out whizzing under the grapefruit tree.
This isn't an "isolated incident". Trust me...
I was told that some building sites are disgusting places where they have 5 gallon buckets sitting around all over the place full of various bodily fluids.
This isn't an "isolated incident". Trust me...
I was thinking the same thing. 20 years ago one of the properties I manage had a major fire. I was shocked at some of the things I saw go on while the place was being rebuilt.
That's not the first time I have heard that. I also worked with a guy who used to lay tile for a living. He said on many of the hotels he was contracted to work in he would find that some of the illegals had crapped in the bathtubs and showers instead of the toilets.
When urinating is outlawed, only outlaws will... oh, never mind...
You should see a construction site at a commercial project. People act like animals
Put a tool down and walk away - it will be gone in 5-10 minutes.
People relieving themselves in the oddest places - like the Jobox of a "fellow" contractor.
If you have a good clerk of the works or a construction manager, they will toss those folks off the site promptly. If not, it's like kids going wild when there is a substitute teacher.
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