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Leaf here, and I work in a lot of new home construction. I dont build the houses, but my job lets me come into the houses as they are being built to install various things.
New houses here are absolute trash, built as fast and cheaply as possibly. Work crews are often poo and loos and mexicans rushing everything as fast as they can. Walls are often crooked and slanted as fuck. You can often throw a level on a random wall in the house and find that from the bottom of the wall to the top, it leans in/out an inch difference. Thats insane, but its commonplace.
The house frames are made out of basically fresh green pine, thats kiln dried and cut into 2x4's and other various length/widths. The wood is twisted and bent as fuck from the start. You can hold up brand new fresh 2x4s and look down the length of it and its bent like a fucking pringles potato chip, but they will still use that to build your walls. And then on top of that, they build houses year round, meaning your fresh new house frame gets rained/snowed on for weeks while they build it, twisting and deforming it even further.
New houses are shit. SHIT.
