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PAGE 10,WEDNESDAY,JULY 10, 1985, WIITBY FREE PRESS But certainly not all of them.... Some buyers have nothing but praise CONT'D FROM PG. 9 soon as you sat down on it. In another home steam came out of the toilet when it flushed because it had been hooked up to the hot water pipe. Another home had a hole beneath the bow window large enough to stick your arm through. "In another home a ceramic tile floor had a half inch border of sub flooring showing around the perimeter. When the owner complained, the builder's representative had replied, 'Well, what do you expect, it's not a custom job.'" Another purchaser, Dave Thompson, Walton Court, said, "Grand Oaks people came to my home; they were concerned about my concerns...1 arn satisfied with the response from Grand Oak Homes." 'I had 36 items on my list; some were correc- ted. 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She, like others, was given several dif- ferent closing dates. On the fourth one she moved in only to discover the hot water pipes had been forgotten and the building inspec- tor wouldn't pass her house. Describing her problems with having no home to go to, having to take her children out of school to live outside the area, and storing her furniture with the new owners of her previous home, she said, "I was in tears for weeks...Buying a new home is supposed to be a happy time." But Tina Atkinson, Sugar Maple, said, "When our new house wasn't ready Grand Oaks put us up in a home until ours was ready. We would buy another home from Grand Oaks." One man said he had already bought his second home from Grand Oaks. He chose a business in Whitby and said, "Grand Oak Homes are a bonus for me." Also speaking at the meeting were Sam Wilson, an executive member of the Toronto Home Builders Association and Kent Young, president of the Durham Home Builders Association. Wilson, who is also vice president of ¿A MIN-METRICS 4.5 L is about a gallon. NURSERYSCHOOL For children 2 to 5 years old Presents DATE: Wed., July 31/85 TIME: 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. ADDRESS: 309 Beech St. W. Off of Brock behind Stokleys/Coby -opportunity to see our school -our class curriculum to meet the teachers and enjoy the displays -opportunity to register your child at reasonable prices -refreshments will be served IT wil 1 w oo SIMCOE ST. N. RITSON RD. N. M WILSON RD. N. INFORMATION cim'i, for developer Costain Homes, said the after his (Hyde) hide." association was concer- Following are the 10 ned about Whitby and suggested procedures the industry as a whole. for builders (in brief) "We are prepared to put compiled by Town staff in time with you (coun- after consultation with cil) and try to come to a builders and builders' resolution that is accep- associations. table to the town. One week before When asked how he closing the builder and felt about the 10 the purchaser will con- recommendations sug- duct New Home gested by the public Warranty inspection works department, and builders' respon- Wilson said, "Our com- sibilities re performan- pany follows most of ces and maintenance them already." will be told to the pur- Young, too, said he chaser along with his would like to work with responsibilities. the town "to resolve as At the initial inspec- many problems as we tion, builder and pur- can." chaser will sign a list of Grand Oaks is a agreed deficiencies member of the Toronto which will be corrected Home Builders' before occupancy if Association, not the possible. Durham group. Prior to occupancy, Joe Drumm, coun- the builder will ask the cillor for the east ward Town for a final inspec- where Grand Oaks is tion. If approved, the largely located, said, "I purchaser may move in. haven't had four com- If deficiencies cannot be plaints about the seven corrected before oc- other builders in my cupancy, the builder ward. Of ail the builders and purchaser will in town, the most com- agree to a date when plaints corne from they will be completed. Grand Oaks and Coun- When this deadline has try Lane Estates (which passed, the builder will has the same' notify the purchaser in president). writing and schedule a Throughout the new completion date. presentations com- Further lists at two plainants said they were months and at a year concerned about late may compile new closing dates, lists of deficiencies, not repairs that were lost or already covered on the disregarded, changes in original. Homeowners personnel which or builders who are resulted in a breakdown unable to come to in communications as an agreement after the well as a series of an- two-month-list deadline noying minor or major is past should notify the defects to the houses. town. Offers by Hyde to buy The builder will sup- back their houses were ply the purchaser with a no help, they said, they list of dated, corrected were too committed by deficiencies, when they then. are completed. Even most of those At Mayor Bob Atter- who were happy with sley's suggestion the their homes said they recommendations were still needed some ad- tabled until July 15 for justments but were further study by the willing to wait. publie works depar- Bugelli later said the tment, assisted by the service was not Toronto Home Builders representative of the Association. ,-n*o-.à usiar onf6-c kind of satisfaction they should get. "The homeowners are reasonable people. They handled themselves very well...with the kind of things I have seen they should have been