"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Henry Blackmoore wrote:


I have personally witnessed whole blocks of residential housing being
built
without anybody that can speak English building them. Pseudo
electricians
without any form of license or proof of qualifications, pseudo
plumbers etc..
etc.. and these homes have NUMEROUS code violations.

How can a proper home be built by unqualified workers who can't possibly
read the National Electrical Code because they can't speak English and
their own education from their native country is on the grade-school
level?

Taking jobs that nobody wants? Hardly. However a qualified,
intelligent
and skilled electrician would certainly look elsewhere rather than work
for the watered down peanut wages that most homebuilders offer. Home
builders get away with these insulting wages (and code violations) by
exploiting immigrant workers AND taking advantage of over-worked
and underpaid city code enforcement officers any way that they can.


The reality is, most homebuilders (single-family houses, townhouses, and
low-rise apartments, the "stick-built" stuff), do not pay wages. They
pay via what one might call "piece work." So much to frame a house, so
much to wire a house, et cetera. And *that* is one reason why why most
skilled craftsmen have nothing to do with the contractors who build
houses.





And due to the increasing number of construction defect claims stemming
mainly from residential construction, some of the large national insurance
companies are no longer insuring construction contractors and builders who
primarily do residential construction (or a residential construction
exclusion is provided on the general liability and completed operations
coverage's).