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Originally Posted by Slava
Can I just ask a dumb question of guys like 4x4 and SportsJunky (amongst others) who know about these things? Why do these problems happen so often for condos but not for other buildings? From the outside, as a casual observer, I just don't understand why others aren't facing these issues? (maybe they are and it's not reported though?)
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Different building code requirements for the different building types causes some of the discrepancy between a lot of bigger commercial, and residential buildings.
For example, if a residential building is 4 floors or less (I believe (I don't have my building code in front of me)), the entire building can be wood frame construction.
Other times, it's developers either cutting corners to save costs, and doing the absolute code minimum (which a lot of times, is barely suitable).
Finally, during the building boom, around the time this building was constructed, there was a huge boom in construction jobs, meaning a lot of developers had trouble securing quality sub-contractors and were under major time crunches.