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Originally Posted by Kavvy
Why is it assumed that people cut more corners when companies are profiting and making lots of money?
Wouldn't the counter argument be that in downturn companies are struggling, people buying the homes are struggling and corners get cut?
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The cutting of corners has less to do with money and everything to do with the time taken to build and the availability of skilled trades.
On top of that the assumption that building standards and codes have improved construction isn't always true, codes developed in the east for cold but dry regions were wholesale adopted in BC in the eighties and were lousy for the regions warm wet conditions, virtually all buildings constructed here in the late eighties and early nineties have moisture problems due to oversealing, it's cost billions to fix them, many have had to be demolished.