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Originally Posted by Drybrain
Everywhere (or at least Toronto, Alberta, and Vancouver (and Vancouver again).
Leakage seems to be the main issue, though in the past few summers, glass panes in Toronto condo towers have frequently popped out of their fittings on hot days and plummeted to the street below.
Given that condos in these cities, and increasingly in Halifax, are the last reasonably affordable home ownership option for non-wealthy people in inner-city areas, it's a real problem if these homes are second-rate. (Though I bet some of these problems also plague lower end suburban starter homes.) |
Wow! Panes of glass falling on pedestrians below!
Looks like plenty of cases of it out there:
http://news.nationalpost.com/tag/falling-glass
Also, relevant to the thread topic:
http://www.bnn.ca/News/2014/10/14/Ex...rban-slum.aspx
Regarding suburban starter homes, I recall during the building boom in Halifax, hearing many stories of poor quality workmanship and other problems with homes built by some of the companies who were basically mass-producing them at the time. I even heard that some of these larger companies would start smaller companies to bang up a bunch of houses and then fold them before the complaints started rolling in. Not sure how much truth there was to those claims, as it was all word-of-mouth.
