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Sometimes it's been a pain in the butt hounding them all the time, but I have to say i've been ok with Mattamy for the most part.

The only outstanding issue we have is with some of our cabinets. Our upstairs vanity STILL doesn't have doors, and the side of our one counter in the kitchen has a HUGE crack down the side. Other than that, we had two major leaks, both were fixed before we moved in. Well, except for the one in the living room. It was fixed, but we waited more than a month before that part of the ceiling was "popcorn-ed".

Oh, and this is for Village Home owners/soon-to-be owners. Make sure you have your home inspector check the insulation in the attic. Ours was too thin, and i'm sure we're not the only ones.

We are having lots of issues with Sterling II, which haven't been fixed since March 2008.

Hopefully our Wellington in Phase 2 will have less issues as its not factory built.

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Archana & Ravi

Based on what you're saying, the factory homes did not turn out that sweet of a deal they were supposed to by not being exposed to the elements.

However, they end up with multi issues due to transportation. right?

Can you explain what sort of problems these homes are facing?

Our music teacher family is not moving to their HVE new home after closing day because according to them it has too many issues Mattamy must fix for them first. They have something like eight weeks before people are moving into their “old” non-HVE Mattamy home so they choose to stay in “old” home bit longer.
We didn't ask about details. If I remember correct their home model was factory build.

Wow, I'm starting to get worried about my factory build home in phase 5a. Are there any good experences with the factory build homes? We should start a poll.

Are all the new homes in Milton factory built by Mattamy?

I think that homes on less than 50 ft lots are being built in factory

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Archana & Ravi

My understanding is that you cannot sue Mattamy through the court you have to go through the Tarion Warranty program first which is in the contract you sign. The process with Tarion can drag on for years.

I asked this question to a Mattamy guy about the quality. I have the same feeling that everything is rushed, no quality in anything. I am in HVe Ph-1 and mattamy guy said that Milton didn't give Mattamy permit on time so everything was delayed. Since mattamy couldn't extend the deadlines for the houses, they rushed everything. I have 150 items on my 30 day list and I didn't even get a Inspector. I sure am gonna get one for the 1year warranty. A sloppy job by mattamy and most of all the whole house is extremely extremely dirty.

Our house was built on site, and the quality of workmanship is very poor. It comes down to lack of good trades - I've recently talked to Mattamy construction office, who told me that now it's that bad that they hire people with 2 weeks experience to do drywall. They had to take down one wall in our house. Houses in slums of Rio De Janeiro have walls that are more straight comparing to Mattamy houses

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A major problem with the factory built home is not the home itself, but the foundation (concrete wall) that the home is placed on

Mattamy seems to think that a few shimes will fix the un-levelness between home and concrete....GAP CENTRAL

well ive seen foundations poured with a 2 inch slope in a span of about 8 ft, well guess what?

MAJOR SETTLEMENT ISSUES

you know the rest of the story

Can you choose not to have your house factory built? I'm kind of worried now after reading about all the issues that people are having with their factory built homes.

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