It's not just the technique, it's slip shod crap too!
My boss bought a house that's 6 years old. They didn't bother to do the flashing around the windows so now they leak everytime it rains and blows. I think he's got a home warranty with it but it'd still aggravate the h*ll out of me because the morons couldn't do the job right the first time.
Now he's getting all new siding put on...he caught 'em triming the windows with particle board fercryinoutloud!
Now you understand why we're doing the work on our addition ourselves! It may take twice as long to get the job done, but it will be done right! SSQ is actually over-engineering the thing, for example, the code allows deflection tolerances of something like 360 in the floors, but he's doing more like 600. We're spanning a 23' space with no center supports, so we're using the engineered I-joists and putting them close together if needed in certain areas to support the floor above. He's looking at it from the viewpoint of having 20 or 30 people over, and not wanting the floor to start sagging!
As he quotes Red Green from time to time, "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy!". I'm lucky cause I gots BOTH!
OT: your boss's experience fairly well mirrors many of the newer homes in JoCo that my co-workers have bought. An amazing amount of redo work for homes 10 years old or less. Truly astounding amounts of work needed to be done, to repair just such mis-deeds.
Suziq: Good Morning. There are numerous examples of them through the older KC neighborhoods. Our old lumber yard office (now a photography studio and tailor shop) actually had some of the catalog pictures on their walls, some with addresses. The interior design office up the street used to be the mill shop where they made the windows for our home and others around town. Our doors, window trim and interior trim is 'southern hard pine'. At least 10 rings, often more, to the inch. One fellow in town wanted a 'big lot' he bought the adjacent homes and moved them. 50-55 feet was the typical width-but they were 150-180 feet deep. Alleys for the garages.
Jenb, well, aesthics aside, it's darn practical. Maintenance can eat one's lunch in more than one way. Stained log exterior is available, seen a few of them, they look quite nice with 'hugh' porches.
Corin, I'm with you on the painting windows.
Well, the osage is calling out my name, got to get back to making yellow shavings.
BBL.