Found missing hardwood floor AND a pile of garbage under my kitchen island during PDI. Is this standard for a new build?
Hey everyone,
I just did the Pre-Delivery Inspection (PDI) for my new build home and noticed something that felt off. I looked inside/underneath the kitchen island structure and discovered two things:
1 No hardwood flooring underneath it: The hardwood stops right at the edges of the island base, leaving the bare subfloor exposed underneath the unit.
2 A pile of construction garbage: There’s a bunch of leftover trash, drywall dust, and debris left sealed underneath there by the trades.
I know the garbage is obviously sloppy work and needs to be cleaned up, but what about the flooring? Is it standard practice for builders to skip flooring underneath a fixed kitchen island to save on material costs, or did they take a shortcut here? For context, the rest of the kitchen has hardwood.
I'm definitely putting the garbage cleanup on my official PDI punch list, but I want to know if I should fight them on the missing flooring under the island as well.
What are your experiences with this? Thanks in advance!