u/Perfect-Original-846

Our new build home has been uninhabitable since the builder handed the house over nearly 2 years ago. Hundreds of code failures documented by engineers and inspectors which may still lead to demolition. Custom build, $700 psf. Tarion are paying $150 a Day while house is Toxic and we can’t move in. Curious for others who have gone through this if Tarion paid emergency accommodation immediately or if there were long delays.

New build home in Ontario with issues. We have leaking walls due failed housewrap and we have vapour barrier failures allowing the water into the electrical wiring. We believe wiring wasn’t installed by a licenced electrician. We’re tearing it all down to fix it. If we did nothing and had a fatal accident due electrocution where would liability lay? With company directors or employees who fitted electrical or those that put the holes in the house allowing water in?

We're finally back at zero with the house, we think we have all issues and defects covered. Found an engineer to do the drawings missed and fix the framing issues to stop the house tearing apart. So we're finally up to the contractors taking our 1 year old house down to almost nothing and starting again. Starting with framing on the foundation, whats the best order to do all this:

• Foundation digging up and resealing
• Basement slab cut open around perimeter, vapour barrier resealed and basement floor sealed
• All insulation in basement walls replaced due mold and basement framing cleaned
• All siding and strapping removed
• Windows removed
• Doors removed
• Water damaged sills replaced
• Window RO sealed correctly
• All exterior rigid insulation removed and replaced
• Housewrap removed and replaced
• Leaking windows and doors all replaced
• Damaged Metal roofing and trim all removed and replaced
• Roofing membrane removed and replaced.

That's the exterior, is there anything we would do in a different order getting a house to lockup other than if we were just building the house from scratch? I'm assuming get foundation sorted, exterior then interior and go from there.

Interior needs all drywall off, vapour barrier removed, batts insulation removed and the wiring all checked by ESA and repaired. We need to keep the water out of the wiring so the sooner we can get to a sealed building envelope the better.

Thoughts? Still seems a marginally better way forward than demolishing and starting again.

Need an Engineer in Ontario to look at some incomplete build plans. Can any civil Engineer do this or is it a specific modular Build experienced person we would best need. It was an Ontario licensed Engineer that originally drew them up.