I agree. Especially about companies who hire illegal alien or the typical unskilled day laborers.

Most of the houses built nowadays in Fairfax and No. Va. for that metter are little more than tornado fodder anyway built as fast as possible so the builder can get out of town as soon as possible and the building inspector can retire before the wind starts blowing.

It is so hard to find a respectable builder or home maintinence compayies fron No. Va. that and standard or quality repairs have to be performed by companies who are willing to come from the west or southside to help you out.

How much you wanna bet something was skimped or jerry-rigged? When you get "skilled" day laborers that are hired by contractors who don't give a hoot whether they have "real" skills or not (or if they're of legal status or not), things like this happen. These houses built in the past 20 years in the DC Metro area were put up so fast, things are missed during construction (I'm sure you can walk into any house in this area and point out something that was skimped on or missed). Things don't happen like this in the Northeast where I was born....