Your construction
contract should have some language on warranty and the term and
conditions. Also check with your State office of the Attorney General
or the Contractors License Board as to any required warranties
that the builder must provide by State law. There may be other
warranties expressed or implied that may be required pursuant to
State and common law.Even if there is no language in your contract
stating such, there may be warranties that must be honored. In
addition there are various manufacturers and building material
warranties provided through your builder but given directly by
the respective manufacturers such as appliances, roofing, siding,
windows etc. Be sure to get all the warranty documents from your
builder. There is also a Federal law called the Magnuson-Moss Warranty
Act that protects the consumer against faulty building products.
You should have completed a punchlist with your builder during
a final walk-through and acceptance inspection. If you did, then
the builder must fix the items that he is responsible for. If a
punchlist was not completed, you need to do this right away. Even
if you missed a few things that may appear later (that the builder
is responsible for within the warranty period), you are still within
your rights to have the builder do the corrective work.
