Builders train contractors the same way, said Kyle Carter, president of Kyle Carter Homes. Builders have their own standards of quality for everything from lumber to concrete and paint. Helping the contractor learn those standards and maintain them in the building process takes time. But even the best subcontractors get a close look from a builder when they finish a house. We hire an outside engineer to come in and look at the home.
Developers watch the builders too.
When the process works right, contractors watch their crews, builders watch the contractors, developers watch the builders and inspectors from the city and the county watch everybody. Still, Joe Diaz has a cracked concrete floor in the bathroom of his Isla del Sol home. Whether it's because of shoddy building, poor materials or simple mistakes, a building defect in a new home is nothing to laugh about. More than 1,000 new homes are built in Bakersfield every year and the people who buy those homes expect a quality product. According to the Bakersfield office of the Better Business Bureau, only a few complaints have been filed in recent years against big Bakersfield builders like Coleman, Centex, Kyle Carter and U.S. Home.