Building inspections of common areas are very common in new buildings whose residents want to make use of the inspection period the contractor owes them by law. In this case, a new, upscale building in central Israel called in Arad Bedek Bayit to inspect the common areas, including the building's parking garage.
The garage walls are wet, and the residents' storage rooms will soon be full of mold as well. Unfortunately, this is not a construction defect that is simple to repair: the ground around the garage walls has to be dug out and the walls waterproofed again, a heavy and expensive job! But because it falls under the contractor's liability (the inspection period), it will be done at his expense.
Had the residents not called in a home inspection (bedek bayit) engineer and had the building inspected, the warranty period might have run out and the residents would have been left with a heavy bill. If this construction defect is neglected, the concrete will eventually have to be strengthened.
The engineers of Arad Bedek Bayit, led by building engineer Ron Arad, whom courts appoint as their own expert on construction defects. The company has been inspecting apartments and buildings since 2001. Engineer Ron Arad · More about the company