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Originally Posted by Akinari
100% this.
My "den" is more like a sauna, no ventilation and is the warmest room in the unit by a significant margin. The developer calls it a den, but one of the trades who came to adjust some settings on my heat pump said it's just a storage room, as the city specifies how much storage space units need to have, so they put in this tiny ass space that's not really a storage room, but definitely not a den, yet labelled as a den.
Modern floorplans are just fucked.
What I'm curious about is, why almost every single new condo has their walls and ceilings crack within the first year, whereas condos built even as recent as 10-15 years ago, this was not a thing? When did "drywall cracks and ceiling cracks are a normal occurrence within the first year", become a normal occurrence?
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Same building as you, a have a crack in the ceiling from one wall to the window. The homeowner’s manual said it’s due to the building “settling” and they’ll address it at the end of the first year...? Same thing for paint issues, but the paint quality is so poor I’m repainting the whole unit right now. At least the dungeon aka flex room is a little brighter this way. Also has that stupid Telus box taking up 1/4 of a wall.
I feel like the open floor plan I have makes the place feel smaller than units with comparable square footage and more... walls. My friend’s 20 year old condo in Yaletown has less square footage but seems more usable. I don’t need a kitchen running along half the unit’s entire wall. But that’s #presaleLife I guess.