Text/Zhuifeng
"Fine decoration is like a scumbag. How beautiful the model room is, but how disappointing it is when the house is taken over." Speaking of fine decoration, I believe many buyers have bitter tears and have encountered all kinds of heart-wrenching things. Problem - "floor door", "cardboard door", "design door", "mansion leaking door"...
No, in the recent period, a series of problems have arisen in the finely decorated rooms!
Case 1: Double-sided tape for ceramic tiles
The Paper reported that an owner of a well-decorated house in a community in Wuhan, Hubei Province, discovered that the tiles on his kitchen wall were pasted with double-sided tape, and the tiles fell off when he picked them up. In addition to the kitchen wall tiles being pasted with double-sided tape, this well-decorated house also has many problems such as the lack of leakage protection for sockets and the use of plastic bags to cover leaking water pipes. In the face of the owner's rights protection and public opinion exposure, the developer of the building responded that the kitchen wall tiles were originally affixed with cement, but later fell off. The construction unit was forced to use double-sided tape to paste them under pressure to deliver the house. There are two households in the entire community. This situation has now been rectified.
"In the future, ceramic tile manufacturers may directly produce tiles with double-sided tape. This is a disruptive technology that changes the history of architecture." "The ones that fall off are those with double-sided tape, and the ones that don't fall off are those with 502 ", "Are you all so indifferent to life? Fortunately, this was discovered in advance, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous"... Some netizens commented on this.
Such a god-level operation, are you sure you are not challenging the bottom line of the owner’s IQ?
Case 2: Ceramic tiles and many other problems
An owner of a well-decorated house in a real estate development in Chengdu, Sichuan, complained on the Sina "Black Cat Complaint" platform. During the house inspection on the owner's open day, he found a total of 78 problems, large and small, in the house he bought. The main questions are:
First, the floor tiles and wall tiles are hollow. There are six hollow wall tiles in the kitchen alone. In the kitchen aisle, if the wall tiles fall during an earthquake, they can easily injure children, posing a huge safety hazard; the second is the living balcony. The floor drain and the faucet are one on the left and one on the right of the balcony. The design is seriously unreasonable; third, the gap between the door frame and the wall is large, and the cement inside the wall can be seen with the naked eye through the gap; fourth, the wooden floor has a large gap, and the three bedrooms have wooden floors. The four corners of the body will flutter as soon as you step on them.It is gray; fifth, the skirting material is of poor quality and will fall off with just a slight kick; sixth, there is water accumulation on the balcony of the living room and holes in the floor tiles; seventh, the living room and bedroom are uneven.
How did it pass the inspection when it was so shoddily made?
Case 3: Prying open the floor tiles was full of dirt
Someone exposed it through a video on the Internet. The owner of a well-decorated house in Xi'an, Shaanxi pried open the floor tiles and found that the cushion was entirely made of sand. Apparently there was more sand and insufficient cement, or the sand and cement were not mixed evenly. Or even no cement at all. In this regard, some professionals said that this situation is suspected of cutting corners.
What is puzzling is that after the matter was exposed, the developer did not give a corresponding explanation and explanation immediately, nor did it make a public response to the resolution of related problems, but proposed to sue the video publisher.
With such a weird mentality, how can it be possible to build a quality furnished house?
Case 4: Wires exposed in concrete
An owner of a well-decorated house in a building in Hefei, Anhui Province left a message in the "Local Leaders Message Board" column of People's Daily Online, saying that the building had serious corners-cutting behavior. Instead of wrapping the wires in pipes, the wires were buried directly in the concrete, which was safe. The hidden danger is serious.
By cutting corners in this way, is the safety of the people's lives considered child's play?
Case 5: A room is not decorated
An owner of a well-decorated house in a real estate in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, complained on Sina's "Black Cat Complaints" platform. The property was delivered in early November, and one of the hundreds of fine-decorated house owners actually had a room delivered in rough form. When purchasing these houses, they were clearly informed that they were all fully furnished houses, and the purchase contract clearly stated that they were fully furnished houses. Why were there rough houses when the houses were delivered?
Could it be that such blatant trampling of user rights and disregard for contract law is due to pressure from the construction deadline?
Case 6: Converted to a rough house for sale
Since the beginning of this year, due to the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, the property market has continued to cool down, and many properties have become difficult to sell, especially in some distant urban areas, where homogeneity is serious and competing products are clustered together. In order to quickly destock, a real estate developer in Wuhan, Hubei Province sold the houses that had been advertised and promised to be fully decorated and delivered in rough form, causing strong dissatisfaction among a large number of owners who had purchased finely decorated houses in the real estate in the early stage, which further triggered a large-scale rights protection campaign. These owners collectively wrote a letter of appeal asking the developer to refund the renovation money.
What kind of credibility can you have if you can turn your hands into clouds and rain like this?
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There is no need to give another example. There are endless rights protection incidents caused by various problems in finishing houses. Even in the "Local Leaders Message Board" column of People's Daily Online, there are a lot of them, and they all happened recently. This shows how great the negative impact of hard-decorated rooms is.
Since the beginning of 2020, the logic of finely decorated houses has undergone certain changes. Recently, an article published by the Red Weekly of the Securities Market entitled "Changes in the logic of fine decoration have triggered sector valuation cuts, and the concentration of the "three ceramic tile heroes" can be expected in the future." It is believed that "during the epidemic situation at the beginning of the year and the 'Three Ceramic Tile Masters' in the middle of the year, Under the superimposed influence of the red line, real estate companies have fallen into a battle to defend their survival. In order to speed up project turnover, developers in various places have successively changed the originally planned finely decorated houses into rough houses for sale, which directly triggered the systematic adjustment of the finely decorated industry chain." , which has had a certain impact on the revenue and stock prices of listed ceramic tile companies.
In addition to the previously mentioned case of a certain real estate in Wuhan, Hubei that was converted into rough decoration for sale, there are many similar cases. Here is another example. For example, in a building in Changsha, Hunan, the mixed sale of finely decorated houses and rough houses in the same building resulted in the loss of the interests of more than a hundred owners. To put it bluntly, the developer of the real estate deceived the owners who purchased houses at the price of finely decorated houses. For this reason, relevant owners reported to the media that if the developer informed them that they could choose between fine decoration and rough decoration when they purchased the house, they would never choose to buy a fine decoration house.
In the short term, there are indeed some developers who have converted the planned hard-decorated houses into rough houses for sale; but in the long-term, hard-decorated houses and even prefabricated buildings must be an unstoppable development trend.
This is just like "The change in the logic of fine decoration caused the sector to kill valuations and increase the concentration of "Tile Three"Jie’s article “A promising future” said, “Although the logic of short-term fine decoration has been questioned to some extent, the trend of fine decoration in the medium and long term will not change. The essence of the “Three Red Lines” is to promote the transformation of developers, that is, from relying on increased leverage and fast turnover to earn land price differences, to relying on product strength to obtain brand premiums. The development strength of real estate companies will most likely only be reflected through good decoration, design and services in the future. Therefore, the "three red lines" are beneficial to fine decoration and engineering building materials including ceramic tiles in the medium and long term. The short-term correction just provides opportunities for long-term layout. ”
To prevent consumers from rejecting finely decorated houses, real estate companies must start from the source and solve key problems such as inferior materials, cutting corners, rush to meet deadlines, and shoddy workmanship. Otherwise, hard-decorated housing will only become a tool for real estate companies to earn unreasonable profits, which is contrary to the original intention of the country to actively promote the hard-decorated housing policy. Only when real estate companies ensure that there is no problem with the quality of the decoration itself, and continue to strengthen after-sales services, can finely decorated houses gradually become popular among the people.
Of course, it is not enough to rely solely on the awareness of real estate companies to improve the quality of finely decorated houses. It is particularly important for the government to strengthen supervision.
Author: Zhuifeng
