My Home Building Help’s Philosophy on Quality and Cost



Through training and education of our subcontractor team working and the MyHomebuildingHelp staff, we can increase quality without raising the cost of the home. Conversly, just throwing a more expensive material into our homes does not necessarily produce quality. An expensive material installed incorrectly is worse than a cheap one installed correctly. It is the job of My Home Building Help and their subcontractor team to maximize quality and return on investment for you, our customer.

Because of the Triangle market's rapid growth, many builders have resorted to using low-bid, unskilled labor.  And in many cases, their labor pool is held to very few standards by their equally unskilled supervisor.  Failure issues due to inexperienced subcontractors and superintendents are VERY common (Just do a word search on "construction defects").  My Home Building Help has taken steps to educate specific subcontractors on specific details, we add those details to their contracts and your plans, and then WE check them before the home is completed and the subcontractor can be paid. Possible failure is avoided and you now get what you paid for. We do this because we know what affects the durability of the home and even the health of the occupants. And again, if it is an upgraded material, it is nice to know your added cost DID affect the quality of your home.



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        We believe in W. Edward Deming’s synopsis of quality:    Quality = ----------------------
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Here is one of dozens of examples of things I have experienced and will make sure you avoid: Some people pay a builder as much as $1500 extra for a higher rated efficiency heating and cooling unit only to have installed by an poorly trained technician that was never held to any standard nor did he have his work checked. They paid $1500 more for a SEER 14 unit that functions less efficiently than a properly installed 10 SEER unit. Think of some of the other upgrades that $1500 could have paid for. Not only did they not get what they paid for initially, but this will continue to cost the homeowner for the life of the system and can lead to comfort and health issues for the occupants. 



                            “You can not inspect quality into the product” –W. Edward Deming-

Inspections alone do not change the quality of the product or change behavior of the people doing the work. Simple checklists and inspections act as band-aids and cannot take the place of an overall commitment to education, training, and conforming to an agreed upon set of standards. If outcome is tracked and the results are shared with all to improve performance, quality is achieved.


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