The provincial government has issued a guide to help home buyers better gauge the quality of a prospective home and determine what's covered under warranty.
The Residential Construction Performance Guide provides advance information that sets out the minimum required performance of new homes covered by home warranty insurance in B.C.
Warranty providers have agreed to use the guide to help determine whether or not a defect claim is covered by their policies of home warranty insurance.
The guide explains how warranty providers will evaluate claims for possible defects in design, labour or materials in new homes.
It outlines more than 200 possible defects that are searchable online - from windows that malfunction to driveway or interior concrete floors that have cracked, or siding that has buckled.
It's available on the Homeowner Protection Office website at www.hpo.bc.ca.
