About 11-Month Warranty Inspections
If you are approaching the end of your builder's one-year warranty, the clock matters more than anything else. Once that warranty closes, every defect in the house becomes your expense, permanently. An 11-month inspection is the last chance to hand the builder a documented list while they are still obligated to act on it.
Central Texas new construction goes up fast, and speed leaves marks. Across Kyle, Buda, New Braunfels, and the growth corridors around Austin and San Antonio, the same defects appear again and again: attic insulation that stops short of the eaves, missing kick-out flashing where a roof meets a wall, HVAC condensate lines with no secondary drain or pan, grading left at builder rough so water runs toward the slab instead of away from it, and nail pops and drywall cracking that appeared once the house went through its first full seasonal cycle.
None of that is unusual, and none of it means you bought a bad house. It means a production home has settled, dried, and moved for a year, and the problems that were invisible at closing are now visible to somebody who knows where to look.
Schedule at around month ten. That leaves time to receive the report, submit the list to your builder, and have them schedule and complete the work before the warranty period closes. Waiting until month twelve almost never works.
