After enduring a full winter and summer, your newly constructed home has undergone significant expansion, contraction and settling. The Tarion Year-End (11-Month) form is your final opportunity to legally require your builder to repair foundation shrinkage cracks, severe drywall nail pops, and exterior drainage failures that simply did not manifest during your earlier.
As the ground freezes and thaws, localized grading often shifts to pull surface water toward your foundation & roofing structures settle under heavy snow loads. We rigorously document these structural shifts and hidden seasonal damages so you do not inherit the repair bills for inevitable new-build settlement.
While early warranty phases address immediate functional and cosmetic issues, the Year-End inspection is specifically designed to catch long-term structural shifting. This is your definitive deadline to report foundation cracks, grading failures, and seasonal damage before your primary builder coverage legally expires.
We provide the exhaustive, professional documentation required to hold your builder accountable for structural shifting and seasonal damage before your primary warranty expires.
After a full freeze-thaw cycle, poured concrete inevitably settles. We thoroughly inspect your basement walls and exterior foundation for significant shrinkage cracks, parging deterioration, and signs of structural shifting.
The soil backfilled around your new build compresses heavily over the first year. We evaluate your exterior grading to ensure the ground hasn't sunken in a way that actively directs surface water and snowmelt back toward your foundation.
As lumber dries and contracts, your home's framing shifts. We meticulously document severe drywall nail pops, separation at wall-to-ceiling joints (truss uplift), and stress cracks around doorways to secure builder repairs.
As the primary structure settles, the frames housing your exterior doors and windows frequently shift out of square. We test operational mechanics to ensure locks engage properly and weatherstripping hasn't failed due to structural sagging.
Heavy snow loads, ice accumulation, and high winds heavily test your home's exterior. We inspect visible roofing materials, exterior masonry, and siding to document displaced shingles or mortar cracking caused by thermal expansion.
The 11-Month form is your final safety net. We help you legally escalate any unresolved functional defects or cosmetic repairs that your builder ignored from your previous PDI and 30-Day Tarion submissions.
The 11-Month mark is your final opportunity to submit claims under the comprehensive one-year warranty. After your home endures a full Canadian freeze-thaw cycle, significant structural settling occurs. We document new foundation shrinkage cracks, severe drywall nail pops, and exterior drainage failures before the builder is legally off the hook.
While the 30-Day form captures early functional and mechanical failures once you move in, the Year-End form focuses heavily on seasonal shifting. It captures defects that take months to manifest, such as exterior backfill sinking, roofing issues from winter snow loads, and wood framing shrinkage (truss uplift).
Absolutely. The soil backfilled against your new foundation takes about a year to fully compress. We evaluate the exterior grading to ensure the ground hasn't sunken to a point where it actively directs snowmelt and surface water back toward your basement walls.
We strongly recommend booking your evaluation during the 10th or early 11th month of possession. Tarion enforces absolute deadlines. Booking early ensures you have our comprehensive report in hand with plenty of time to accurately populate your final MyHome portal submission.
Yes. The Year-End form acts as your ultimate escalation safety net. If your builder ignored legitimate repair requests from your PDI or 30-Day submissions, we will re-document those unresolved defects to force mandatory conciliation.
