Construction Materials & Product Failures

The Voice of Colorado’s Homeowners

Sullan², Sandgrund, Smith & Perczak, P.C.

Denver Building Material Failure Lawyers

Builders and developers are always looking for less expensive building materials that can do the same job as the materials they have been using for years. Often, using new materials saves builders and home owners money. However, if new building products are rushed to the market without adequate laboratory and field testing and quality control, home owners end up paying the price.

Sullan² Sandgrund, Smith & Perczak, P.C. is one of Colorado’s leading construction defect litigation law firms . Our attorneys have represented many Colorado homeowner associations and thousands of individual home owners in lawsuits seeking compensation for building material and product failures such as:

• Leaking and prematurely deteriorating roofs
• Defective shingles
• Defective plumbing
• Leaking windows and doors
• Degraded or rotted flooring
• Siding and exterior surface system failures
• Real and synthetic (EIFS) stucco installation problems
• Water intrusion of all kinds from all sources

Building material failures can be traced to lack of testing, errors in the manufacturing process, improper construction methods or application, and a failure to properly consider the interaction of the components or materials with the environment. 

Consumer Reports® has created a useful graphic alerting homeowners how to identify substandard construction.

We always advise homeowner associations and individual home owners to try work out problems with builders and developers first. But, if you have exhausted every other avenue to have the responsible parties fix the problem, our law firm can step in and provide assistance.  Our law firm strongly encourages the use of "Plan B" settlement discussions involving round-table meetings of construction experts in an effort to develop a reasonable repair plan to be funded by those responsible for the construction problems.  Homeowner associations and home owners must be careful, however, that the "Plan B" process is not misused to make "band-aid" repairs following inadequate investigation that will come back to haunt the owner years later.  No property owner wants to mistakenly rush into prematurely agreeing to a "Plan B" repair.

Attention Colorado Owners of Linford 2000 and 3000 Series Vinyl Windows and M-20 Doors: Sullan² Sandgrund, Smith & Perczak, P.C.  is handling inquiries involving concerns with Linford Brothers 2000 and 3000 Series Vinyl Windows and M-20 Doors, including concerns regarding the manner in which one or more separate windows were "mulled" (joined) into a single window assembly and concerns regarding the material holding the window panes in place within the window frame.  Please contact us for information on how to tell if you have these kinds of windows or doors in your home and what sort of deadlines may apply to pursuing any claims related to concerns about possible water damage resulting from those windows and doors.

Sullan² Sandgrund, Smith & Perczak, P.C.  regularly investigates and represents homeowners having problems with defective and leaking windows. See The Firm in the News:   "Material and Product Failures - $32.5 Million to Settle Suit Over Windows ."

Effective October 1, 2007, the firm name changed from Vanatta, Sullan, Sandgrund, Sullan and Smith, P.C. to Sullan², Sandgrund, Smith & Perczak, P.C.  Mr. Sandgrund became "Of Counsel" then as well, and Ms. Mari Perczak joined the firm on that date and become a shareholder. It will take a few months for the website to be fully updated to reflect these changes.

Our Fee

Nearly all construction defect cases that we agree to work on we handle on a contingency fee basis. This means our attorney time costs our clients nothing unless we make a recovery. Our fee equals a percentage of the recovery we obtain from the builder, developer or other responsible parties. (Under Colorado's ethical rules, even with a contingent fee, the client may be liable for certain court costs.) We try to ensure that after the attorneys’ fees are paid, the home owners have enough money left over to fix the problem. Our goal is to give home owners the house they were promised.

Learn More:

Get Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Construction Defects
Representative Construction Defect Cases
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How to Choose a Construction Defect Lawyer