For a builder's one-year warranty on new construction, is it better to compile a list of items and address them all at once?

Keep the running list, but report items as they come up instead of sitting on them until the deadline. Waiting has two downsides: more homeowners get in line ahead of you as the warranty period winds down, and you risk an item slipping outside the coverage window entirely. Builders move slowly on warranty work, and the queue only gets longer near expiration. We know of a two-year-old home carrying a ten-year structural warranty where an inspection flagged a hole in the attic firewall, and the builder still has not come back to repair it. That is exactly why you document everything and push on the timeline rather than assuming warranty work handles itself. The process that works: - Photograph each item. - Submit it formally so there is a dated record. - Follow up until it is actually fixed.