Two years ago, CTV Calgary's consumer watch reporter, Lea Williams-Doherty, did a story about a home that contained numerous deficiencies, including two safety code violations for no stair railings, when the home owners took possession. The defects were fixed but now a similar story has come to light about the same builder.

In May of 2006, Simon Bunyan took possession of a home built by Alanridge Homes - which was operating under the same roof as Jager Homes but stopped building new homes in 2006.

Bunyan counted more than 60 deficiencies in his luxury home. Many were relatively minor but two were potentially deadly. Fortunately, those were caught by city inspectors during the final inspection.

The first deficiency was a furnace exhaust pipe hanging, disconnected, in Bunyan's utility room. That means carbon monoxide would have pumped straight into the house when the furnace was on.

The second deficiency had to do with the exterior furnace exhaust. The exhaust pipe exited the home only inches from the fresh-air intake valve. That means some of the carbon monoxide exhaust would get sucked right back into the home when the furnace was on.

Though the problems were eventually fixed, the fact that two potentially deadly defects were built into his home, left only to be discovered by city inspectors, was frightening for Bunyan. "It's scary that there aren't more safety checks to protect the safety of families whose business is not to know what code is for venting or to know that this pipe has to be glued in a certain way," says Bunyan.

Lea Williams-Doherty tried to contact Alanridge Homes to ask how this could happen but found the only operating entity left is Alanridge Warranty Services. Williams-Doherty met with warranty service staff and gave her a letter stating that "Alanridge hired professionals as subcontractors...that the city carried out inspections...and that the deficiencies were corrected." The letter went on to state that Bunyan's home has been completed to Alberta new home warranty's sasitsfaction.

But Bunyan isn't satisfied and says doubts still plague him. "In the back of my mind there's always concerns about what could happen next About what else is going to break, or what else could go wrong with the house," says Bunyan.