The game remains the same ..

[Grapenuts]

Homeowner acting as "contractor"....contractors have to know the codes....building inspector isn't there to play teacher, just to inforce the codes.The days of "sure use this or do this are long gone.

[BigFish]

Well Tagger is a union carpenter so......pretty sure he has a grasp of code. Pretty sure he was not going to make a door out of popsicle sticks and Elmers! I submitted architect quality drawings for our mud room addition complete with measurements the whole nine yards!! Inspector comes for the rough inspection and informs me we need a landing at the top of the stairs outside the back door of the mud room!!! Now I ask you....is it or is it not the inspectors job to look over the drawings that THEY REQUEST" to make sure that everything is as it should be???? It was a simple mud room.....childs play compared to building a complete structure yet the inspector dropped the ball.....could not execute his job to provide me the service for which we do pay the permit fees!!!!!! I wanted to crush his F'in skull the dumb bastard!!!!!!

[Slipknot]

Originally Posted by BigFish

Well Tagger is a union carpenter so......pretty sure he has a grasp of code. Pretty sure he was not going to make a door out of popsicle sticks and Elmers! I submitted architect quality drawings for our mud room addition complete with measurements the whole nine yards!! Inspector comes for the rough inspection and informs me we need a landing at the top of the stairs outside the back door of the mud room!!! Now I ask you....is it or is it not the inspectors job to look over the drawings that THEY REQUEST" to make sure that everything is as it should be???? It was a simple mud room.....childs play compared to building a complete structure yet the inspector dropped the ball.....could not execute his job to provide me the service for which we do pay the permit fees!!!!!! I wanted to crush his F'in skull the dumb bastard!!!!!!

I always wondered why they need drawings if they are only going to inspect the work done.

[Tagger]

I've been doing commercial building for 27yrs. now ,, Boston Carpenter... Did 12 yrs .. residential / builders before that but everything has changed so much . I have to take a class to renew my Supervisors license. From what I hear everything is changing again . Including building framing ... We are getting greener .. I won't know until I take the course but heard something as easy as framing an outside corner that use to require 4 studs (or 3 and scraps) they want you to do with 2 studs .. wood equal heat loss .. Any work I do now is steel stud ,, screw gun ,, powder activated tools . 58 and I'm still learning .

[Grapenuts]

Down here they won't talk to a homeowner at a meeting or in the office....they don't have time for the 40?'s a homeowner ask's...codes have gotten way to complex to take up what little time they do have trying to explain all the do's an dont's as the line is forming out the door....they only want to deal with contractors and their getting good at it pushing out everyone else out the door.

BUY THE CODE BOOK.....it's all in there, then some...THEN get all the new updates as they come out....no such thing as a shack or cottage anymore.

ps....inspectors can and do change their minds..good luck fighting that one.

plywood can be used if it's a single sheet covering an opening,BUT if you butt 2 sheets together to cover an opening,that won't fly.Like a garage door or a big picture window..then you need to spend big bucks for a metal storm panel...
no more leaving kraft faced insulation uncovered in between rafters in a storage space either..has to be covered with sheetrock in case of fire..it goes on an on.$$$$$$$

[Tagger]

payed for the permit .. then it's 40 dollars an inspection ..framing ,, insulation ,,,sheet rock ,,, my doors .. plenty of time for that .

[BigFish]

We do not get charged for every inspection here in Hanover...just a single fee! Code book, schmode book! You can have the code book and state guidelines...whatever and then the power hungry inspectors make their own rules!!! I have seen it done with Fire Prevention when I was installing oil tanks! Nevermind they are statewide rules and regs......they make up their own!!

[Slipknot]

maybe I'll move to Maine

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by BigFish

We do not get charged for every inspection here in Hanover...just a single fee! Code book, schmode book! You can have the code book and state guidelines...whatever and then the power hungry inspectors make their own rules!!! I have seen it done with Fire Prevention when I was installing oil tanks! Nevermind they are statewide rules and regs......they make up their own!!

Job security. The more times they have to go back and do follow-up inspections, the more perceived validity there is to their job. While I do believe there is *some* reasonable need for building inspectors, it seems that most are allowed to operate as mavericks that create their own rules and operate on a whim.

[BigFish]

Originally Posted by Grapenuts

Homeowner acting as "contractor"....contractors have to know the codes....building inspector isn't there to play teacher, just to inforce the codes.The days of "sure use this or do this are long gone.

Pretty sure this is exactly what a building inspectors job is?