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  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    That’s weird.

    Our insurance doesn’t even allow our inspectors to climb on the roof. We make sure the electrician doingg the wiring is licensed and has liability insurance, and we inspect the electrical panels when they’re done. The workers don’t even have to be there, and neither does the homeowner if the panel is accessible from the street-side of the fence.

    We actually prefer doing inspections without the contractors being there. It keeps them from trying to guide our inspectors away from their fuckups and prevents the contractors from trying to argue. We take pictures of the violations, upload them to the permit, and tell them to fix it.

    If they don’t, we eventually arrange it to be fixed by another electrician and file a claim against their insurance.

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      11 year ago

      Because it takes months to get inspectors out, we wanted to do everything we could to avoid having them come out again. A lot of times I’ve saved a job by promising to do a spot fix and having the inspector swing back by later that day, or take pictures/video and send it to them.

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        11 year ago

        We have 2 inspectors for all inspections (commercial and residential for all trades) who are also our building plan reviewers, building official, and City Arborist for one of the fastest-growing cities in the country (about 45k people now), and we can almost always make it next business day. We can do same day most of the time.

        Sounds like you’re working in a city that doesn’t know how to manage resources.

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          11 year ago

          Definitely true, when it comes to inspectors. But also they just didn’t care.

          The inspectors were good at their jobs, but they had no sense of urgency whatsoever.

          The department was also critically understaffed. Probably still is. I’ve been out of the industry for 5 years.