I worked on a large wetlands project back in the mid 90's. It had several settling ponds probably 25 to 50 acres apiece on it. They had to plant cattails in these to clean the sewer water pumped in them. Well over the time frame the job took to get done they did a final inspection of everything. They made the contractor pull up and replant all the cattails because in the specs of the job the cattails could be no bigger than five-eighths of inch around. They had grown bigger than that since being planted and wouldn't pass specs. Probably a 100,000 dollar deal or more when done. Talk about dumb!

 

Building Inspectors are nothing more than failed contractors.....they can't make it as a builder or other type of contractor so they decide to to inspect the guys that do make it.

 

Isnt that funny how that always seems to work, the people who arent good enough to be doing the real job usually end up inspecting/evaluting or teaching what they've failed actually failed at doing probably time and time again.

 

Around here all the inspectors are failed contractors.....They are total ****** too....it's like they fail guys that make it on purpose so they can feel self important. We need to have some inpsections and some codes to go by because if not there would be some real garbage being built and people being taken advantage of....but codes are just the bare minimum.....

 

Then the mexicans don't even have to meet minimum, but we always had to meet code plus.

 

Most of those Mexican Laborers aren't even supposed to be here...so if they are illegal and don't belong here are they really here? Did they really do the work to be inspected?







I'm being saracastic.....

 

I want to know how they get stuff passed we can't, the last house my brother bought for resale the whole slab was broke into and we had to fill the break with epoxy.

You could take a pencil and scratch your name it the concrete, it was mostly sand, so they building houses that won't make it 20 years and will be like cars lose money and not be worth a crap and will have to be scraped.

 

I agree with you but you and I know part of that blame falls on the owner of the house. They didn't do ANY homework nor really care whom built their house. They had a floor plan and they wanted it done for as cheap as possible. I see it all the time around here. Some people walk in my door with one of those plan magazines and say they have X amount of money and I want this house. 99% of the time they are 50-100K short of the house they want but they will scrounge around and find some bum that will build it for that price.....just cause the outside looks like the nice picture doesn't mean the house is right. Then a couple years down the road I get a phone call to come fix this and that because their orginal contractor skipped town or is out of business.....cheap is not the best word when it comes to houses.

 

Here they build whole neighborhoods, so it's the builder who knows better and knows they can get away with it and will be working under another name by the time the stuff hits the fan.

They been getting away with it for 20 years in Florida, used to be all new house had to be repainted with in 6 months because of shortcuts but at least you had a sound house, now the paint lasts longer the house falls apart.

They had 20-2 story house they had to destroy because of bad foundations, every builder, inspector and they bosses who made them pass the junk should be in jail.

Cheaper houses my ***.

 

The buildings department here is pretty good.

As long as I have my inspections from my engineers and as long as I give them the opportunity to inspect (whether they come or not) then we are as good as golden. I am driving by schedule and generally don't let paper work stand in my way because time is money.

This can't be done without an understanding and they know what I am doing so it's ok. I think they have a really tough job when every land owner wants to become a developer or general contractor and they spend most of their day making sure this sort of thing does get out of control...

It should also be noted that if someone keeps saying that they have insurance, you'd bes get a copy or at least make sure it is applicable to what you are doing. The Canadian New Home Warranty isn't worth the paper its printed on in most cases and some fly-by-night GC's use that to weasel their way out of things that really they should fix or make right. (AKA Mike Holmes or any other self respecting tradesperson).