Help Convincing Inspectors They Are Wrong About Code?

[Tuttles Revenge]

I'm 99% certain I know which inspector you had.. I'll keep that to myself. I've also had the conversation with him about his assumption about how many projects get inspected which he thinks is 70% un-inspected.

It sounds like you have a HG exposed shower pipe system, which if you quickly look, looks like a 2 handle mixer but in reality is a thermostatic mixing valve on the right and a volume control on the left.

The location of the controls is something we plan out from the start of a project because this does come up with inpsections. One way we have had to deal with it is to simply install a shower rod and curtain, get the inspection and allow the homeowner to install whatever they want after we are done.. wink wink nudge nudge..

 

[Jeff H Young]

The other way is say screw Permits and beuracracy Im the king of my Castle!, Ive had good and bad, Ive had inspectors go to the wrong house in Los Angeles twice in a row and get all pissy telling us we werent on site we had the card hanging in plain view he went one or 2 houses away and had a real bad attitude when he finally found the place the third time, how the hell does he think the contractor feels hanging out, babysitting a job for three days waiting for some dumbass to sign a card ( of cource we arent getting paid hourly waiting for him) we called manty times building department . Thats just one case I had
Hell yea 70 percent dont pull permits and the other 30 percent that do just dont know any better LOL.
Good Idea on shower curtain Tuttles! its often waiting for glass anyway .

 

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[John Gayewski]

I just had an inspector ask for an underground dwv system test for the first time (with this particular inspector) we weren't planning on testing becuse he never asks. It took an extra day to get the test ready and for him to come out... Here's the end, he never looked at the test. He came out looked at the piping and signed off having not looked at the water level.

 

[Tuttles Revenge]

The other way is say screw Permits and beuracracy Im the king of my Castle!, Ive had good and bad, Ive had inspectors go to the wrong house in Los Angeles twice in a row and get all pissy telling us we werent on site we had the card hanging in plain view he went one or 2 houses away and had a real bad attitude when he finally found the place the third time, how the hell does he think the contractor feels hanging out, babysitting a job for three days waiting for some dumbass to sign a card ( of cource we arent getting paid hourly waiting for him) we called manty times building department . Thats just one case I had
Hell yea 70 percent dont pull permits and the other 30 percent that do just dont know any better LOL.
Good Idea on shower curtain Tuttles! its often waiting for glass anyway .

I had a similar issue. I ended up calling the Seattle Chief inspector and leaving a voice mail complaining about the inspector not showing up for 3 days straight.. That inspector was filling in for the chief that day.. We had a nice conversation in his office where he signed the permit without looking over the work.

 

[Jeff H Young]

I had a similar issue. I ended up calling the Seattle Chief inspector and leaving a voice mail complaining about the inspector not showing up for 3 days straight.. That inspector was filling in for the chief that day.. We had a nice conversation in his office where he signed the permit without looking over the work.

I can forgive mistakes it happens but admit and dont blame others treat others right