The flashing is galvanized steel painted to match. The tile looks newer than the flashing.$ ~ $
The "copper colored" metal flashings around the vertical vent
pipes isn't copper at all......True copper would have oxidized
by now.........That appears to be some type of manufactured,
colored flashing to match tile roofing.
$ ~ $
This time the contractor was there to meet me. He used a 5# sledgehammer to open the wall. The wall deflected an alarming distance.
He is a polite Asian fellow. Communication is not splendid. Smiles a lot and bows his head. It would have been easier to be nice to him if he didn't perform sloppy work.
I could tell by the look on his face that he knew the box must be grounded. I'm pretty sure that he could tell what I was thinking too.
Seldom is there a survey. Considering the expense there must be a compelling reason to cause someone to spend thousands of dollars for a survey. If I have unanswered questions about property lines it's likely that the owner will move the structure a few feet and convince me that setbacks are met. In an urban area such as where I work, figuring out where property lines are located is usually not a problem.
There sure is a difference between The Bay Area and Southern California, I've been getting surveys on everything I do as far back as I can remember, since surveyors usually stake the corners only I have to run stringlines from the curb-cut to the rear corner stake so we can hold a tape on the string and show the inspector that our setbacks are correct.
Another issue is drainage plans, I was planning to put an addition on my own house, got a survey and found the sideline was 5' off drom the curb-cut, the surveryor reasearched it and found a mistake had been made years ago and everyone kept following it, then the city civil engineer demanded a drainage plan, of course the survey was the basis of the drainage plan that was overlayed. The cost of the drainage that my civil engineer designed was as much as the addition and I cancelled plans to do it.
It is always proper to criticize a building inspector that oversteps his authority.
Yes there are problems but neither the building official or the inspector has the authority to impose his personal solution. Their job is to fairly enforce the adopted regulations.
When a building inspector acts illegally he no longer has legal immunity for his actions.
Tiger said:You know conarb, it has been many times that you complain about me overstepping my authority. You are right, about that, but not right to criticize. I am always in possession of my faculties. I see a danger and react as any competent adult should. The conditions here are rife with perils that will devastate and destroy people after a small misstep. Those people are mostly young Hispanics that hardly understand English. They do understand that $50 a day is a lot more than $5. So they follow orders. Orders from a hefe whom cares not a wit about them. I step in the middle of that several times a month.
Turning them in has little effect. CalOSHA responds by sending the contractor a letter. When I contacted CalOSHA this time I was asked, “Does the contractor have an OSHA excavation permit”? I’ve never seen an excavation permit....and never will.Then why aren't you turning them in?
What illegal authoritarian rule are you referring to? Is it conarb's misunderstanding of sewer pipe on private land being the responsibility of the building dept? Is it me calling CalOSHA? What exactly is it that has you convinced I'm a scofflaw in conflict with the constitution, a threat to democracy?So the answer is to impose illegal authoritarian rule by a building inspector. This is in conflict with our Constitution and our ideas of democracy.
Do you have the integrity to let your supervisors know that you are exceeding your authority and that you intend to continue to exceed your authority?