tmurray
SAWHORSE
I had a similar thing happen, but it was the contractor who advised me of the change. This actually happens quite a bit here, an owner or owner's representative will ask the contractor to do something they know is illegal. They inform the owner that it is a code violation and are told to do it anyway and they do, then call my office to ask for a "progress inspection" on the item or area in question and then get payed to fix it when I write it up as a deficiency. Contractors love this because we end up proving them right and they get payed to do something twice.