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level with me

ICE

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So would you ask them to level the unit?



The unit is out of level more than the picture shows.
 
ICE,

I don't think workmanship is your job. You have enough to do with codes and safety.
 
On a final, yes! Level the unit.

Replacement install by contractor, yes, level the unit.

Could be the homeowner's rights to be lazy.
 
until you final the building, require it.. after that it's a contractor warranty issue.
 
Rider Rick said:
ICE,I don't think workmanship is your job.
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I know but sometimes I just can't help it.

I had one job that included a wall furnace on the first floor of a two story house. The drywall patch was terrible. When I showed up for final, the elderly lady showed me the walls and started to cry because the contractor refused to fix the mess, and wow it was a mess.

Luckily this was funded by redevelopment dollars and the contractor couldn't get paid until I signed the permit card. Well I didn't sign the card and the contractor called me the next day wondering why. All I said was, "The lady was crying." He said, "So what." I said, "I will sign the card when the lady isn't crying."

There was the time that I told a roofer to clean the rain gutters that he left full of wood shingle debris. He lodged a complaint because that's not in the code.

I've made roofers replace V-Rustic that they shot nails through. I took a lot of flack here at the forum when I mentioned that one.

I made a roofer give a 95 year old lady a roof for nearly free. It's too long of a story but the short version is that the roofer tried to screw the little old lady, come to think of it, she was crying too.
 
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I always hated it when the 95 year old lady came in to apply for the permit saying she was going to do the work!
 
jar546 said:
HmmmmDoes the manufacturer have specifications?

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Compressor manufacturers require no more than 2% from vertical. It is important and is listed on every piece of equipment literature in the installation instructions. Not only bearing failure but some manufactures compressor motors are mounted on springs internally. When the torque of the motor takes place at start up the motor will bang against the compressor shell and when it shuts down.
 
ICE said:
I know but sometimes I just can't help it.I had one job that included a wall furnace on the first floor of a two story house. The drywall patch was terrible. When I showed up for final, the elderly lady showed me the walls and started to cry because the contractor refused to fix the mess, and wow it was a mess.

Luckily this was funded by redevelopment dollars and the contractor couldn't get paid until I signed the permit card. Well I didn't sign the card and the contractor called me the next day wondering why. All I said was, "The lady was crying." He said, "So what." I said, "I will sign the card when the lady isn't crying."

There was the time that I told a roofer to clean the rain gutters that he left full of wood shingle debris. He lodged a complaint because that's not in the code.

I've made roofers replace V-Rustic that they shot nails through. I took a lot of flack here at the forum when I mentioned that one.

I made a roofer give a 95 year old lady a roof for free. It's too long of a story but the short version is that the roofer tried to screw the little old lady, come to think of it, she was crying too.
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Tiger,

Like I said before I wish you would have been the Building Inspector on the house I built.

The City I was a Building Inspector at the BO/Director told me workmanship was NOT my job.

So good for you, keep up the good work and more power to you. It's not the easy way to get the pay check.

Rick
 
peach said:
I always hated it when the 95 year old lady came in to apply for the permit saying she was going to do the work!
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The contractor didn't get a permit and he was half done when I found it. It was a third layer and he finished the roof after I gave him a stop work notice. Then he scared the lady demanding payment. He showed up at her door at 10:00 pm threatening to put her out in the street.
 
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