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Okay, how would you handle this one?
Had a house fire last summer with a lot of smoke damage. Kitchen had a couple of damaged cabinets, the french doors to the outside in the laundry room were a casualty along with a little vinyl siding.
So, contractor A comes in and pulls permits for temporary electrical, sheetrock replacement (1st insurance claim), and a reroof (2nd insurance claim). I okayed the electrical and roof.
Today, I had contractor B in my office first thing screaming at me that there were all kinds of problems with this house that he had just bought and accusing me of not doing my job. He started in on how there were no overhead lights or switches in the living room, no hard wired smoke detectors, the bathtub in one of the bathrooms wasn't right, the disposal wasn't installed correctly, heater wasn't working properly, no obscure glass in the bathroom windows, etc., etc., etc. and the county wouldn't have allowed this to happen. He kept saying that with a $130,000 remodel this should all have been done, especially the hard wired smoke detectors.
I got him calmed down, told him I didn't know about the other work, and went and pulled the original permit. Sure enough, the permit was for sheetrock, temp. electrical, and roofing. Contractor B apoligized to me for flying off the handle. I thanked him for informing me of the work that was done without a permit. I will be meeting him in the AM to look at a few things and I advised him to file a complaint with the CSLB.
So, the tally for work without a permit stands at - windows, tub, water heater, disposal (plumbing), heater (mechanical), and possibly some extra electrical. Sometime during the non-permitted process, the homeowner/contractor switched the utilities from LPG to all electric.
And now, the rest of the story.......................
Both of these contractors are 'problem children' and I have dinged them for work deficiencies in the past. Add to this that they both dislike each other and you now get the full picture. :roll:
Sue, sandbox monitor
Had a house fire last summer with a lot of smoke damage. Kitchen had a couple of damaged cabinets, the french doors to the outside in the laundry room were a casualty along with a little vinyl siding.
So, contractor A comes in and pulls permits for temporary electrical, sheetrock replacement (1st insurance claim), and a reroof (2nd insurance claim). I okayed the electrical and roof.
Today, I had contractor B in my office first thing screaming at me that there were all kinds of problems with this house that he had just bought and accusing me of not doing my job. He started in on how there were no overhead lights or switches in the living room, no hard wired smoke detectors, the bathtub in one of the bathrooms wasn't right, the disposal wasn't installed correctly, heater wasn't working properly, no obscure glass in the bathroom windows, etc., etc., etc. and the county wouldn't have allowed this to happen. He kept saying that with a $130,000 remodel this should all have been done, especially the hard wired smoke detectors.
I got him calmed down, told him I didn't know about the other work, and went and pulled the original permit. Sure enough, the permit was for sheetrock, temp. electrical, and roofing. Contractor B apoligized to me for flying off the handle. I thanked him for informing me of the work that was done without a permit. I will be meeting him in the AM to look at a few things and I advised him to file a complaint with the CSLB.
So, the tally for work without a permit stands at - windows, tub, water heater, disposal (plumbing), heater (mechanical), and possibly some extra electrical. Sometime during the non-permitted process, the homeowner/contractor switched the utilities from LPG to all electric.
And now, the rest of the story.......................
Both of these contractors are 'problem children' and I have dinged them for work deficiencies in the past. Add to this that they both dislike each other and you now get the full picture. :roll:
Sue, sandbox monitor
