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>Professionals are up on all the codes and the latest tricks and so will be a lot faster. "Professionals" also get preferential treatment from municipal govern
by EricE 5y ago
>Professionals are up on all the codes and the latest tricks and so will be a lot faster.
"Professionals" also get preferential treatment from municipal governments. I'm pretty sure the only thing my local building inspector did was sign paperwork - good thing I found an actual home inspector that had a construction background because he found electrical, plumbing and framing issues so glaring it's obvious the local building inspectors "inspected" from the curb only :p
My parents built the house I grew up in and over the years I've helped several friends build their own houses and the amount of trivial crap they had to put up from drunk on power building inspectors is nuts by comparison. It's an utter farce. The problem is very few people will ever experience it, so it's easy to not even realize what's going on.
Until a large condo suddenly collapses in the middle of the night :p
- bluGill 5y agoDifferent cities have different inspectors. However you should take up local politics if professionals are getting better treatment for crap work. That said, my experience with inspectors is they know who are the good ones and who are the bad ones. The bad ones get everything looked over closely. The good ones get a close look once in a while, but if the inspector is busy a quick look is all they will get. Trust comes from the inspectors experience in this case though, something that one off homeowners obviously haven't earned.