Framing complete, plumbing roughed-in, and electrical racing to get done. That can mean only one thing, INSPECTIONS.
Inspections are like the big toll bridge and the inspectors are the trolls. If you fail your inspections you cannot pass go or collect (spend) $200. The next month is huge for us, because I actually have two weekends off to work. So in theory we could do insulation the first weekend, an insulation inspection during the week, and then drywalling the next weekend. Then the spackler could come in, followed by the floor guy, and some quick painting which would allow us to install the cabinets after Christmas just before the new year. That would be a level of completion that we thought was impossible just a couple of weeks away.
But this whole schedule rested on the decisions of inspectors who could ridicule the slightest problem.
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So we submitted our plans today, and it was not so bad as Matt thought. The initial stages are actually pretty easy. Looking at the Village’s website, it looks like you have to have everything ready when you go in–drawings done and electrical and plumbing permits signed off by the professionals. It’s a little overwhelming, and after looking into it I could start to understand Matt’s stress.
After an expensive and hurried trip to Kinko’s, I went down to the Village Hall with Matt. He claims that once those people find out you are an architect, they love to start giving you a hard time, where as home owners can basically get away with anything. We took a number and sat down to wait. (more…)
An e-mail to Liz and Thor:
I am tired. I don’t think I am ready to submit. It is all just rushed and I haven’t started the forms. OP doesn’t not have necessarily a good website for submittal requirements. One requirement that I saw required a site plan the site survey probably won’t be enough. There are gaps in the drawings but it is hard to say how hard they will review the stuff. I am hearing some bad things from other architects, but I think we just need to get it into the system and take our hits.
Demo plan
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