Got in a little confusing situation today with the borough.
I wanted the BI to come out today and see all the safety issues were addressed (guardrail, stairrail, holes in floor patched, final survey and flood elevation survey handed in). He’s asked me more than once if the fire, plumbing and electric are inspected. I answer yes. Anyway, in talking to the borough clerk, she says there are no final plumbing, electric, fire inspections. I don’t get it.
Did the work, had them inspect it, passed and that’s not it. They need to comeback to look at the same stuff, no change since they first saw it, and do a final? Not trying to sound like a smartass, just don’t know the process. I thought the final inspection double checked the other guys. Each area has it’s own final? Somebody make sense of this for me, I’m in NJ if that helps.
Beautiful day at the beach today, can’t wait to enjoy the place.
Kevin
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Where I live on new construction:
The building inspector inspects the footings and any other pre-pour inspections.
Plumbing and HVAC inspectors will also be out if there is underslab plumbing or heating.
After the house is framed:
Then the plumbing, electric, and HVAC inspectors look at the respective rough ins.
Then the framing inspection.
Then the vapor barrier inspection.
Then the final plumbing, electric, and HVAC inspections after fixtures are set, final manometer test is done, furnace and HRV is in and operating, electric devices, service panel is in, etc.
Then the building inspector does a final inspection. This is mostly about life safety issues--handrails, fire separations, address numbers on house, fire separation between house and garage, etc.
Hope this helps.
it did, thanks.
Look at, and read, your inspection reports. What do they say. BI's get pissed when you do not read your own reports. It is not very hard to get your ducks in a row.
what report? All I've ever got was a sticker, pass or fail. I fail, the reasons were written on sticker, maybe 3 1/2 inches square in size.
Every jurisdiction has its own requirements and sometimes each person you talk to has a different version. The building inspector who signs the CO is the only person who can tell you definitively what you need to do. Talk to that person. He will be glad to inform you and probably has a handout outlining the required procedures.
dock,
As mentioned each ADJ has somewhat different rules potentially.
Here each phase is signed off by the appropriate inspector and it is noted on a single card.
Plumbing and mechanical may have a separate inspector due to their qualifications. Electric here is done by yet another separate inspector.
What the clerk may have been saying is that the BI doesn't do the other types of inspections. The BI may have been asking if the other inspectors have signed off because he can't unless they have.
Could also be the clerk was simply saying there is only 1 final inspection for everything, not separate finals inspections for each.
Semantics??