Shadow01
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join:2003-10-24
Wasteland
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| reply to nunya
Re: Permits and inspection question?
said by nunya  :
I agree, a "Pro" simply means the person is paid for their services, it has no bearing on their knowledge or craftsmanship.
That's the craziest and most outlandish thing I've seen posted here in a while. Are you saying that there are no bad pros?
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nunya
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disconnected
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| reply to Daarken
Yeah, tell me about those "qualified" professional electricians--I had to re-wire several junction boxes that a state-licensed electrician wired in my house 40 years ago. Just last week, when I was renovating a section of roof and had to disconnect some BX armored cable from a junction box, I saw the most shocking thing: the connections had no wirenuts on them! Bare copper, out in the open, in junction box!
I had another connection fail, and two other places where he put stuff together and caused wires to be pinched and broken off. Overhead lights that stopped working 1 year after he wired them. In 2006, I found the pinched wire and fixed it. The light works for the first time in 43 years.
I'm not saying most handymen know what they're doing, and I DO have some formal training, back in the knob & tube days, but what passes for professional work is sometimes awful. |
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cowboyro
join:2000-10-11
Shelton, CT
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| reply to kherr
said by kherr :Getting a permit may open a big can of worms too. They can require EVERYTHING on the property brought up to code, not just the effected area. False. It's called grandfathering, once up to the code it's up to the code forever... or until it gets altered.
Public buildings can be different as they have to comply with various additional regulations. |
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Willy
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| said by cowboyro :said by kherr :Getting a permit may open a big can of worms too. They can require EVERYTHING on the property brought up to code, not just the effected area. False. It's called grandfathering, once up to the code it's up to the code forever... or until it gets altered. Public buildings can be different as they have to comply with various additional regulations. That's right.
I'm sure this varies city by city, state by state but the guideline is usually adding or renovating over a certain percentage of the building, below which
(with very few exceptions) they can't make you update anything existing. |
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