guppy_fishPremium
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Lakeland, FL
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Re: Garage addition Like everything, you have to shop around and know the details of what your price includes!
Typically I've paid $2-300 for the stamp on house plans, but calling around got prices similar to what the OP got zing-botted |
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kudos:1 | but if an engineer presents the plans in the first place, they should not need modification to get stamped. |
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| said by AVD:but if an engineer presents the plans in the first place, they should not need modification to get stamped.
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guppy_fishPremium
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Lakeland, FL
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Its an option from my experience ( stamp ) and extra cost as it's never the engineer that makes the plans but a drafts person. A firm may only have one PE, but 10 people doing the plans |
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| This is true, but the draftsmen all work under the direction of the PE so the plans are P.E.'s design drawn by the draftsman. Typically, any drawings that leaves an engineers office that doesn't have a seal on them are either (a) preliminary or uncompleted drawings or (b) The client used the company as a drafting service and not for engineering services.
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kudos:1 | depends on the jurisdiction. I couldn't release a drawing or report in NJ without a seal. In NY I could, but once it had my name and number, it would (have to) be as good as sealed.
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said by natedj:Typically, any drawings that leaves an engineers office that doesn't have a seal on them are either (a) preliminary or uncompleted drawings or (b) The client used the company as a drafting service and not for engineering services.
Which is exactly what the OP did, he had plans drawn up, not stamped. When he went back, they charged to make the drafting service plans official engineered plans
All services I checked out do this, its just a bit over the top what he paid for the stamp, but its very common for actual firms to do this, two tired pricing.
The OP could have take those drafted plans and found his own PE to stamp them, not uncommon at all.
This is just one of many joys of being your own GC |
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said by guppy_fish:said by natedj:Typically, any drawings that leaves an engineers office that doesn't have a seal on them are either (a) preliminary or uncompleted drawings or (b) The client used the company as a drafting service and not for engineering services.
Which is exactly what the OP did, he had plans drawn up, not stamped. When he went back, they charged to make the drafting service plans official engineered plans sometimes it costs more to fix a mistake.
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| said by AVD:sometimes it costs more to fix a mistake.
Oh I understand and completely agree ... like interior walls that zero width on the plans  |
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I'm a little confused now. Looking back on the PDF the OP posted, there are "A" sheets and "S" sheets signifying architectural and structural sheets, if there were already architectural drawings then why would anyone have structural drawings done and not have them sealed? I guess that the OP thought the city won't require a seal and he choose the cheaper way out, but shame on the engineer that charge that much to stamp a set of drawings that came out of his own office.
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| said by natedj:I'm a little confused now. Looking back on the PDF the OP posted, there are "A" sheets and "S" sheets signifying architectural and structural sheets, if there were already architectural drawings then why would anyone have structural drawings done and not have them sealed? I guess that the OP thought the city won't require a seal and he choose the cheaper way out, but shame on the engineer that charge that much to stamp a set of drawings that came out of his own office.
OP doesn't handle that stuff. That's the GC's job. |
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