Need Blueprints wrote:
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:03:52 -0700, Smitty Two
wrote:

Whereas it takes a genius to believe some government agency gives a
rat's ass about keeping track of a blueprint for an old house so you can
find a water pipe. If it's old enough, no blueprint for it was *ever* on
file with a government agency.


Oh looky, there's one of them thare government morons now. Looks like
I hit a nerve ith you, you idjit!

It's _highly_ unlikely there were detailed blueprints to the actual
piping runs, anyway (they would be "field installed details" depending
on the location of the service line, etc., other than the location of
the fixtures which are obvious by inspection.

Secondly, it's even more unlikely the local building department ever
required blueprints themselves actually be filed for residential
construction, what more kept them on file indefinitely.

You could start in that determination by asking the office that
currently issues building permits if they even now actually require and
file blueprints for residential construction. If the answer is "no"
now, it certainly wouldn't have been "yes" years ago.

The key is "approval" isn't in any way to be construed as "on file".

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