dpb wrote:
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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In my experience, the permit office MAY have plans for places under
construction or recently built, but it usually isn't a full set, just a
plat to show the setbacks, and a couple sheets to show the square
footage and maybe where the utility approaches are. However, once the
place is signed off and occupied, as soon as the file cabinets get full,
the file usually gets culled down to the permit application. And if that
area puts the stuff in a database, as soon as it is keyed in, even that
is gone. This is in the midwest, in several states.

Note that historical districts and societies sometimes harvest plans for
older houses in their coverage areas.

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