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Sunworshipper[_2_]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:14:57 GMT, (Pinstripe
Sniper) wrote:

Geez! So I see that my town requires a building permit to replace a
water heater in a non-rental residential property (owner occupied)

Does your government entity require this as well?

Sounds kind of commie to me. Geez, what if I replace my stove or get
a new gas clothes dryer? I guess this must be so because of
earthquake straps becoming a requirement in more locations?

Oh yeah, there's also a law here that vision prescriptions older than
2 years cannot be filled by local opticians.

PsS

One of my pet peeves.

One of my favorites is getting kicked off a job site cause the pool I
was tiling wasn't grounded (bonded) to the equipment. The poor thing
has crisscrossed rebar, concrete a foot thick, and 15' deep in the
ground. I wasn't going to argue with the idiot cause I know they hold
a grudge against the pool company for years, which to me is grounds
for the stripping of all licenses and banished from town. But, I lost
at least a half a days work and gas $, cause the authority didn't know
what ground means.

There was one inspector that held grudges and cost many companies
unwarranted expenditures cause of unprofessionalism. There was a
picture around town that some excavator made of a huge deep hole out
in the desert with this persons name on the grave marker.

I worked for 20 years without a contractors licence and witnessed many
contractors completely screwing up jobs mostly from hiring completely
green workers and paying them nothing and keeping the rest for
themselves.

The house I just built, I had to pay for the legalized extortion and
get scrutinized and nit picked. Like the wires in the main box where
long enough to rearrange breakers, but had to be cut short cause they
would generate too much heat in the box and burn the house down !
I also had to use certified bribery paid trusses and the stickers
better be on them or else. I would have used 2X6's & 2X4's with
plywood glued and screwed, but got 2X4's & 2x2's with pressed tin that
almost came apart while craning them in. Over all the inspector wasn't
as bad as I'm used to and let something's slide, like when he approved
the occupancy permit I had lived here for a year and a half.
I even slipped after he signed and handed it to me, that "So, it's ok
that I can move in now, eh?" What was I suppose to do, live in a
cardboard box until the house was certified safe?

Dickman , had some good points, but still it is getting worse. Like I
hear rumors about companies around here testing the employees to see
if they smoke cigarettes at home, what's next? Twinky tests and
getting fired even though your skinny? Or, have to be certified to buy
a lathe to use at home? Wonder WHO is going to approve me on my 18th
century machines?

SW