Recently when asked to quote a job on a very old building I was concerned that even though the job was not much, that there was the possibility that the AHJ may insist on some non related changes that could tremendously increase the cost.
Therefore prior to quoting the job the owner allowed me to buy a permit, (to cover the cost of an inspection), in order to have it looked at by an inspector to see if he would have an issue with a couple of items. Remember, I had done nothing, everything was “existing” at that time.
He wrote a code correction into my file as though I had already done the job. At that time I hadn’t even been awarded the job yet. Then two weeks later I recieved a "you have not responded" letter demanding to make the corrections "or else".
I did get this resolved ok.
However, my question is.
What’s a contractor to do when he goes to look at a structure in order to quote a job, and he sees obvious, unrelated code violations that an inspector would also see, and possibly make an issue with it?
What do you guys do?
Thanks in advance,
Rick
