I never took anything negative away from this.
We are OK.
I agree that there is a lot of abuse of owner builder permits. I also understand EC wish people would call them for everything.
In spite of this, Home Depot is packed with people who should have someone looking over what they install.
I just would like to see them more comfortable getting a permit when the HO is doing the work. Inspectors are not the enemy.
Maybe building departments should have a "kinder gentler" subsidiary that sells expanded services to homeowners.
This is not totally a foreign concept to me. When I was inspecting for the state, most of my jobs were not performed by licensed contractors. In fact that was rare.
It was usually the "maintenance department" in places like DOT, in the prison system the wiremen were inmates and in the park system it was either rangers or volunteers.
I spent a lot of time explaining things.
