This post seems to have gone over to 'what's your horror story"?? I was inspecting long range radio alarm relay sites in NYC awhile back. The company rep advised against going to one site on the top of an apartment bldg...the ConEd man had been raped in the stairwell the week before...and neither of us had a weapon.
To the ORIGINAL question, it sounds like the inspector is treating this as a temporary construction service. Are you sure he understood the situation?
