We've just passed a pre-line inspection by the City Council building inspectors. They needed to sign off the new laundry framing, electrics and wall-lining before we could insulate and wall in and finish the laundry. That was the good news.
The bad news was the building inspector looked around and informed us that the house is not sitting on the piles correctly! The house movers used packers where the pile didn't quite reach up to the house, and they incorrectly packed with custom board! Duh! Ok we can get under the house, jack it up in places and replace the shoddy packers with slices of actual pile wood. But, worse, some of the bearers are not sitting correctly on some piles. They're off to one side or the other and this is not allowed. We will not get Code of Compliance with it like that.
We need Code of Compliance to get the new title for the land issued and to be able to refinance. So, this is crucial to the successful completion of our project.
Not quite sure yet how we fix the problem. No doubt there'll be more unexpected un-budgetted-for expense.
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