So the inspector showed up Wednesday morning. Apparently I didn’t do anything right. The advice I’d been given down at the city was… totally and completely not what this guy wanted to see. He’s saying that the vent pipe has to come out of the wall, into the cabinets and then back into the wall, so I don’t have to drill any holes in the studs for the plumbing. I have never seen this done, but he wasn’t budging on it. I was crushed…
So that evening I start mulling this all over in my head. There’s got to be another way! I’m going to have to shorten up two of my cabinets, cut drawers down by about 1/3, and get new, shorter drawer slides -the list just goes on and on. This will set me back weeks! So I put together my argument and head down to the city offices the next morning to plead my case. I pull out my docs and start in on all the reasons he’s gotta help me out on this. The last thing I do is pull out a Simpson brochure with something called a “stud-shoe” in it. It’s made specifically for applications like this. He says something to the effect that -that would work…
I can see now that this is going to be a tough job. I have an inspector that says I have to re-frame everything, and run plumbing outside a wall and cut into my cabinets, when all I needed was a $12 part… Grrrrr… However it didn’t go all bad. He was threatening me with having to pull off all the stucco on that corner of the house and requiring me to put up shear-wall. And he mentioned that he would have never passed the electrical panel that we did about a year or so ago, but he was willing to let it go for now. He also got on my case about calling him to do an inspection for only two things. He wants me to have everything that can physically be done before I call him in again -and here I can’t even get framing and plumbing signed off! If I’d done the electrical & lathe before talking to him, I’d be tearing a lot more stuff apart than what I currently have to do. I can see I’m in deep crap with this.
So I wanted to put off this post until I had the new Framing & plumbing done, but I haven’t quite had the time to totally finish it all up, but I got a started on the electrical in the mean time. Things are coming along. Hope to have the new window installed before the end of the weekend, even though Saturday is blown since we’re heading up to my brother in law’s restaurant for his birthday. However it looks like Saturday won’t be a total loss on the project. We plan on visiting our good friends Phil & Jean -who happen to have a drum sander! I’m boxing up the drawer fronts and bringing them along for the ride!
Here's that boot that saved me much pain and suffering...
The start of the electrical work...
Fixing & re-doing some of the existing electrical is gonna take some time...
At least it's a little warmer this week. It makes doing the dishes in the evening a little more pleasant...
