Before I get into what I did in the last couple weeks, let’s start off with the inspection I called for on Friday. So I’d never called for a final inspection before, and I just assumed it was called “Final Inspection”, but that wasn’t the case. We had to call for mechanical final, electrical final, plumbing final, and building final. Who would have guessed? Well the inspector showed up, right on time, and to my amazement it wasn’t my regular inspector. This was a huge relief since he’d been the bane of my existence throughout this whole project. There was never anything that he didn’t at least bad mouth a little. Looking back, this one guy will cause me to think twice about pulling a permit for anything but major projects in the future. I basically paid the city $650 to be abused every couple weeks by this guy. Now if he’d actually been helpful in any way in getting this project on track, I would have had no problems, but for only requiring one change in the whole remodel -it sure was a painful experience. But the inspector that showed up for my final inspection wasn’t “that” guy, and I was thanking God for this. He came in, looked around, poked around under the sink, and checked the GFI outlets. There were a few other things he looked at, but things went well. The last thing he did was grab our range and tried to shake it around. “Tried” was the operative word. The range is fit into it’s opening pretty tight and all his shaking wasn’t really doing much. So I told him I might be able to save him some work if he told me what he was looking for. Did you know an anti-tip device was needed on a range in California? (neither did I). I knew exactly what he was talking about, and I even knew where it was out in the garage. I told him I’d have it installed in the next couple hours and would call him back out first thing Monday morning. Well he paused for a second and had me hold up my right hand. I then had to swear I’d put it in, and he signed off on the inspection on the spot. That’s it! The pressure is off! Good thing too, because the six month extension on my permit was nearly up. It’s been a year and a half since we started this thing -and that doesn’t even count the nearly 6 months it took me to build the cabinets before we tore things apart. This project isn’t done, but this is a major milestone for me personally.
I was going to continue this entry with all the stuff that I had to do in preparation for this inspection, but there isn’t a whole lot to tell. So I’m gonna string that story out a bit by doing it next week. I’ll have a few pictures by then too, to make it a little more interesting.
One more thing. I’ve already started making the pantry, and I’ve decided to go into a lot more detail on this part than I have done in the past. I figure maybe someone could benefit from a more detailed look at how this thing will go together. It’ll be nice to take the time to take some photo’s of the process. This was something that I just couldn’t do when I had to build ten different cabinets all at the same time. The pressure is off… I can do things with a little more care and time now.
Tags: DIY, Kitchen remodel
