We are going to ask our electricial to schedule our electrical inspection soon. I wanted to get peoples’ input on whether a DOB electrical inspector will check out other elements of the house during the inspection and hand out violations. <\/p>\n
I’ve heard that they generally focus on what they’re there to inspect unless there is obvious unpermitted work going on. The problem is that we have a lot of supplies and tools in our basement that we had used for the renovation, which was primarily cosmetic. I am concerned, for example, because there is a shed on the back of the house that was there and there was no permit for it, but I’m not even sure it needs a permit. It’s clearly newish construction – at least build post-1980s, is my guess. There is also a leak in our water supply line coming in from the street that is very slow. I’m tempted to get a plumber to fix it before we schedule the inspection. We have been trying to finish as many of the things on our worklist as possible before the inspection (like finishing restaining all of our wood panels\/moulding), but I’m wondering if we’re not going overboard on being too worried about getting all this stuff done before we go ahead and schedule the inspection. Should we just schedule the inspection? All walls are closed and painted (some paint touch ups are needed), all bathrooms have been retiled, both kitchen renos are completed. The only things remaining are small things that take forever like fixing moulding, built-in drawers, paint touch ups, etc. How worried do I have to be about the inspection? Has anyone had one done recently?<\/p>\n
Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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