Owner/Builder and Contractor [California]
Purchased and did major rennovations to a turn of the century home. Added a 2/1 unit (attached) underneath existing home. New foundation, plumbing, electrical, mechanical. City was between building inspectors and hired a third party inspection outfit who conducted the final inspection and the city issued a certificate of habilitability, which was in 2019.
Fast forward to 2023.
I needed to replace the A/C units (window units) upstairs and pulled a permit to replace them with a 2-zone mini split. The permit included a demo permit to pull out 100 square feet of sheetrock in the front bedroom to insulate that wall (original part of the house is now the upstairs and it still has missing insulation in some walls).
The city still has no building inspector and uses the third party inspection outfit. I scheduled an inspection after removing the 100 sq feet of sheetrock.
The inspector no-showed. I re-scheduled but could not be onsite that day and left the unit accessible for the inspector. He showed up but said he couldn't get in. We rescheduled a third time. He no showed.
I went down to the city building department and they wanted a $66 re-inspection fee. I told the manager the inspector no showed so "no I'm not paying a re-inspection fee."
Inspector writes a ****ty email to the city manager and the community development director calling me a liar.
4th inspection date: The inspector shows up with a police escort (I cant make this **** up), and proceeds to tell me "you shouldn't have called me a liar."
This is the part I need help with:
He proceeds to make two pages of violations unrelated to the sheetrock demo to force a re-inspection of the ENTIRE property from the 2019 permit and the final. The caveat: HE IS THE SAME INSPECTOR WHO SIGNED OF ON THE FINAL IN 2019.
What should I do at this point?
Purchased and did major rennovations to a turn of the century home. Added a 2/1 unit (attached) underneath existing home. New foundation, plumbing, electrical, mechanical. City was between building inspectors and hired a third party inspection outfit who conducted the final inspection and the city issued a certificate of habilitability, which was in 2019.
Fast forward to 2023.
I needed to replace the A/C units (window units) upstairs and pulled a permit to replace them with a 2-zone mini split. The permit included a demo permit to pull out 100 square feet of sheetrock in the front bedroom to insulate that wall (original part of the house is now the upstairs and it still has missing insulation in some walls).
The city still has no building inspector and uses the third party inspection outfit. I scheduled an inspection after removing the 100 sq feet of sheetrock.
The inspector no-showed. I re-scheduled but could not be onsite that day and left the unit accessible for the inspector. He showed up but said he couldn't get in. We rescheduled a third time. He no showed.
I went down to the city building department and they wanted a $66 re-inspection fee. I told the manager the inspector no showed so "no I'm not paying a re-inspection fee."
Inspector writes a ****ty email to the city manager and the community development director calling me a liar.
4th inspection date: The inspector shows up with a police escort (I cant make this **** up), and proceeds to tell me "you shouldn't have called me a liar."
This is the part I need help with:
He proceeds to make two pages of violations unrelated to the sheetrock demo to force a re-inspection of the ENTIRE property from the 2019 permit and the final. The caveat: HE IS THE SAME INSPECTOR WHO SIGNED OF ON THE FINAL IN 2019.
What should I do at this point?
