01-25-2009, 04:07 AM
The only problem I had with my inspections is one inspector showed up three hours early. Nobody was here narturally, and the neighbors dogs were barking at her, so she left a note saying she couldn't get access, why she didn't walk around the gate is still a mystery to me, probably the dogs.
A word of caution to those with lani railings. The height minimum is 36 inches. I routed all of the 2x6s on this job, and I noticed some boards were light as a feather while others were markedly heavier. When the inspector came for the framing inspection, the first thing he did was measure the railing height and failed us because we were one eight short of 36 inches. Almost all of the railings were 1/8 low, so the builder took his crow bar and pryed them up. The inspector barely looked at them when he returned, no problems. The moral of the story is, always make your railings 36 and 1/4 because the wood will shrink a tad as it drys.
The one issue we had on final was the railing on the sprial staircase needed to be an inch and a half from the wall. If anybody has ever erected one, they know the staircase is strug tighter than a harp. My builder just wedged a few blocks of wood between the railing and wall, which gave us the inch and a half, and the inspector gave it a pass, Bob Smelker produced his letter the next Monday, and we were approved on Tuesday.
I got my final exactly 8 months and 3 days after leaving Atlanta, not too shabby, eh.
FNG
A word of caution to those with lani railings. The height minimum is 36 inches. I routed all of the 2x6s on this job, and I noticed some boards were light as a feather while others were markedly heavier. When the inspector came for the framing inspection, the first thing he did was measure the railing height and failed us because we were one eight short of 36 inches. Almost all of the railings were 1/8 low, so the builder took his crow bar and pryed them up. The inspector barely looked at them when he returned, no problems. The moral of the story is, always make your railings 36 and 1/4 because the wood will shrink a tad as it drys.
The one issue we had on final was the railing on the sprial staircase needed to be an inch and a half from the wall. If anybody has ever erected one, they know the staircase is strug tighter than a harp. My builder just wedged a few blocks of wood between the railing and wall, which gave us the inch and a half, and the inspector gave it a pass, Bob Smelker produced his letter the next Monday, and we were approved on Tuesday.
I got my final exactly 8 months and 3 days after leaving Atlanta, not too shabby, eh.
FNG