Who Is Responsible??

[AlohaSteven]

As far as inspections go, how could the pre-sale inspectors see beneath the slab?

Unless my memory is mistaken, before the foundation on our house was poured the "pre-foundation pour prep" had to be inspected and signed off by an official inspector so our (excellent, thanks be to the Goddess) GC had the legal OK signed off to pour. Seems like the GC had to wait a couple days for the big event of the pour because of a combination of inspector not being available and then rainy weather, if I recall correctly.

Inspectors may not be able to see beneath the pad, per se, yet at an earlier stage in the iterations of inspections and green lights to proceed (long before you bought the place) was there not a County of Hawaii inspector looking at the ground on which the foundation was to be poured? Seems like at that juncture the inspector would have been involved. If the GC buried greenwaste under the foundation area and then later told the inspector all was well, knowing otherwise, then even if the inspector could not detect the lie it seems like the GC misrepresenting the situation to an inspector would be an issue.

In truth I do not know squat about any of this sort of thing, but the injustice of Chuysmom's experience moves me to offer the question. Surely do hope a way can be found to salvage the foundation/situation for you and your family, regardless of how the legal machinery does or does not grind along.


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