12-27-2009, 05:21 PM
Rob said "licensed trades are putting untrained and unsupervised workers onto sites" which is probably true. Interestingly, there are only 230 licensed journeymen electricians and 141 licensed supervisory electricians on the island. Which means a lot of unlicensed people, who may or may not be good electricians, are doing electrical work.
I have conflicting opinions about owner builder work. I have seen some really good unpermitted owner builder installations and some really bad ones. And some really bad ones by "electricians." I like the idea of inspections only but would hate to see inspectors become teachers for people who do the job all wrong. Perhaps they would just list the code sections violated but not explain how to fix it--make people read the code and figure it out themselves.
One thing about the current system, it encourages you to do it unpermitted if possible since the permitting process is such a pain--in both the a** and the pocketbook.
Jerry
I have conflicting opinions about owner builder work. I have seen some really good unpermitted owner builder installations and some really bad ones. And some really bad ones by "electricians." I like the idea of inspections only but would hate to see inspectors become teachers for people who do the job all wrong. Perhaps they would just list the code sections violated but not explain how to fix it--make people read the code and figure it out themselves.
One thing about the current system, it encourages you to do it unpermitted if possible since the permitting process is such a pain--in both the a** and the pocketbook.
Jerry