Example was the electricians put in the electrical outlets at 15 inches to the bottom of the boxes. It says in the code at the rough floor stage, and when they looked at the check list to look at the plans what was going to be at the finished product included an inch and a half light concrete over the floor because it was multistory so for fire resistance rating and then bring the finished floor up and the electrical outlets would have been non compliant at that stage. Catching it at the rough electrical stage is a big catch. Actually the electrician that installed them was upset but his boss that owned the business was very happy because if it would have had to be done at final he indicated it would have put him out of business but also im in a small jurisdiction and in a small jurisdiction we all know about politics and so sometimes when politics come in play it affects when youre going to look at 100,000 fix and they know someone a little over your head, and theres other things that
Or 25 years ago it passed all of the inspections, so im grandfathered. Have we ever heard that . All the time. Does anybody want to talk about that because its really a conundrum . This grandfathering thing, any panelists . Well there is a certain amount of truth to that because if it was built by the accessibility code during that time and enjoys a safe harbor and unless its a item new in the code they cant use it, but its one of the things about the checklist you maybe looking at a building where they put the switches at 54 inches above the floor and if you use the checklist it says 48 so explaining that difference to people is important. As a practicing cass arnie do you find that to be easy to explain to your clientele in your experience that they have a safe harbor issue or possibly it was built wrong and doesnt qualify for the safe harbor . Well at this point the first thing i ask them is do you want to meet current code thats in place right now or do you want me to look at what
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