I had a new hot water heater installed a few years ago. The plumber came, installed, and left. He pulled a permit; standard operating procedure.
The building dept. hounded me for almost a year. They wanted to “inspect” the installation.
BS
They wanted to see if I had improved my basement.
I hadn’t.
It’s still a mess.
“I had a new hot water heater installed a few years ago. The plumber came, installed, and left. He pulled a permit; standard operating procedure...The building dept. hounded me for almost a year. They wanted to “inspect” the installation.”
The mistake was the permit - they do have the right to inspect the work done, if a permit is pulled. I doubt that they can legally re-assess based on that walk-through, but people in city hall do talk to each other.