It’s finally inspection day! We’ve been super nervous leading up to this, but we’re very excited to announce that we’ve passed our first inspection!
Some key things that happened today:
Slight Adjustment to Footers
Currently, Armin prepared the footers to be 8” wide going all the way down to the ground. Turns out, according to the inspector, the base needs to be 16” wide, a few inches from the ground, before turning to 8” width. Armin said the inspector told him it’s not a big deal. He’s going to pass us, but we’ll need to place a cinder block below each corner to raise the whole thing, take a few pictures to show the update and send to him for records, and it’ll be all good.
Crawl Space Not Accessible
Turns out the inspector caught where the plans call for the crawlspace to be accessible, which I predicted. Armin was sure they wouldn’t give us trouble about it, but here we are lol. Oh well.
Armin said he explained to the inspector that the space below will only be like 6” and he doesn’t plan to have lines going through there, but the inspector basically said, sure but still ya gotta do it. However, after a bit of back and forth, Armin said the inspector told him to hang back. He’s going to check with his colleague. He may have a work around for us..
When Armin told me about this, at the end of the day, I responded, “yeah, dude, I remember pointing that out.” To which he replied, “sure, but if we don’t have lines going through below, it’s not really necessary. Considering that for the gas line, going to the stove, we could run that through the back wall, instead of from below” To which I responded, “what about the island? We have to have plumbing and electrical go up to that” He said, “isn’t that sitting mostly over the current footprint?” I said, “No, it’s mostly in the bump out, I think.” So, we talked about that a bit and planned to meet back up on site Monday to take a look at the plans and the dig site to access, and see if we can figure out how best to respond.
Unfortunately, because the trenches are already dug out, we can’t really come back with the excavator to dig the middle out after the fact. We’d have to do it by hand. A lot of it is on me, I think. I knew from the start that we should probably just dig it out. I didn’t want to rock the boat, but I should have pushed on it a little harder. Either way, honestly, I’m not too too worried. We haven’t started closing it up. We’re still in a decent position to rectify it.
Scheduling the Cement Pour
To keep the ball rolling, Armin is already trying to schedule the cement pour early next week. He said usually he can schedule it like 2 days or so beforehand, but he already reached out to his places and they said it’ll be like a week out at the earliest, so he’s going to call a few more places to see if he can get some place to come sooner.
I’m fine if they can’t come for a few days, because my main worry right now is the alignment of the trench framing. I swear it doesn’t look straight. When Armin comes on Mon, I’m going to break out the ruler and prove for sure one way or the other. I have a feeling I’m going to be right, and he’s going to have to address it before they come and pour.