Erosion permits are biggest scam ever. I'm doing 3 houses and it cost me 5k in engeneer work amd another 3500 for fee ,then another 5k in permit fees for each house. What a rip off
Inspectors can be crazy. Back in the early 2000s my boss went on a cruise and left me in charge of final work on a new home. We were electricians and im only into my first year with no schooling. On the job training. Anyway only final install, outlets, fixtures, whatever and the final inspection were left. I busted my ass for a week getting it perfect. I'd been around many final inspections wirh my boss on other jobs, but this one I was all alone. The day comes when I set up that final with the Inspector. I've tested everything, went over everything 3 times. The guy pulls up, puts the outlet tester in a garage Gfci outlet and says "looks good to me", signs the papers and off he went.
@@Dirtmonkey why on earth would you play music over when youre trying to explain something... i heard absolutely nothing of what you said about the house and the soil explanation cause you blared music the same volume as youre talking... bad editing imo. please stop doing that,
Thank you Stan from every legitimate contractor to homeowner. You have the perfect forum video to call a spade a spade. That inspector is going to go nuts when he finds out he's a for real horses ass.
Back in the mid 80's I bought a house to which I made major renovations. At the time, in our City, there were no legal basement suites, but, it was a registered suite ( found out after purchase that registered meant nothing other making it easier for the City to collect extra taxes, lol). At the time I could have made all my improvements, grandfathering in the original code. I was inspected and approved. A year later the City changed their by-laws, and although suites were still not technically legal I had to get reinspected, but now subject to current code. I was unfortunate enough to get inspected during National Building Inspectors Week. A whole team of inspectors showed up together, and although it was a two story residential building, I got held to 3 story commercial standards. Fortunately I had overbuilt and passed with two minor upgrades. This despite them telling me it was the cleanest suite they'd ever inspected. Replacing the door between suites with a proper firestop door, reasonable. Wiring in a new dedicated circuit for the fridge, new code. Since I had put in a drop ceiling in the kitchen it was easy to run a wire from an adjacent subpanel. When I purchased, in the dining area, the ceiling dry wall was loose and hanging about 4 ft from the floor. Since I had intended to rent the 3br mainfloor and live below, it was easier to simply hang an entire new ceiling with z bar so the the drywall was not directly attached to the joists. This was quicker, easier, probably cheaper and added sound proofing. The new code required firestop drywall in the ceiling but they accepted two layers of 1/2" as an acceptable substitute. A few years later when I started a farm I looked into moving a manufactured home onto the property. The Canadian manufacturers were near the US border so hauling cost was approximately the same and since American homes were better built and cheaper I looked into importing one. For new homes it required an extensive inspection procedure since the codes were different. However, if I got a used one 2 or more years old (30 years ago, it might have been 3 years), no inspection was required. The logical conclusion being that as the homes aged they became safer. lol
Another entertaining and informative video, well done. $554 for a drive-by, what’s next, “I looked on google earth and saw you're good to go!” that’s brutal. I asked a guy once how he removed his inground pool he said, all you have to do is dig down below the frost line to remove the outside walls then just fill it in with whatever. I knew as a kid he was just winging it when he started his description with "ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS....... "
Different type of inspection, but I own some commercial retail property. Had a new tenant going in. Part of the tenant getting their business license, building inspector comes by for a look see. Only thing he found was I needed an "Exit" sign over the front door. "Like a lighted sign, battery backup" I ask. No, just a sign. I go to Walmart, buy one of those $2 plastic signs, a few dobs of silicone adhesive, and paste it over the door. "Perfect" he says. Yeah, makes no sense to me either. Thirty feet of windows, glass doors, only one way in and out. Been that way for fifty years, but now, I need a sign to show people the way out.
We always have to put silt fence and drain screens in before we break ground. That’s the point. Once you make the mess it’s moving around. Needs to be in place before hand
Drain screens are a scam for a fine. Let's be real men here. I've laid tandem trucks a few feet away from fresh loan and even during massive thunderstorms there's barely run off, exception is maybe when there's on culvert and you are dumping on the lowest possible grade.
$30,000+ to build the pool, $30,000+ lower value when selling the home with a pool. Then cost to remove the pool. Build a garage in the back yard and you have something that added value for many years!
Better than having multiple inspectors come out and say something needs to be done multiple different ways. All of which differ from the plans that were submitted and approved.
Being that the State AG is Keith "Corruption" Ellison and the township embezzlement does not directly enrich Ellison's personal bottom line, it would be a complete waste of time lol.
The inspector in my town doubled the fee for my porch because he said he didn't like the contractors attitude. When its signed off this week ill be calling the state AG and see if that's legal.
Inspectors, some good some bad. I was doing plumbing work back in 1980's. Recall one inspector that would drive to job site and just sign off permit. He would see who was doing the work and from previous jobs had a feel for us, just ask how it went and if all good sign it off. We would ask questions on a topic so we had it right, got good feedback and at times told us it didn't matter even thou it was in NEC code book. Recall a different one that always wanted to show you up, he always had to find something. One job he found nothing, he was in and out multiple time and on the phone and finally got us on something so tick tack it just stupid, but a pain to correct. Solution for him. He would get Job done right, then we would mess up something that was easy to fix and spot. He would find it and get on his high horse and post quick fix got signed off. Like every single time he showed up. He missed sh!t that he should have called us out on, but never saw it. Part of the game of Dealing with Gov I learned as a youth.
The Fees the towns in Massachusetts charge for construction and building permits are mostly a Raquet! Some don't even want to come out to inspect! Document everything!
500 bucks is pretty cheap. In my county, you’ll need a site plan if disturbing more than 2,500 SF reviewed and approved BEFORE even getting a permit. Plan submission fee alone is over a grand. Plus whatever your Civil engineer will charge for designing the plan. And, of course, whatever the surveyor charges as well. Permit fees depend on area of disturbance. In short, this job would cost over 5k in engineering, plan design/review and permitting BEFORE the first shovel hits the ground.
Buster crabbe was an olympic gold medal swimmer and went on to act in movies. You may have heard of some of his rolls - the original Tarzan, the original Flash Gordon, the original Buck Rogers being some of his credits.
Is it me or is the channel getting better and better by the episode. 👍🏽 Every episode I learn something new regardless if I'll need the information or not lol but I still enjoy watching the stories and learning lol
Buster Crabbe is a pool manufacturer, when I was in high school I worked at the pool store and we were a Buster Crabbe dealer. I’m not sure about the plywood part, we used plywood to stop the dirt from being directly against the wall.
May be smart to talk to your guys about where they dump and storm sewer inlets and possibly inlet filters if you must have loose soil near them, plugging one can cause a lot of damage and cost a lot of money be glad he didn’t catch that in the erosion inspection!
@@pineknot1929, inlet protections on streets are intended for whenever construction traffic passes by and/or treating runoff in an event other site controls fail. NOT a pass for dumping dirt beside them or putting dumpsters or portable toilets.
Apple valley huh. Doesn't surprise me there. I've done a couple jobs down there and all i can say is if you know the book the book never lies. Real world psshh nope by the book.
Government pensions are expensive. They get at least 2% of their max pay per month for every year they work. Work 25 years get 50% of pay for lifetime plus transfers to spouse if they live longer. That and social security together equals about $60K+ year.
I work for a local city public service dept doing road work. We had a city inspector for road cuts, curb and sidewalks and he had the nickname "DRIVE BY JOHNSON". He never got out of his truck to see if it was compacted correctly with a tester. Then he would call it in to be filled with concrete or asphalt. We would show up and it would be filled with water or back filled with spoils. I had the small Cat Roller sink in a cut one time it was so soft on the fill material. Every utility cut sank at least 2 inches, so the road was a washboard. This was when they were replacing lead water lines, so the road was screwed up all over town
Here you can remove your in ground pool by jus pulling the metal walls or removing the top 12 inches of the what ever the walls are made of and filling it in , It’s the same with foundations .
A few year ago bought a new truck 4500 dodge custom chip body bought truck end of November didn’t get truck till Jan bought in Nj coming home was stopped on turnpike by Pa state DOT for no inspection sticker made me have it towed 80 grand 200 miles on truck trooper said he could let me drive because it may not be roadworthy 🤦
Damn it's crazy all the things u need to get permits for n engineers to design n approve plans for. In my town in NY we don't need any of these things for half the jobs I've seen u talk about in vids let alone inspectors annoying us at job sites😂😂. Even the towns right around me require way more approval by officials n inspectors. It's good u do great work n do it the right way so u don't have to worry about anyone questioning how you do a job. Keep up the great work n educational vids😁😁😁
The great silt fence scam. We see them all over here up in B.C. Canada. Cost the construction industry millions. I have never seen them last more than a few days and they are all broken.Most of the time installed in areas that don't make a bit of sense. Who knows if they even work in the first place?
Not a gunite bottom. It’s a liner pool with what’s known as a hard bottom. Usually it’s a Portland cement and vermiculite mix. Some guys just mix Portland and sand to like a dry pack consistency.
I'm thinking he either emailed you a certificate or something approving the silt fence OR said you shouldn't have started before the silt fence was approved.😂
I've seen some of those buster crabb pools, Build a plywood box with reinforcing outside. put a plastic liner in it, construction sheeting fine, and fill it with water. Now I've been wanting to build some sort of floating pool to help with my back pain and that just might be the perfect solution for it. Cheap enough I can tear it down if it doesn't work out, without losing a bunch of money.
@Stanley Dirt Monkey This applies to any contractor out ther as well bound by permits and inspections. Don't ever let an inspector get away with rubber stamping your work. That's a recipe for a lawsuit. If you ever find an inspector who's habitually doing this start documenting it. Once you have an established we'll documented patern of them not showing up and signing off then talk to the inspector about it. If they don't respond or blow you off, reach out to their direct report manager or supervisor. Ensure you've documented when they said they'd show up for the inspections and if they let you if they are rescheduling or not.
Really surprised you don't go with a rolloff trailer or truck for soil delivery. Build a ramp that allows the skid steer to go into the trailer and there is no dirt on the street and no cleanup.
Dang. Over $500 bones for the silt fence permit and under $100 for the actual building permit...and the inspector just drives on by, literally. That's BS. And highway robbery! But if you want to be in this business you gotta put up with mess like this. Necessary evil I guess.
Stan I did a job at a huge landfill and it was a 23ft cut to the invert of our pipe , we had to put the material back in 1ft lifts and have every lift tested with the density machine . There was one section I particular that the ground was like total jello bit when they tested it passed with flying colors everytime I thought the guy was crazy passing it but about 2 months later I had to go back and run a 12 inch rcp pipe across that area with a backhoe ....I couldn't even get the teeth of the machine in the ground it had tightened up so hard we had to ditch the backhoe and dig it with a 320 excavator and that even struggled I couldn't believe it !!!
These extreme permit fees or why jobs are becoming so expensive homeowners don't understand why you charge so much. It's ridiculous anymore you're going to have to have an engineer draw up a site plan just to plant some trees. I'm very fortunate the town I live in the building official is a very reasonable person he's an ex contractor so he understands what you have to go through and he does his best to limit the cost of the permits the best he can.
Buster Crabbe won a gold medal in swimming at the 1932 Olympics. He then went on to be the first actor to play Tarzan in the movies and built a business selling swimming pools.
Hey Stan would like to know more re soil bridging with compaction it may be in the next episode but just asking as I need to solve a problem. Thanks Aussie Jeff Moore
My neighborhood where my family lived growing up, had five Buster Crabb pools. The first one we suspect was done either for free or for a severely reduced price so they could show that off and sell more to the close neighbors. Eventually, 6 were built and Everyone failed, everyone had to be re-done or demo'd within 5 years. This was back in the late 70's and early 80's. My Dad was almost lured into building one. Thank goodness they started to fail right when he was almost pulling the trigger to get one installed.
Cant wait to see the video where he goes through his soil delivery invoices, and I hope he does one about the compacter hire invoice that's worth at least a 2 hr tape. I cant get enough of these things. And why cant he show his trips to and from work with the camera pointed at his face for the whole trip I for one would love to get a good look at his beard,
I had an electrical inspector come out to inspect the wiring on a hot tub on an existing deck that was designed to support a hot tub in a particular area on the deck. Electrical inspector said, "where's the building permit?" I replied, "For what?" He said, "For the deck." I said, "The deck is pre-existing and I already have final approval "pass" on the deck." So I had to go to the permit office, talk to them, re-submit the "already approved" deck plans and inspection pass/approval stickers from the final inspection. At that point I get a letter in the mail from the county permit office that I need to get a structural engineer to approve the deck for the deck/hot tub build... even though it was signed off originally by the building architect with detailed info regarding load weight, location of the hot tub on the deck, structural support, etc. I hooked up with a local structural engineer, who inspected and signed off on the deck/hot tub (not cheap). County building inspector comes out for less than 2 minute walk around the deck and gives me the final building inspection "pass" approval sticker. Funny thing, he complimented on how well built the deck was. At that point, I'm able to get the county electrical inspector out for his inspection and "pass" approval sticker for the electrical hook up of the hot tub. At that point, we were happy, we put water in it, primed it, turned on the jets only to find out it had a manifold leak at the bottom of the hot tub!!!! What a nightmare!
It’s kind of weird, the high speed makes it look like you’re not actually bringing any dirt back, but you can tell your track walking some freshly laid dirt. Lol.
Anytime I have to deal with any form of government on any level I get triggered.....there is just so much BS!!!!! (maybe because they are incorporated)
You have been around long enough to know that some inspectors have an ego bigger than there brain and love the power thing. The same with the city amount the dirt as soon as you are done you will clean it up.
Perhaps i dont know the whole story but this seems to me that the employer is asking the employee what permits are required. When i was a contractor that kind of knowledge was my responsibility and i always took that seriously and never deferred to anyone else for that knowledge
No excuse for the inspector not stopping by to do their job, but I wonder if the silt fence inspection fee is to cover Conservation District filing fees or something? Here in PA the Township or Borough is in charge of small project inspections on behalf of the Conservation District which then gets sent to the DEP since the CD doesn't have enough people
Not that simple. All that silt ends up in regional (and private) stormwater infrastructure and facilities - some are expensive underground systems. And clean up of those facilities is in the tens of thousands of dollars - straight out of taxpayer pockets. So… yes, $0.65 for linear foot of silt fence is a bargain.
I wish I could come work with you guys for couple days I worked at a company called plants rus Plus from Madison Ohio for 22 year's we did the same exact kind of work and your guys are replicas to ours my brother larry also worked with us he was your Alex my roll was your Franky but I worked on the job sites anyways my boss Ted pauley passed away kinda unexpectely a month ago he was or is a legend in our try county area or bigger I miss the good old day's and I always compared us to your Crew so I now get little more comfort in your videos and I love you guys BTW and make sure you let your Crew know how much they mean to you because believe it or not they really really look up to you and they need you for more than just a pay check trust me I know from experience
This permit stuff is getting out of control. If your doing a job the right way, getting rid of material the right way and involving the two or city so they know it’s right they shouldn’t charge extra for showing up.
I'm just curious love the videos thanks for all the info what happens when you finish the job so fast that the inspector doesn't have a chance to look at the fence or if he decides to come it whenever he wants to and you're completed 100% with the job
When I had my roof done the inspector came by and because I have a 3 story colonial he had to go into neighbors yard to see one side of it. Asked me if I had any leaks. Said no then he signed a piece of paper and handed to me and left. $250 for that.
