ITM of Residential Hi-Rise Type Occupancies and Client / Owner Rep Escorts

[fpssdave]

Quick question to get a feel for how this issue is addressed elsewhere:

Our job as an inspection provider is to do ITM as per NFPA 25 and provide a report. It is not:
* Having to explain to belligerent tenants what we are doing and why,
* Having to deal with the site of naked passed out tenants,
* Having to fiddle with a dozen sets of keys (twice for finicky locks) to gain access,
* Having to deal with dogs, cats, snakes, spiders, lizards, and other assorted pets,
* Having to deal with finding hard drugs on the coffee table and closed bedroom doors down the hallway,
* Having to deal with finding a lone baby seemingly abandoned in a suite,
* etc., etc., ad nauseum.

I spoke with others and it's all over the map, but essentially a lot of inspections don't actually appear to ever get properly done. Owners have inspections completed, get sent reports with a blurb (absolving the contractor of liability) to the effect that access to certain suites was not available, and that's the end of it till the following year.

If a complete inspection, done the way it's supposed to be, was like a paint job on a car, my guess is there would be an awful lot of vehicles driving around with primer showing. Yes it's the owners car and he's responsible for it in the end. But the job is not done. I'm not overly OCD, but this kind of thing rubs me the wrong way.

Thoughts?

 

[MatthewJWillis]

EVERY inspection I conducted was Complete. I have hundreds of stories.

Do the inspection and look at every sprinkler.. The rest does not matter.

R/
Matt

 

[LCREP]

As an insurance engineer I took the inspection report with a big grain of salt. I would look at the report and ask the client how much was this inspection, or just look at the invoice attached to it. Love those 10 riser sites for $175, yea they looked at every sprinkler. OR the 10 pages of things to correct, you get any of this stuff done ......NOPE, they were just looking for $$$$.We never give those pages to the AHJ, since they never asked for it!! Wait did the AHJ see all the NO answers, or "see comments section" ????? When I teach AHJ seminars I always tell them to read the report NOT to just file it!!!'

 

[cdafd]

Tx requirements

After attaching a yellow tag, the service person or inspector must notify the building owner or the building owner's representative and the authority having jurisdiction in writing of all noncompliant conditions. The notification must be postmarked, e-mailed, faxed or hand delivered within five business days of the attachment of the yellow tag.




Immediately after attaching a red tag, the inspector or service person must orally notify the building owner or the building owner's representative and, where available, the authority having jurisdiction of all impairments. The inspector or service person must also provide written notice to the building owner or the building owner's representative and, where available, the authority having jurisdiction of all impairments, and the written notice must be postmarked, e-mailed, faxed or hand delivered within twenty-four hours of the attachment of the red tag


As an ahj do we see the reports???

Not normally

 

[fpssdave]

MatthewJWillis (Mechanical)2 Jun 16 17:59
EVERY inspection I conducted was Complete. I have hundreds of stories.

Do the inspection and look at every sprinkler.. The rest does not matter.

R/
Matt

I'd say you should publish those stories as a guide then. I have been doing inspections since 25 was but a wet dream in the back of 13, so I have a few as well - a few that have scarred me psychologically (think naked passed out drunks), and a few that have scared the begeezuz out of me (think Rottweiler). You cannot tell me the "rest does not matter". I'm Canadian. We can't pack heat into an inspection my friend.

Regards
Dave

 

[MatthewJWillis]

LOL..

Well the stern looks of 2 gentlemen getting dressed, while the female sits on the bed in a sheet, tend to jade you some..