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In 2008/2009 I was both the General and Electrical contractor for our 8500 square foot office building renovation. The building had been a machine shop. Do I have stories!!
I had great inspectors, and I had used the hvac and plumbing subs for home and our old office for years so basically I had a lot of outside support.
I remember one instance when we were putting up the ceiling tiles and an electrical inspector came by. He looked at the inspection records and noticed I hadn't had an insulation inspection. I didn't even know I needed one! We had about 1/3 of the tiles up and were working against a hard deadline. It would have been disastrous if I had to take all the tile down and wait for an inspector. The electrical guy called the inspector who would have looked at the insulation, talked to him for a while, and signed off on the insulation.
In another instance we were putting up exhaust fans in the men's and women's restrooms. The drawings had a fan with twice the CFM for the men's room than for the women's room. I thought it must be a mistake and put the same small fan in both. Mistake. The fan requirement is based on the devices in each room. Since the men's room had a urinal as well as toilet, it needed twice as much air flow. That one still makes no sense to me.
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