Inspection person's

[Scouter]

A friend down the street sold his house, but before the sale can go through the "occupancy inspector" (apparently different than the building inspector) is requiring him to put GFI's all over the place. Every outlet in the kitchen, bath, and laundry room. Not one per line, every single outlet. Anyone else ever run into this?

[Splinter Puller]

A friend down the street sold his house, but before the sale can go through the "occupancy inspector" (apparently different than the building inspector) is requiring him to put GFI's all over the place. Every outlet in the kitchen, bath, and laundry room. Not one per line, every single outlet. Anyone else ever run into this?

No. That sounds stupid.  Why not put in GFCI breakers.

[Scouter]

No. That sounds stupid.  Why not put in GFCI breakers.

I asked him that, even asked about what I have - a whole-house breaker - but he said no, the "inspector" wants what he wants, no deviations.

[joe1086]

Sounds so dumb it may be a miscommunication. Bit if not, the Occupancy Inspector reports to somebody. Find that person.

[paulWoodworker]

It's a power trip.. The same thing happened to me when I sold my first house.
Some "inspector" insisted every outlet had to be GFCI. I had already moved to another state, had to pay someone to do it.
Very annoying and a waste of money.
One per line is fine.
I think some inspectors just feel like they have to find something, in order to validate themselves.
When they can't find anything legit, they make up something.

[Scouter]

It's a power trip.. The same thing happened to me when I sold my first house.
Some "inspector" insisted every outlet had to be GFCI. I had already moved to another state, had to pay someone to do it.
Very annoying and a waste of money.
One per line is fine.
I think some inspectors just feel like they have to find something, in order to validate themselves.
When they can't find anything legit, they make up something.

That, and they know they have you by the balls. The house is, tentatively, sold but can't close until it passes inspection. No time to take him to court to force the issue because the buyers will just cancel and move on, next time he will find something else wrong just to get even, and the whole process continues.

[brianwelch]

It's a power trip.. The same thing happened to me when I sold my first house.
Some "inspector" insisted every outlet had to be GFCI. I had already moved to another state, had to pay someone to do it.
Very annoying and a waste of money.
One per line is fine.
I think some inspectors just feel like they have to find something, in order to validate themselves.
When they can't find anything legit, they make up something.

I see what you did there...clever...

[blackhat]

Find the “inspector’s” boss. This plick needs fired.

[Cooler]

We had an OSHA inspector come to our facility.  He gave us a fine for a broken ladder (it was in the dumpster and a new ladder was in the building).  And he plugged in a tester in every outlet in our building and told us to replace the ones that did not show a satisfactory reading. 

He was doing the easy things--the things that did not require any thinking.

The ladder thing was crazy.  It was in the dumpster. He said that someone could have taken the ladder out of the dumpster and used it. We said, "Why would anyone take it out of the dumpster when there was a brand new ladder in the building?"

He said that someone could have taken it out, we should have cut it to pieces to be safe.  I said, "If we cut the 12-foot ladder to 3-foot lengths, you would have fined us for having four defective ladders in the dumpster."

Starting pay for these inspectors is about $30,000.00 (check with Indeed! and see).  So don't expect too much from them.

[mdhills]

is this inspection required by the municipality, or is it a contingency from the buyer's lender?
Matt