Re-inspection fee?

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inspector23

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Just curious -

Does your jurisdiction require a re-inspection fee after failing the first inspection of each type? Say at rough-in, something was missed. Do you get charged a re-fee if you cannot correct it right away?

Here, it is left to the inspector’s discretion. If the problem cannot be corrected in a short time while the inspector is there, then we leave a correction notice with a re-inspect fee notice. They can reschedule an inspection once the fee had been paid.

We were getting too many tract hacks expecting us to walk their jobs and provide a punch list – for free.

Do you get a second chance without a charge?

Just wondering what others are experiencing….
 
inspector23 said:
Does your jurisdiction require a re-inspection fee after failing the first inspection of each type?

Do you get a second chance without a charge?
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From what I hear, we get one re-inspection free, but I've never failed an inspection on work I personally was involved in, and never a second one for any of my guys, so we've never faced that.
 
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We try to work with our contractors but we are difinately more strict with the production builders, and tend to hold the mom and pops hand. I will charge a reinspection fee if the item is a repeated violation(s). We are a small jurisdication and don't have time to write punch lists, and our fee is brutal compared with the last jurisdication I worked with. Good luck
 
$35 here. Sorry to say, I just had to pay but it was a good learning experience, Most of my experience is in industrial but I talked with the inspector and she filled he in on what they expect ( a little different then the code ).
 
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when I inspected for a local government and was on salary, with a government vehicle, gas, etc., the policy was no charge for reinspection unless the initial problem was not correctd on the 2nd trip. With the STATE we are paid by the inspection...you don't follow code and I have to drive 15 miles back to your job on my time, in my vehicle..yep! you're going to get charged a reinspect..but it's only $ 27.
 
IMO when you've plunked downed quite a few dollars for permits you deserve a follow up inspection for free. I see a problem with giving someone a financial incentive to find something wrong.
 
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infinity said:
IMO when you've plunked downed quite a few dollars for permits you deserve a follow up inspection for free. I see a problem with giving someone a financial incentive to find something wrong.
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Trevor: I guess one way of looking at the whole process is that you are paying someone to find something wrong (or from the "glass is full" standpoint, paying for someone to certify that nothing appears to be wrong.
If that person incurrs additional expense to provide you this service (as opposed to the job next door), should he not be reinbursed for that expense ?
 
Here the permit application states "Re-inspection fee $25.00", but it is rarely applied. The only re-nspection I had the fee was never charged.
 
infinity said:
IMO when you've plunked downed quite a few dollars for permits you deserve a follow up inspection for free. I see a problem with giving someone a financial incentive to find something wrong.
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If your customer forgot to tell you of something they needed for installation, and you have to come back after leaving the initial installation, you would do that for free???
Inspection fees are not all that high, and the inspection process has grown in cost with gas/insurance/ benies/overhead...

I tell our prospective customers if you want us to hire better inspectors, we need to pay them more, train them more, etc... that does not come for free.

We have a time schedule. To have to go back to a job for what sometimes is really standard electric 101, it screws up our schedule for another contractor waiting for us to show up on his/her job...then they get ticked off...now you may understand why some inspectors may be in a sour mood when they get to your job. Oh yeah, part of our training is how to handle oneself professionally on the job, so you do not see us getting upset. That is very hard to do some days.


P.S. one way to help alleviate being charged extra is to be present on the job during the inspection. ;)
 
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1st reinspection fee is $60, 2nd is $60, then doubles with each reinspection after that. There is no financial incentive for changing reinspect fees and it is also not a punishment or fine. The fact of the matter is that permiting fees pay for a certain amount of inspections, and any inspections in excess of that due to non-compliance or not being ready, ect. will be be feed.
 
My town has an insulation inspection. In residential, if I write up a list of corrections on the permit, the contractor can take care of it by that time. If not corrected at insulation, they may receive a re-inspect fee. For commercial inspections, we're on site for partial inspections alot. So we just catch the corrections at that time.
 
We do like Augie47 said, you get one reinspection and then the third one cost you.

I also agree that someone must pay for any extra time we spend on the job. On lets say a new residential there should only be three electrical inspections, UFER, rough, Final. That's all you really paid for if we have to come back on each of those that's six inspections just for electrical.
 
In our jurisdication you get one reinspect without charge. However, if I show up and you are not really ready for an inspection and I am writing a punch list instead of actual corrections, I will assess a reinspect fee to come back when you are actually ready for an inspection. Our jurisdiction is really sticky about have an address posted that is visible from the street, plans on site and permit on site. If these items are not there you will be charged a reinspect fee and the inspection will not be done.
 
Here, if violations are found on the initial inspection you get a "return" trip with no charge (this applies for roughs, trenches, finals, etc...).

If, for whatever reason, the corrections have not been made from the initial inspection there is a $50 re-inspection fee. I am not a fan of providing a "punch-list" either, but we have no department policy in place to handle that situation and I find that it doesn't happen that often (thankfully).

Pete
 
Pierre C Belarge said:
P.S. one way to help alleviate being charged extra is to be present on the job during the inspection. ;)
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No one is ever at the site anymore!:confused: When I was a field worker I waited for 2 days for an inspector, but wanted/had to be there.

I agree with the majority, unless I get carpal tunnel on your site or you did something really dumb, I will catch the changes on the next inspection and waive the fees.

I believe that if the tax dollars fund the budget of a department you will get more leniency than if they are self sufficient.
 
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I stated our jursidication re-inspection fee's were brutal. I forgot to tell you they are $174.39 each!
 
barbeer said:
I believe that if the tax dollars fund the budget of a department you will get more leniency than if they are self sufficient.
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I guess it is a philosophical difference in any viewpoint. Our municipality Building Official feels that if you use the service, you should pay for the service. Why penalize the guy who cares enough to do it right the first time by increasing his fees to cover re-inspections for guys that don?t/won?t take the time or materials to make their project code compliant?

Obviously there is some discretion left to the inspector, but for the most part, we try to stick with a fairly strict standard. Keeps it a level playing field for everyone.
 
barbeer said:
I agree with the majority, unless I get carpal tunnel on your site ... I will catch the changes on the next inspection and waive the fees. .
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I saw a framing red tag that the inspector must have decided that he didn't want carpel tunnel that day either. The framing was super bad, even to my eye. The red tag said simply, "Not ready for inspection. Call when ready for re-inspection".
 
Many of the inspection depts near me define in their local codes or license apps. that you get one rough and one final inspection. They all tend to allow for more visits if your job items and fees total more than the minimum fee.
That said...I've over heard one company's owner complaining at a supply house that he should be entitled to as many as four inspections off a minimum fee permit. Permits tend to start at $50 in most locals here. I wonder if he would even do a single trip service call for $50.
 
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