The Char-Meck Building Office Strikes Again.

So I go down to the building permit office today. For the third time in two days. And I find out that my original contractor (JFK Constrction) has tried to have my most recent permit cancelled because I signed it myself. Huh?? Apparently, it's not OK for me to sign my own permit applications. Of course, JFK is the one who TOLD me to go pull my own permit in the first place! Apparently, the problem is that in order for me to be able to pull my own permit, I have to put my own name -- not the name of the bozo who's actually doing the work -- down under the general contractor section. You'd think that one of the two times I got the permit pulled, somebody at the building construction office would have bothered to tell me this, especially when I asked for help filling the first application out and I told them that I had no idea what I was doing. Instead of cancelling the most recent permit, though, the building office had the good sense to call Denis the Drywall Guy and get him to come down and sign the permit. (Apparently them asking him to do it was much more persuasive than the five times I asked him to do it.) And this time, the building office was able to call the plumber and get him to agree to send the application in himself through a computer.

This mess was all precipitated by the inspection this morning. I left the inspector a note to call me and let me know if it was OK for the drywall to proceed. The inspector called and said no, and said that I 1) first had to have an electrical rough inspection; 2) had to have a plumbing inspection because of the plumbing work in the bathroom (um, hello, why are you in my bathrooms anyway when the permit was limited to the kitchen?); 3) THEN could call in for a framing inspection; 4) and would then have to insulate and have an insullation inspection before I could put on drywall. Dude. For one thing, I explicitly asked my electrician if I needed another electrical inspection first, and he told me I didn't.

I will never, ever, ever use another contractor who insists on getting the city involved in my project. If it weren't for the permit/inspection process, the drywall could have been FINISHED two weeks ago.

For the love of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, PLEASE, SOMETHING go right!!!!!