At various stages, your work will need to be inspected by the building department. It is your responsibility to request the appropriate inspections, to assure that the work is complete and ready for inspection, and to assure that inspectors have access to that work. When the permit is issued, the general contractor is given a “field inspection card” which must be conspicuously posted within ten feet of the front door (or future front door).

As each inspection is approved, the inspector will initial its corresponding line on the field inspection card. The general contractor is also given a set of approved (redlined) plans, which must be on the job-site in a conspicuous location for every inspection.

Inspections are performed to assure compliance with approved plans as well as specific code requirements. If these approved plans are not at the job site, the inspector will not perform the inspection.

We recognize that changes are often necessary or desired as construction of a project proceeds. However, if these changes are not first reviewed and approved by a plans examiner, the inspector will reject the work for failing to comply with approved plans.