It was bound to happen, what with English, Korean, and Spanish freely spoken around our construction site...
On Thursday we scheduled the building inspection, and although I thought I had mentioned that there were to be separate inspectors for building, plumbing, and electrical, the message did not get through. The contractor is used to working in cities where one individual performs all three inspections, so when I told him the building inspector was coming at 1:00 p.m., he told the plumber to be ready for the plumbing inspection.
The plumber was pretty miffed when the inspector finished with the rebar inspection and prepared to leave. "Aren't you going to inspect the plumbing?" he asked. He had rigged up the whole system to run water through in order to test the plumbing connections. Our inspector replied, with his thick Irish brogue, "You'll be needin' the plumbing inspector for that there."
The contractor, plumber, and I all pointed fingers at one another: "I thought YOU called the plumbing inspector!" we exclaimed in unison.
We have all agreed that from now on, R and I will arrange all inspections.
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