More gas problems

[bobquasit]

Teri called City Hall, and they can get an inspector to check out our work on Friday - BUT.

It turns out that the people who did the work - Plumbing Solutions - were supposed to pull a permit from the city before doing the work. Without a permit, the work cannot be inspected and the gas cannot be reconnected.

The permit can be pulled retroactively, but Plumbing Solutions will have to do that; we can't do it ourselves, of course.

Teri called Plumbing Solutions, and they're going to check our file and get back to us.

Comments

[moonlitmagik.livejournal.com]

god!!!!!!!! what the fuck else is gonna happen with that?? why cant things be simple for once

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

Well, I was tempted to do another post saying "I'm writing this from the police station, because I'm being booked for violating the city ordinance on having unauthorized gas line work done" - but the truth is, the company has apparently gone back and got the necessary permit, and the inspector is going to come out on Friday morning. I don't know how long it will take for him/her to contact National Grid and for us to get our gas back, though.

In the meantime we're going to be grilling, using the crock pot, and eating out more.

[moonlitmagik.livejournal.com]

eating out more.. just what you need

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

So essentially you've got people working on the stuff who aren't fully conscious of the routines and legalities involved with this work. Lovely. This is the sort of thing that makes Libertarians, ya know.

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

Why? If those guys were too clueless to know they needed a permit, I don't see how the answer is to eliminate the permitting process (annoying though it might be). They might also be too clueless to hook up the gas properly, and we'd all end up gassed to death - or blown to bits!

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

Oh, certainly, absolutely, fur sure dude. :)

But Libertarian Logic might say that Regulations just get in the way of people trying to do their jobs and make it all more expensive and cause it all to take longer. And if you blow up you can just sue so who needs regulations anyway?

My point was more that this is the sort of thing that Small Government advocates point at out of total context to promote their views, ignoring that regulations weren't just created by evil psychos in a mad scientist lab but were and are responses to real and actual problems.