City Plan Revisions

Good Morning! Happy Saturday! I’m eating oats and drinking water, no coffee until later at work. Not really listening to anything, just starting my day by writing quietly, next to my cat who is screaming. It’s been a productive week. I was able to communicate the goal of getting a signed temporary occupancy form between the city, my original engineer, and my new HVAC guy. It seemed like we had it in the bag to complete and turn in on Friday, but the city inspector didn’t approve.

The city doesn’t believe our plans will work and would like another revision.

Our plans as drawn originally had us drilling through the roof to install a new bathroom and closet fan, which we wanted to avoid. So we planned on connecting these fans to the existing exhaust instead which would be much simpler, but the city believes our fans would overpower the existing pressure and push bad air back inside the building.

We don’t think this will be an issue, but playing telephone in a trade I’m unfamiliar with is difficult. Another major problem is that I’m working with our original drawings that have outdated information. Since our hvac guy and engineer still believe this will work, we need to better communicate how. So our goal this week will either be to draw new plans, or somehow communicate our intent in a way that satisfies the city.

The good news is

Once the city understands our intent or we’ve created new plans that satisfy them, we should be good to open. We’re food safe and generally safety safe, our air system is working now, we’re just trying to show that we have intent to update the air system in the near future.

Here’s hoping we can quickly get this done and open soon, have a great weekend everyone. -Elias