Exiting Structures IRC {Ref.R102.7}
What kind of inspector do I need. One with experinece,education,certified master inspector.
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As a building inspector I have heard some pretty ugly stories from agents that had people so in love with a home until a in experienced inspector arrives on the scene.Writing up as many small items to justify the knowledge.If your a agent reading this story you know excattly what I'm talking about.Every little thing an inspector writes up is not required to meet certain standards that many inspector seem to write in their report. Education of housing codes,and experience is something that is not givin to any building inspector. Certain materials could have been aproved at administarion levels.
There are a number of features common to all of the International Codes. Each code begins by stating its scope of application. The scope establishes the range of buildings, uses,construction,equipment, and systems to which the particular code applies. A purpose statement follows the scope and includes the intent of the code to provide standards to protect the health,safety, and welfare of the public.
The bottom line,is this: All new and resale homes have defects, regardless of the competence and integrity of the builder or the construction supervisor or repair contractors through the years that may have performed repairs. If this were not the case, the essential imperfection of humanity would be disproved.
Provisions allowing the legal occupancy of Home or building to continue without fully complying with current codes are often referred to as grandfathering or Grandfather clause. The IRC provides such relief for exiting structures.To impose regulations to bring exiting homes into current compliance would be impracticle and unreasonable and would penalize home owners that complied with appilicable laws at the time of their construction.Of course,if, due to the lack of maintance or repairs fall below the general acceptable threshold for sanitation,health,safety, and welfare of the occupants, the IRC requires corrections in accordance with specfic code provisions referenced of the IPMC or the IFC.
Only modification or addition need to comply with current code. These things are such as having water
heater replaced,or heating systems,New electrical Panel up grades, room additions that may alter exting
structure load transfers.
As a inspector performing a inspection on a older home as long as the foundation,electrical,plumbing,roof framing,application of material are in good order,and have no water infiltration hidden in wall cavitys that house drain and supply plumbing lines,No electrical safety concerns,No differential settlement or soil eroision,then I let the buyer know what is going on behind the scenes through years of experience
and education and field experience.
Additons, alterations, or repairs cannot cause any portion of the structure to become unsafe or adversely
affect the buildings performance. If an addition framing improperly impeded the means of egress to the out doors, added excessiveloading to existing structure members,overloaded the electrical system, or exceeded the capacity of the plumbing DMV system, then these areas would have to comply with code standards.
Permissive code for older structure such as GFCI,AFCI circuits could be ask to be added for safety only
on exiting homes.
The Uniform Codes Act is codified at chapter 2 of title 8 of The Official Code of Georgia Annotated. O.C.G.A. Section 8-2-20(9)(B) identifies the ten "state minimum standard codes". Each of these separate codes typically consist of a base code (e.g. The International Building Code as published by the International Code Council) and a set of Georgia amendments to the base code. Georgia law further dictates that eight of these codes are "mandatory" are applicable to all construction whether or not they are locally enforced.
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