above and beyond
I am currently dealing with a client from Russia. He speaks much better English than I do Russian but that isn’t saying a lot. He is placing a double wide trailer on a lot in Sevierville. It turns out that the lot is located in a flood plain and that is where I come in.
I was contacted by the city after the client hired another surveyor and neither the client nor the city official was able to contact him for more work. They needed me to determine the height of the floor to establish if it had been placed 1 foot above the 100 year flood. Well, it had and then was needing the block underpinning.
I instructed the owner (best I could) on how many flood vents needed to be installed and where they had to be (within one foot of the ground). I was later called by the client’s block mason to re-explain the flood vents. I was in town a week or so later and stopped by to see if he was ready for me to prepare the final elevation certificate.
He wasn’t. There were supposed to be 24 flood vents and there were only 6 and only 1 in the correct location. I reported this to the city so that he could get it fixed before it effected his flood insurance.
The client called on Saturday and wanted me to come and explain how he messed up and how to fix it. Needless to say, I ended up going and painting on the existing block.
Now I am waiting for him to get this fixed so that I can make up the elevation certificate so he can get his power turned on. I didn’t realize that as a land surveyor, I was responsible for teaching people how to build a house.
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