Ahhhh, yes, the building inspector must be kept happy... We have two here in Page County and fortunately I get along well with both of them... We had a 3rd who thankfully is gone... On the spec house I built a couple years ago I called for an inspection to pour the garage floor... Well, garage floors tend to crack so I dug down an extra 14 inches from side to side and put in my re-rod... That is the way that all garage floors are done in NoVa. and they call that a "poured beam" and gives the slab much needed structural integrity... So pain'the-the-butt Charie came out, took one look at it and asked, "What the hell is that???" Guess he was swo used to seein' people just pour 4 inches without the "poured beam" that he didn't know what to think about someone pouring a floor that would not crack???

So Charlie failed me and told me that I was going to have to not only get the "poured beam" engineered but also bring in a soil engineer???

That little ballgame cost me right at $1000 and an month setback because I was doing something right???

Go figure...

Wasn't all all disappointed to hear that Charlie had been laid off...

B~