Electric co: your water line must be sealed & all obstructions cleared.
Me: ok, so that’s incoming water main, so if we do A B & C will that meet your requirements?
Electric co: your water line must be sealed & all obstructions cleared.
@Beanc They really have no imagination
@b4cks4w lol I just wanted a preapproval.
I think I kind of got it… they finally said that’s between me, my plumber, and the city, which is all good with me.
@Beanc 
Good luck. If it's Chicago I'd say put a folded $50 under some cookies for the inspector. YMMV
@b4cks4w
Lmao: but how can I do so if you won’t tell me what they are 😭
@Beanc The plumber is good, right? Maybe they get the cookies.
I'm cultivating long term relationships with plumbers, electricians and HVAC techs right now. The ones that actually know what they're doing, not that one sparky who tried to burn the house down.
@b4cks4w yeah… dunno. I haven’t yet found a good one I trust.
We’ll see what tomorrow brings.
I would try to cultivate such relationships, if I could find them.
I’ve had a number of referrals, but my plumbing ones haven’t really hit yet.
1 ghosted, one told me to check with the city on code requirements and doesn’t want to permit, one is suuuuper-sales-ey and one told me my falling apart pipes are fine.
So… onto plumber # 5….
Got a great electrician though. HVAC seemed fine 🤷♀️
@EileenKCarpenter @b4cks4w yeah I do that too.