Submitted by mike banker on Sat, 07/30/2005 - 11:07pm.
I'm a general contractor in portland and I'm fed up with waiting for building inspectors to show up for my inspections. You can request that they come between 8am and 12pm or between 12pm and 5pm but they rarely even stick to those big windows of time. You can rarely get a hold of them at the planning office to find out their schedule for the day and when you do they don't stick to it. They also don't call you and tell you "hey i'm going to be an hour or two or three later than I told you. I typically wait an average of 4 hours for inspectors to show up regardless of what time they say they're coming. When I was in sales I had more sales appointments than these inspectors have inspections and I made it to 95% of my meetings on time and if I was going to be late I called with a revised time. We are living in the cell phone age you know! Why can't an inspector live by the same rules that we do in the private sector and be held accountable for making people wait?
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re: How would you improve Portland?
I'm a general contractor in portland and I'm fed up with waiting for building inspectors to show up for my inspections. You can request that they come between 8am and 12pm or between 12pm and 5pm but they rarely even stick to those big windows of time. You can rarely get a hold of them at the planning office to find out their schedule for the day and when you do they don't stick to it. They also don't call you and tell you "hey i'm going to be an hour or two or three later than I told you. I typically wait an average of 4 hours for inspectors to show up regardless of what time they say they're coming. When I was in sales I had more sales appointments than these inspectors have inspections and I made it to 95% of my meetings on time and if I was going to be late I called with a revised time. We are living in the cell phone age you know! Why can't an inspector live by the same rules that we do in the private sector and be held accountable for making people wait?