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Photos: Massive snow fort on Ellicott Street

By Howard B. Owens

 

Somebody has built a large snow fort on Ellicott Street, in the city, in front of St. Joe's Cemetery. It looks like the developer used one of the city's blue recycling buckets to pack snow in and then piled the blocks on top of each other.

Ricky G. Hale

Did they get it inspected and a c.o. from the city? Does it have the required bathrooms inside per code? Did they pay their $125 contractors fee? Do they have proper workers comp & liability? Did they have the required enginered drawings and building permit? What about the enviromental impact study? Did they bring it before the planning board?

Sounds a little silly, but these are just a few of the things you have to do to build something. The list goes on and on.

Feb 3, 2011, 8:01am Permalink
Ricky G. Hale

John,
I forgot about the wage rate, did they pay Davis-Bacon and certified payroll? Also, good point about the snow melting. Did they do a perk test? Do they need a storm run-off analysis and engineered retention pond? Did they do a soil bearing test? Come to think about it, did they do a traffic impact study? They're turning an awfull lot of necks.
Add all this crap to my previous post, and what do you get? If you what to build something, you might as well quit before you start, and save yourself the aggravation.

Feb 3, 2011, 1:08pm Permalink
Ricky G. Hale

One other thing, did they have a $5 million dollar insurance policy that is commonly required on most larger jobs now-a-days, and indemnify the owner?

Feb 3, 2011, 1:31pm Permalink

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