More Holes!

So just when we get all the plumbing fixed and finished patching all the holes in the walls, the city inspector (not the FHA inspector) came out to close out the plumbing permit, but decided to ask to see behind all of our walls.  We hadn't replaced anything in the walls.  We were only required to install the plumbing missing where the exposed horizontal pipes in the basement were, however, our contractor had the guys open up the walls.  Upon seeing all of the plumbing, the inspector said that ALL of our plumbing had to be switched out and our contractor quoted us another 12k for the work.  Pretty ridiculous considering we're going to be tearing down all these walls next year and completely MOVING  most of the plumbing.

We told the contractor he was crazy (not in those words exactly), and decided to bring in our own plumber who we've used for our other buildings. He said there was nothing wrong with any of our plumbing and that it was up to code and it was pretty new anyways.  So we decided to just leave the permits open until we complete the work next year and told the contractor to patch up the walls AGAIN.