Stop 6 of 8 · Weekly
Permits and inspections
A checklist per phase, the portal record read for you, and a correction notice turned into work by trade.
Phases, not one big list
The city does not care about the job, it cares about the phase. Foundation, framing, rough mechanical and electrical and plumbing, insulation, drywall nail, final. Each has its own card, its own trades that must be finished first, and its own handful of things that fail. A checklist per phase, built from this job's approved set, is worth more to Luis than any general list.
Tomorrow is the framing inspection on the Mar Vista addition. Build the prep list from the approved plans and structural sheets in this Project: what has to be complete, what has to stay visible and uncovered, what has to be on site (the card, the approved set, the truss calculations, any special inspection reports), and which trades have to be finished before the inspector walks. Then list what most often fails a framing inspection here, and mark which of those you are confident about and which I should confirm with my inspector.
The portal, read for you
Claude in Chrome (beta) works inside the tab you are already signed into. On the LADBS portal that means it can read the permit record, the inspection history and the open corrections, and hand Luis one list instead of five screens per job. It asks before anything that submits or changes a record, so calling the inspection stays your click.
[open the permit record for this job in a tab, then ask] Read this permit record. List every inspection on it: type, date, result, and the inspector's note where there is one. Then tell me which inspections this scope still needs and has not called, and which corrections are still open. Do not submit or schedule anything.
Go through the three permit records I have open and build one table: job, permit number, last inspection and result, next inspection needed, and anything expired or expiring in the next 60 days. Mark any job with no inspection activity in the last 30 days, and tell me which one I should worry about first.
The correction notice
[upload the photo of the correction notice] Transcribe every correction exactly as written. Then for each: what it means in plain English, which trade owns it, and what has to be done before the reinspection. Group by trade and draft a short message to each trade with their items and a request for the date they can be done by. Address each message to the trade, not to a person, and keep each under forty words.