Permitting and Inspection By Checklist, Monitoring Third-Party By Trained Technical Writers

  For this post, I examine AI response to this question:

My concrete back porch is on-foundation. What Building Code requirements must I meet in moving my exterior walls to enclose the back porch in an enlarged kitchen? Already, the overhead of the porch is fully supported by the far edge of the concrete porch. The porch foundation-edge concrete pour is obviously to the depth of the foundation elsewhere.

My kitchen enlargement is already well-documented in this blog post:

Monday, October 2, 2017  2x4 Framing Build-Out To 2x6

At the beginning of the project, I brought simple plans to Building Development Services, the City of Portland agency responsible for permitting and inspections. They examined the plans for an hour and could focus with intelligence only upon the proximity of my work to the not-far-distant South property line. They asked $1600 for a go-ahead, with no construction advice. I asked whether I had to pay and learned that I did not have to pay. I then went ahead with my rare and inventive practice of self-documentation, without permits. I came back to the senior plans examiner later for blessing of the box beam strengthening of the kitchen ceiling from 2x6 to 2x12.

With AI as a new resource, I want to judge whether I have missed anything of building officials Jurisdiction Review Responsibility in the remodel durability and safety. I want to see whether a Checklist Process might already exist independent of local officials. A checklist process is advocated by me as a better alternative to present unaffordable and broken permitting and inspection, in blog posts collected by Label: Diligence Reporting. I offer myself as a prototype technical writer third-party protector of my home, with healthy and needed interest for myself and for all future owners.

I talk this over with Google AI, captured by this URL. I spare the Reader the quite-large bulk of that conversation, not trying to copy it here, with imperfection. I hope the URL remains indelible; if not, find it captured as an imperfect Google Doc, here.