A certificate of occupancy is sometimes required by the lender, if the owner had indeed borrowed money to have the house built, I would think first the owner or contractor would have got a permit to build. If the permit to build was issued, then permits for the three trades, electrical, plumbing and HVAC would have also had to been issued. All the phases of building would have had to been inspected at proper times and then once the house is complete a certificate of occupancy is issued by the building inspector or code enforcement officer, to the home owner and the lender. I don't know how it could have got that far, first if PC is not an acceptiable building medium and second if it has not passed all of the inspections. I don't believe mold could have been the only reason the owner could not have got a certificate of occupancy.
Bob
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, Greg House <ghunicycle@...> wrote:
>
> I could be remembering it wrong, it was all from the discussion here on the
> list. I thought he said he couldn't get a certificate of occupancy because of
> moldy walls. I suppose that's not -exactly- the same thing as having it
> condemned, but it's effectively the same. A house that you don't have permission
> to live in is useless.
>
> As you say, the owner ran out of money due to issues with his contractor(s?) and
> also blamed the material suppliers. So yeah, perhaps there
> were extenuating circumstances, but I thought I'm mention it since we were
> talking about the potential for mold.
>
> Greg
>
>
> >From: Spaceman Spaceman@...
> >To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
> >Sent: Fri, September 24, 2010 12:00:51 PM
> >Subject: Re: [papercreters] Re: fermented paper / was Several hundred pounds of
>
> >books
> >
> >
> >If you mean the house that is in Silver City, there were many problems and
> >the owner ran out of money because he hired a contractor that wasn't exactly
> >
> >experienced with pc, or extremely ethical from what I heard. The
> >condemnation for mold is news to me. Not saying it isn't true, just that I
> >had not heard that. The owner of that project is understandably bitter. He
> >was on this list for a while, if he still is perhaps he'll comment.
> >
> >Definitely not a typical pc project.
> >
> >spaceman All opinions expressed or implied are subject to change without notice
> >
> >upon receipt of new information. http://Starship-Enterprises.Net
> >On 9/24/2010 10:27 AM, Greg House wrote:
> >There was someone who posted on here about spending a considerable amount of
> >money building a PC house (somewhere in NM, as I recall) using blocks
> >purchased
> >from a "notable papercrete expert" and the place ended up being condemned
> >because the walls all had mold. This seems to defy the experience of most
> >people on this list, so perhaps there were other extenuating factors that
> >caused the mold problem there. Greg
>
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