I know someone who bought a foreclosed home on the open market (MLS). After they bought it the city inspected it and found the unpermitted finished basement. The city made them pull down every inch of drywall for the electrical to be inspected. The owner tried to reason with them about just taking down certain parts but the city refused. After removing all the drywall the city came back and approved the electrical and said the drywall could be reinstalled. That was 10 years ago and not a single piece of drywall has been put up out of anger over the whole situation.

http://plaidonline.com/Plaid/media/PlaidLibrary/articleImages/how-to-paint-hydrangeas-hero.jpg Example, but done on wood furniture instead

Come to a Southern art show, you’ll do great

It depends upon where you live I guess but where we are in MA permitting is online and every permit pulled on a house is in there. When houses are put on the market the assessor looks at their records and if there’s supposed to be an unfinished basement but it’s being sold as finished a call is made to the building inspector and he calls the realtor and then the poop hits the fan.

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I would let the contractor(s) you hire know what you have done. They might spot something that needs to be corrected. Another reason would be to protect their safety. I would hate to see someone connect to electricity that I did wrong and get shocked.

Can you show a picture? I don't think I know what you're talking about

We’re talking about a ring doorbell, chill

You need to have a licensed electrician inspect the work, then pull a permit and redo anything that is not up to code. They are generally allowed to self-inspect, so the city won’t send their inspector for a small amount of work by a licensed person. The issue is your insurance. If you suffer a fire your insurance company absolutely will send an inspector, and if they see your work and you don’t have a permit and inspection, your insurance will not pay, even if your work had nothing to do with the fire.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

The only thing that might give me pause would be in inspected electrical work IF (and only if) you weren't confident of your work. If you were CONFIDENT with your electrical work, then I'd say you'll be fine.

I probably wouldn't give anything away outside of my family but I was curious how it is viewed outside of a bubble. I guess I should be asking, is furniture with this general style of painting on it viewed at about the same level as other pieces with decent-looking handpainted artwork on them?

Home owners can do there own work from what I understand..did you just grab electric from a nearby box?.. I wouldn't worry about it. I did all the electric and plumbing in my own house and I;m a carpenter. Of course I do know what I am doing too. As long as you know the basics of adding receptacles you should be fine.

I can't help you, but wanted to comment that i can't even relate to what you're saying. It's so foreign to me, i cannot imagine having these concerns.

I live in a rural part of a rural state. I built an entire home addition, doubled the size of my house, didn't tell anybody. Not only didn't tell anyone, didn't even contemplate it and wouldn't know who to talk to about it.

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crazy world we live in. Anyway, i wouldn't say anything about it unless/until it comes up during a sale.

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What's done is done. Don't make it a disaster by reporting it. The basement was always like that.

I think it's sort of considered kind of "country"/shabby-chic these days? If it's your asthetic though, paint what you want on your furniture... if you're asking if there's a market for it? I mean, probably, people buy everything, but it might have to be the right customer/might take a while to sell.

Odds are they will ask you to pull permits retroactively, possibly a tiny fine, and then come inspect.

Is that worth it? Depends on how confident you did things to code. I'd maybe investigate that BEFORE calling them in.

Do not come clean. Inspectors should only be looking at what they’re there for or some life threatening problem. They should not be snooping.

I once bought a house at auction and later learned it had an unpermitted full bathroom in the basement. When I went to sell it the city did their required inspection and thankfully ignored it. That was the best possible outcome.

I don't know why you would jump straight to the building department in this case.

I would contact different licensed electricians in your area, explain the situation, and see if any would be willing to inspect it for you and determine what would need to be updated. You'll end up paying them for it but they aren't going to turn you in if they get out there and it's a complete wreck. You're also probably going to have to call around, since many companies are not going to want to put time and effort into checking stuff they didn't do.

Would just share a personal experience that we hired a licensed general contractor to do work but they did not get any of the required permits for the work they did. After a few calls we were able to find an electrician that was willing to come out, inspect the work they had done, replace the work that needed to be replaced, and procure a permit on our behalf. So it happens.

They might make you rip it all out. I would leave it alone honestly.

Thanks everyone for your advice. I bought the removal tool but it wouldn’t go deeper than about 1/4” - so applying turning pressure would just make it slip out. I ended up cutting a few notches into it with an angle grinder and then using a hammer and chisel to turn it, finally got it:

https://i.imgur.com/joV4dBp.jpg

That depends on where a camera is pointed, in my local legal context you have no right to film the public space or the propertie of others if avoidable. Your right to film ends wher others right to privacy begins.

I literally just used one of these a week or two ago for a very similar situation. Not replacing the tub, but had a nasty, leaky seal (in a 2nd floor, no less). Worked like a charm. Old guy a lowes told me to 'hit it real soft with a rubber mallet and use a long breaker bar with a torque adapter so you don't break the pipe'. Might not be necessary to 'not break the pipe' in your case, but in case someone else comes across this post in the future - if your crossbeams are broken, buy a crossthreaded remover like above. Works great!

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Well the manufacturer did not specify what it could and couldn’t be used on.

Sorry for asking about others experience with it.

I guess next time don’t even both clicking on the post