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I'm curious how you could term this a repair, given the definition of repair
in the existing building code:


REPAIR. The patching, restoration and/or minor replacement of materials,
elements, components, equipment and/or fixtures for the purposes of
maintaining such materials, elements, components, equipment and/or fixtures
in good or sound condition.


It's clearly not patching. It's not restoration, it's replacement. It's most
certainly not minor. It's not for the purposes or maintaining things in good
or sound condition.

For the sake of discussion, if you were to categorize this as a repair,
what's an alteration?


Mark Cramer
Mark Cramer Inspection Services, Inc.
492 20th Ave. 
Indian Rocks Beach, FL 33785
727-595-4211
http://www.BestTampaInspector.com




-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Stanley [mailto:tstanley at i-1.net] 
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 10:09 AM
To: Bill LeMaster; Christopher Banbury; Mark Cramer;
codetalk at myfloridacode.com
Subject: Re: [Florida Code Talk] work area for fire damaged SFR

I agree with Bill.  It could be a repair if it is put back the way it was. 
If it is being re-configured, then not a repair.  It appears to be a repair 
with substantial structural damage to me.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill LeMaster" <blemaster at co.okaloosa.fl.us>
To: "Christopher Banbury" <cbanbury at arkengineering.net>; "Mark Cramer" 
<mcramer1 at tampabay.rr.com>; <codetalk at myfloridacode.com>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Florida Code Talk] work area for fire damaged SFR


I think this is a repair not an alteration.

William T. LeMaster CBO/CEAP/MCP
Okaloosa County

-----Original Message-----
From: codetalk-bounces at myfloridacode.com
[mailto:codetalk-bounces at myfloridacode.com] On Behalf Of Christopher
Banbury
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 8:45 AM
To: Mark Cramer; codetalk at myfloridacode.com
Subject: Re: [Florida Code Talk] work area for fire damaged SFR

I vote level 3. It sounds like 100% of the building area requires a roof
which would set the work area at 100%. Also one might argue that egress,
accessibility, & life safety would need to be addressed for 100% of the
building since new interior partitions are being constructed.


Christopher Banbury, PE
President

Ark Engineering, Inc.
PO Box 10129, Brooksville, FL 34603
22 North Broad ST, Brooksville, FL 34601
Phone: (352) 754-2424
Fax: (352) 754-2412
www.arkengineering.net



> -----Original Message-----
> From: codetalk-bounces at myfloridacode.com [mailto:codetalk-
> bounces at myfloridacode.com] On Behalf Of Mark Cramer
> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 4:16 PM
> To: 'CodeTalk'
> Subject: Re: [Florida Code Talk] FW: Florida Building
Commission(October
> Meeting Summary)
>
> An existing 1 story SFR is extensively damaged in a fire, leaving only
the
> exterior block walls and one partition wall standing. Roof structure
is
> totally gone.
>
> Is this a level 2 or level 3 alteration as defined in the Existing
> building
> code? Level 3 is defined there as follows:
>
> ALTERATION-LEVEL 3
> 305.1  Scope.
> Level 3 alterations apply where the work area exceeds 50 percent of
the
> aggregate area of the building and made within any 12-month period.
> Exception: Work areas in which the alteration work is exclusively
> plumbing,
> mechanical or electrical shall not be included in the computation of
total
> area of all work areas.
>
>
> Mark Cramer
> Mark Cramer Inspection Services, Inc.
> 492 20th Ave.
> Indian Rocks Beach, FL 33785
> 727-595-4211
> http://www.BestTampaInspector.com
>
>
>
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