Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: kitchen inspectors

[Rob Sandelin (robsan]

In our classification we were lumped in kitchen classification  with 
churches and community centers rather than (god forbid) restaurants.  
Since we are using HOME appliances we are under home regulations.  We 
are building our setup with the plumbing capacity and electrical 
capacity for handling commercial grade appliances (mainly a floor drain 
for the dishwasher and some other plumbing stuff and wiring stuff, but 
in the application we listed and will use *(at first )home appliances.

We just got our building permit yesterday!!! and so we are in good 
shape as long as what is on the plan is what we do.  We may actually 
install a home dishwasher, get inspected, then rip it out and install 
the commercial dishwasher after inspection.  They didn't care about the 
refrigerator only the stove and dishwasher.  I think we will eventually 
follow Puget Ridges set up and get a large Jenair gas cooktop.  This is 
top of the line HOME appliances and should serve our needs well.

PS - I am pretty sure we have never told the County, nor do we intend 
to, that we actually use this kitchen to serve food for the community 
on a regular basis.  They see our commonhouse as a condo clubhouse for 
parties and such.  Much easier to let them believe that.  The last 
thing we want is weekly health dept. inspections or some other crap. 
Sorry you have to be in that mess, hope it turns out.

Rob Sandelin
Sharingwood