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Show Inspector tours Iron Horse project i At the request of the Iron Horse homeowners association associa-tion last week, chief building official Ron Ivie made a tour of the low-cost housing project. After the tour, Ivie said he felt the project overall was "certainly one of the best low-income projects in the entire state," but acknowledged acknow-ledged there were some final completion problems which needed to be resolved by the general contractor, Rich-lund Rich-lund Construction. "The reason a contractor is asked to guarantee his work for a year is because buildings do settle, materials have some shrinkage and occasionally problems occur," oc-cur," he said. Ivie said most of the problems at the project can be credited to first-year settling. Sheet rock has cracked in some places and nails have popped up, which are "to be expected." Other problems which are still yet to be resolved include loose roofing tiles, stairways which need support rails, and some drainage problems prob-lems in the landscaping. "Mostly, the problem seems to be a communication communica-tion one. All the city waived on this project were fees, not a standards. 1 think the contractor con-tractor now understands our position on that." Terry Whitney, secretary of the homeowners association, was pleased that Ivie had walked the project and is working now with the contractor con-tractor to see that" the homeowners complaints are dealt with. :i ' "We now have a time line ; for these things to be finally finished. And we have the city's assurance, that if in the next two weeks these things are not completed by the contractor, they will take whatever action is appropriate." |