All Forum Posts by: Addy Anders

@Brie Schmidt Do you recommend anyone who I can hire for the fence? 

@Jonathan Klemm how do I pm on this website? 

@Brie Schmidt

First violation is REMOVED THAT PORTION OF COMBUSTIBLE WOOD(more than 20% solid) WOODEN FENCE THAT EXCEEDS 4.5FT IN HEIGHT AND IS IN THE REQUIRED ZONING FRONT YARD SETBACK ZONING ORDINANCE SECTION NUMBER 17.17.0309, 170.2.035, 17.2.0305

Second violation is more explanatory (obviously the contractor never pulled the permit for the fence) 

PERMIT FEE AND PENALTY TO BE ASSESSED FOR WORK COMPLETED WITHOUT A BUILDING PERMIT 13-12-080,  13-32-035

I own a single family home in the city of Chicago. I received a violation in April and have a court hearing in June. This is my first property ever. The contractor who built my fence scammed me. I cannot get a hold of him and he isn’t easy to work with anyways. I do not know what to do or who to contact. Every time I contact the city of Chicago building department, they never answer. Does anyone have any recommendations?

I bought this rehabbed home about a year ago. I live in a single frame home that has an overhead sewer (sump pump, ejector pump). The toilet on the first floor would overflow with sewage and it would come out fast. Nothing on the second floor was ever affected. I had a plumber who said not to flush baby wipes(lesson learned). But a month later it happened again with nothing clogging it. Same thing, the sewage water would shoot out of the first floor. Had a different plumber come out(since the first one clearly did not resolve the actual problem). He thought I had a clog but I never did when he checked it. He ran some kind of snake through the toilet that was leaking water after he shut off the water from the toilet. He said problem was fixed. He did mention if it happened again that he would have to put a camera to make sure there were not any breaks in the pipes outside of my home under the concrete. Sure enough it happened again. 

Note:

It happened at random times, once I was using the shower on the 2nd floor, came back down and it was the sewage from the toilet on the second floor only. 

The other two times it was random. 

It was so much water it dripped down through my floors and through vents and it was about 2 inches of water in the basement. 

I had a guy come out again and he ran a camera and said there was a "break" 5 feet from the home and he would have to rip the concrete to get to it.

Does anyone have any idea what may be going on?