re: Engineer's Seal/Stamp for Floor Joists

Good luck with the builder keeping that specific documentation on file. Tho he might be able to help provide something from the city inspections from the original build to help you plead your case to them.

The Truss manufacture provides the stamp/letter for that particular package to the builder and that would have been turned in to the city at the time of original permitting. If trusses were installed from day 1, then the city should have record of that or you would not have been approved on your framing inspection the first time. If the city is telling you you need it now then they screwed up back then and lost the documentation from the truss manufacture.

If the builder knows who he used for his lumber packages back then, you could go to them and see if they have your house on file. From there you can contact the truss manufacture and see if they could provide you with this documentation.


Or, you could spend a couple thousand and have an engineer come out and write up a report.