FEMA Question – Contradiction
OK Gents, I have done an increasing number of elev certs in the last few years. I used to just turn over the cert + an MT-EZ, and let the client handle it, recently for the straight forward ones, I have registered and done the eLOMA for an additional fee (clients love the time savings).
On the current house I am working on, it is straight forward, with one issue that I just have come across, and never thought of before. On the MT-EZ and the eLOMA, the determining factor is that the LAG is above the BFE – that is all they care about. On this project, the LAG is above the BFE, so the house will pass the MT-EZ and eLOMA just fine. However it is a building diagram #9, with a subgrade crawl space, and the dirt floor of the crawl, item C2.1 is BELOW the BFE. So by eLOMA (and MT-EZ) standard this will pass OK, but if it gets audited, then I will have to complete the full cert, and then it will show the crawl below the BFE = FAIL?
Is that elev something that gets looked at on the full cert? or is it just there for info purposes? I thought that anything below BFE is trouble, yet the eLOMA and MT-EZ appear to pass some structures, while a full cert will fail them? I am worried that I will do an eLOMA (or client does an MT-EZ) and it looks like it will pass, then it gets audited, submit a full cert, and then I find trouble! I may have a whole subdivision with this issue, so it is something I would like to investigate.
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