Do you feel safer because your house has had a retrofit? Unfortunately, you may have a false sense of security: a highly respected east bay retrofitter says that fully 30% of his business is repairing retrofits that were incomplete or incorrectly done.
But yours is different because the work was inspected? This doesn’t mean much: no retrofit building code has been adopted by any city in the Bay Area.
Bottom line: get your retrofit inspected by a qualified contractor, engineer, or private inspection service (feel free to call me for recommendations: 707-965-3299).
