Requirements For Pulling Permits?

skyhook

So does a sandwich and a bottle of wine.

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whoopi

i recently did a refit of my upstairs, and made the mistake of trying to , ahem,"play by the rules?"

inspector came out and obviously his wife had been giving him a hard time about something, and i was gonna be his whipping post. he first went to the refitted duct work and began to whine about there not being a fire-damper in the return.

i asked him to come look at the downstairs bathroom,pointed to a plastic vent fan, and asked him if that was legal. you shoulda seen his face!!....i THEN walked him to the base of the stairs leading to the second floor and asked him why that huge hole to the upstairs didn't require a self-closing fire door at the top?

the building code is FULL of holes that make no sense at ALL!!....if you're not doing structural,research the project well, use common sense, and leave those A HOLES out of it!!

in my state, as long as you live in the house for 1 year after construction, you're good to go!!

Deadhead Derek

No, That is wrong on quite a few levels....I you are doing work on a structure, for yourself or for your profession, read the god=damn codes, and until you do read the entire code book, shut the hell up about the one sentence the last inspector who red tagged you, read to you.

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bwalley

Why don't you call the building department and ask them?

The reason they want inspections is to make sure the work is being done to local code.

It doesn't matter if you own the house or not, the work still needs to be done correctly.

Bodger

Good to go on what? I don't get that one. If you stay in a house for a year you can do any sort of work on it and not get it inspected and that is considered legal?
Why? Your municipality figures if it hasn't fallen down in a year, whatever work you did must be okay and won't endanger any fututre inhabitants if it was done improperly?

What if you live there for a year, do a hatchet job remodel to add "value", and sell it to some unsuspecting buyer who watches it burn down a while later from the shoddy work?

If all it took was "common sense" nobody would need a license to do anything.

I guess you're right. "Common sense" would be the only pre-requisite I would worry about when hiring an electrician or plumber.

Celtic

What State is that....the State of Ignorance?

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bwalley

The 1 year rule is to keep home flippers from doing unlicensed work that a qualified competent licensed contractor should be doing.

They allow homeowners to do their own work on their homesteaded property, they still have to pull permits, get inspections and do the job per building code.

If you think the building code does not make sense, you obviously don't know much about it, yes there are some glitches in the code, but most of the codes are there for a reason, and a reasonable person would be able to understand why the code is written.

Building codes are MINIMUM Standards, you can always exceed the building code.

D.A.S.Anthony

Thanks for popping in and giving the worst advice I have ever read.

You were the inspectors whipping post because you are a hack and he knew it.

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Willie T

Zig Ziggler once said: "You can get anything you want if you help enough other people get what they want."

Well that applies to the building department, their plans examiners, inspectors, and even the cashier. These are just people doing a job. A rather thankless job, at that. Despite the rather ignorant attitude prevalent among most of us in the building trades, they are not our enemies. But they ARE human.

If you disrespect them, and give them attitude, and worst of all, lie, cheat or sneak around trying to "get one over", what do you honestly expect their opinion of you is going to be?

Well, a huge percentage of us do just about all those things............... so do not be surprised if an inspector arrives at your job site with a bit of a prejudiced chip on his shoulder. Your fellow contractors probably gave it to him.

Try to look at that man or woman and ask yourself, "What can I do to help this person leave here feeling better about me, my job, his job, other contractors, and himself/herself." You may not win yourself a prize for that attitude, but you sure can't hurt your case any. If they leave exactly the same person they were when they stepped out of their truck, you've lost nothing. If they drive away smiling, you are a leg up from thirty minutes earlier.

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Mellison

[quote=D.A.S.Anthony;599342]Thanks for popping in and giving the worst advice I have ever read.

FUNNY!

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wellbuilthome

Well guys i hate to say it, but in my area we can do that job with out a permit or inspection .
There is no GC licence and if we don't rewire the place or move the sink location we can just have at it .
We do our own plumbing most of the time . I always talk to the building inspectors before we start the job and lay it out for them .
I don't like surprise inspections .
I'm doing a job now , we removed the kitchen , bath room , wood and tile flooring 8 windows and doors 4 SQ of siding and added some lighting . The only thing they wanted a permit for was to change a existing fire place to a new wood stove ?
Its a different story if you want to add on to a home . We have 6 inspections on a 16x20 crawl space foundation ? John

Burge Remodel

Is this your "primary residence"? In Colorado home owners can only pull permits if the home is where you live. If you dont live in the home then you will have to get a licensed contractor to pull the required permits and to perform the work. I run into this from time to time with people who are buying "flip" houses. If you live in the home then you can pull permits for almost any remodeling work you are going to do.

Deicide1

Pull all proper permits and do it right. It should protect the next homeowner that buys your cobbled up place.

whoopi

a hack?....lol

you guys depend on those assholes to keep honest folks from doing their own work.

i live in NC, and yeah, the building code sucks ass!!...ALL of the refit was overdesigned as per the monkey code.....R-21 wall insulation with polyiso thermal break, R-49 in the attic, yadda yadda...

go to the Green Fiber website and watch a mock-up burned with "code" fiberglass insulation......all of the firestops are there penis breath!....go look, i dare ya!

whoopi

next owner?....oh right, i haven't mastered 15 amps equals 14 gauge wire.....but where does the green wire go?......lol

whoopi

huh? 1, learn how to type......2, i DID read the assinine bull****, and the damper was installed.....$7.50 on EBAY, but you're missing the point?

these guys walk around with the latest chip on their shoulders because they have some sort of authority.....give one a hammer and watch him build any ****ing thing!!!....

most of them are security gaurd rejects, which puts them a few clicks down from the local police force rejects.....lol

AutumnWood Inc.

Whoopi............I guess your knowledge overtakes your good common judgement ......... pulling permits protects you as a contractor...!
Here in Michigan they have a very large penalty for not pulling permits
on top of if anything ever went wrong with your non-permited work you would be held liable

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joasis

Ok...this has ran it's course. Closed.

And whoopi, I don't think this forum fits you well...if irrigation is your trade, and not construction.

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