Permits (renovations/construction)

[huntr1]

These drains were part of the original plumbing inspection and do not need to be reinspected. All you are doing is setting the fixtures in place. Now if you need to run new plumbing or electricity then it would be subject to a reinspection as a new addition. You are simply finishing off what was already approved.

Exactly Ken. If her rough in does not already have the wiring in place for the electric (ALL the electric) she will have to have the electric work inspected, once it is run, to be within the law.

 

[DoWhat]

to be within the law.

And the insurance company.

 

[carolinagirl]

I already told you this in my post. I am a licensed master electrician. If you call the permits office, they will tell you "of course you need a permit" (The inspectors are paid a % of the permit cost). Just do the work.

So how much do you charge to add electrical outlets to an already wired, but unfinished, basement?

 

[huntr1]

And the insurance company.

If you finish the bathroom, without permits and inspections, and then sell the house and it burns down in the middle of the night due to bad outlet (noticed I said outlet, not bad wiring job) shorting out, and the new owners (and their insurance company) discover that you "Henrietta Homeowner'd" it, you'd get a nice fat LAWSUIT served upon you. Of course, this is coming from somebody that finished the entire basement without a single permit or gov't inspection. I ran the wires and then paid an electrician to come in and check my work and then plug the wires into the breakers and the breakers into the box.

 

[willie]

Just do it. If you use a compression fitting to attach the valve to the supply, there won't be any soldering involved so it should be simple.

 

[Cletus_Vandam]

I would not go the permitting route. There was an obvious intent on providing the bath room when the structure was originally built. As mentioned by several, al of the pumbing rough in was already inspected.

With regard to getting sued, if your house burns down because of anything you did directly or indirectly with or without a contractor being involved, with or without a permit, you may or may not be drug into a suit regardless.

Just do it.

Also, permitting will cost you money from the cost of the permit, to the cost of getting the drawing done and it will liekly increase the taxes on you house... Goverment in action.