Bobby Kolev
Registered User
I looked around before posting and I hope I this goes in the right category.
I am a small retail building owner in TX with experience just enough to make me try be my own GC after previous GC work ended up costing in the six digits.
The question is how to approach city (permits and fire marshal from what I know so far) with the goal of minimal involvement from their side - something that I understand is relatively high in the list of GCs doing remodeling.
What I did was split one retail space of approximately 3500 sqft into two spaces by building a wall at about 1/3rd of the length.
Assume wall was properly built, HVAC was properly re-configured on each side and electric was properly done as well on each side, with the note that the small suite got to keep the breaker box that used to be for the whole space and the larger space got a new breaker box installed and cables ran through conduits to local power company awaiting City approval for sake of connecting to the grid.
Work was already done by master electrician who is on board.
My question is what permits do I need to file for and in what order?
I understand I should have started with the permits and I understand City may ask me to take something apart so they can inspect it; they have the bread and the knife and of course I'll do what they say, but my contractors didn't care much about City and said they could work around the holidays when City was not and I admit I went with my contractors over City's preferences.
For the last time this is a question of how the inspection process works in this scenario rather than what could have I missed that they could find.
I want to formulate my requests so that they ask as little as possible.
Thank you in advance.
I am a small retail building owner in TX with experience just enough to make me try be my own GC after previous GC work ended up costing in the six digits.
The question is how to approach city (permits and fire marshal from what I know so far) with the goal of minimal involvement from their side - something that I understand is relatively high in the list of GCs doing remodeling.
What I did was split one retail space of approximately 3500 sqft into two spaces by building a wall at about 1/3rd of the length.
Assume wall was properly built, HVAC was properly re-configured on each side and electric was properly done as well on each side, with the note that the small suite got to keep the breaker box that used to be for the whole space and the larger space got a new breaker box installed and cables ran through conduits to local power company awaiting City approval for sake of connecting to the grid.
Work was already done by master electrician who is on board.
My question is what permits do I need to file for and in what order?
I understand I should have started with the permits and I understand City may ask me to take something apart so they can inspect it; they have the bread and the knife and of course I'll do what they say, but my contractors didn't care much about City and said they could work around the holidays when City was not and I admit I went with my contractors over City's preferences.
For the last time this is a question of how the inspection process works in this scenario rather than what could have I missed that they could find.
I want to formulate my requests so that they ask as little as possible.
Thank you in advance.