Permit Filing Frustration

[JohnE]

John

I do agree that the electrical permit can be handled with a phone call or two.


I have never been asked to produce proof of an electrical permit to pull a F/A permit. I thought for the GC to obtain the building permit, the plans had to be reveiwed by the Fire Dept so why do some towns require the EC to resubmitt plans for reveiw?

Joe

I didn't mean that you needed to provide proof of elec permit to get the FA permit, just that you had to have one in addition. That there are 3 permits required to install a FA in an existing building for example. (Although some building dept.'s will not bother issuing a permit if the FD does.)

 

[cowboyjwc]

Part of the reson for the price variance in permits, is that the B&S departments charge what it takes to do the paper work and the inspections and etc. So basically, if the city is paying their counter techs $15 p/hr and thier inspectors $20 per hour and then you go to the county and they pay $20 and $30 p/hr, then there is going to, of course. be a differnce.

Then how they charge is also differnt. We have a minimum fee which covers things such as panels and water heaters and such. We can charge by the outlet or the sq footage depending on the size of the job or go by the valuation.

Here the FD is contracted through the county so we really have nothing to do with them, and yes it can be a pain. When doing something like a resturant, you may have to have four, five or more different plan checks (fire, police, county health, enviornmental health, building & safety, possibly public works).

If you think south Florida is bad we may have 46 different jurisdictions in the greater Los Angeles area and surrounding towns

 

[joebell]

I didn't mean that you needed to provide proof of elec permit to get the FA permit, just that you had to have one in addition.

John

that's what I thought you meant but I wasn't sure if you have been asked for the electrical permit in the past to pull the F/A permit. It wouldn't have surprised me

Joe

 

[joebell]

we may have 46 different jurisdictions in the greater Los Angeles area and surrounding towns

I guess it could be alot worse in my area

Joe

 

[hillbilly1]

Cost for a permit to install a 250KW generator $1400.00. The cheapest permit I pulled lately was $25.00 to install a fire alarm device.

Joe

About a year ago in Ohio I had to pull a Fire sprinkler permit for the entire building ($2700) even though we are electrical contractors and the only thing we had to do with the sprinkler system was install a transfer switch for the fire pump!