How to Apply and File an Electrical Permit for Do It Yourself DIY Home Improvements

How to apply and file an electrical permit for Do It Yourself DIY Home Improvement.

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Please use these time stamps to jump ahead:
0:06 Electrical Permit
1:57 Adding up the components and costs
4:50 Describing Work
7:10 Creating a room layout and electrical circuit sketch
8:35 6/12 Rule for Electrical Outlets
9:46 Specify where Smoke Detectors are Installed
10:16 Describe Individual Circuits
11:24 Main Panel Description and Is It Possible to Overload a Panel
13:10 Listing typical breakers and adding up the total Amperes (I have a 150 Amp panel main load center and the total breakers exceeds 250 Amperes - Is that ok?)
15:37 Calculating total power usage for a party (if every incandescent light was on in the house and the electric heater was on and the oven was on and you had to run the vacuum and your air compressor in your work-shop came on and your computers and TVs are on).
18:45 How LED light bulbs really save you in power consumption
19:36 Short discussion on a sub panel and how overloading could occur.
20:23 Inspection Process: Rough Inspections then Final Inspections
23:39 Final Inspections tally up the improvements made to your home and this is what is sent off to the city or county for overall tax assessment (for tax increase if applicable in your city or state).
25:20 Permits and Insurance Companies - What if work you did without a permit causes a fire, will the insurance company pay?
31:59 Closing Message - Thank you and Subscribe.

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I demonstrate how to fill out the application. You will need to know what improvements you are making in order to fill out the components that are required to complete the work. You use this information and estimates from your local electrical supplier to give you a total cost. You will need to include a description of the work so the construction official can decide what the permit will be classified as. For instance, I submitted a permit to rip the walls out of a room and bring the room up to the current code with fire blocking and electrical code. This was classified as rehabilitation work. You also need to create a sketch that will identify the layout of the room or rooms, location of luminaries (lights), outlets (receptacles), switches, ceiling fans, HVAC Heater Air Conditioning units and smoke detectors if applicable. You then pay for the permit once they tell you how much it costs and begin work. You perform your framing first, then electrical and call for rough inspection. After rough inspection then you call for framing and insulation / fire blocking rough inspection. After the rough inspection you finish your work if you passed. If you failed, make adjustments and call back for a 2nd/3rd inspection, which may cost you extra. Then complete the work in its entirety and call for final electrical and final building inspection and receive your permit. File your permit placard in a good place. I usually stick it to my electrical panel as this is a safe place and is not likely to move. This will be needed when you try to sell your home.

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Places where you can get estimates for the building materials and electrical components include true value, home depot, lowes, Manards, and Do It Best. Try to shop local first to help out the small businesses.

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