county inspectors used for harassment

[VancouverIslander]

The biggest issue with "as built" permits are with regard to plumbing and electrical, which have to be installed by a licensed contractor. You can't even pull the permits for them yourself. I've gone through the process of getting our cottage permitted and up to current code. We had to re-do the plumbing and electrical. I hear some times you can find a friendly contractor that will go with what's there (if it's up to code) but I've yet to meet one. Our upgrades were quite costly as it involved an SSPP, connection to the grid from the road to the house, rewiring, replumbing, adding a cess pit, adding a proper catchment, as well as a lot of carpentry and finishing work (like re-doing teh gyproc after gutting it to get at the plumbing and electrical.) Still, in the end we increased the resale value of the cottage by at least as much as we put into it. Unfortunately, non permitted buildings are at the whim of complainants.

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