Anonymous wrote:How long does the permitting process take?

Contractor usually gets them. Fill out paperwork and pay your extortion money, few minutes for them as they are used to doing it.

Might add a little to the contractor's rates, as they have to schedule around the inspectors time, but usually not anymore than the cost of the permit itself, often a few hundred bucks at most.

+1. Plus it's harder to sell a house with unpermitted work.

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Anonymous wrote:Electrical prob needs permit and inspection. Good thing.

How is that a good thing? Paying someone to nod their head and say yep, that's it.

The permit itself is not expensive. So, if it's going to become mysteriously much more expensive for the OP to do it with a permit, it means her builder was trying to cut corners which is a bad idea with electrical work. Obviously. And especially when you're putting a hot tub there.

We had permitting for our outdoor renovation with hot tub. It’s not a big deal at all and didn’t hold us up. Our electrician helped us with it. You should cross your T’s and dot your i’s if anything should happen down the road.

Anonymous wrote:Electrical prob needs permit and inspection. Good thing.

How is that a good thing? Paying someone to nod their head and say yep, that's it.

How long does the permitting process take?

It can only make it “a lot more expensive” if what you were planning wouldn’t have been to code.

Anonymous wrote:Electrical prob needs permit and inspection. Good thing.

My best guess is that yes a permit is required;it will protect you.

Several deaths by electrocution have occurred over the past decade by docks with underwater lights.

Be careful.

Electrical prob needs permit and inspection. Good thing.

In Montgomery county, if we are putting in a 300 square foot patio made out of thermal treated wood, do we have to pull a permit? There would be electrical considerations since we are going to sink a hot tub and cold plunge into the patio.

We were hoping for a simple and inexpensive project and are worried the permitting process will hold us up and make the project a lot more expensive. Any thoughts or experience?