Architect Meeting
If your project will involve structural changes for a different floor plan, you will
likely be required to provide drawings to the building department as part of the
permit process. A meeting with an architect to get an estimate for this cost is
very important.
Other aspects of the work you plan may occur to the architect that you did
not think about. This will be money well spent if you plan to eliminate or
relocate walls.
Adding partitions is not a problem. When adding, and not removing, the
structural integrity of the structure remains. Often no drawings are needed for
this sort of work. But there may be electrical requirements which will need a
drawing. All this can be discussed with an architect before buying the property
rather than finding out after buying the property that there will be a huge cost
involved in continuing with a project after it is shut down by a building
official due to a lack of architect involvement and written plans. Check all
this out in advance.
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