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Permit for bathroom tiling?
April 29, 2009 8:58 AM   Subscribe

Permit needed to tile a bathtub in San Francisco?

A friend of mine is tiling my bathtub in San Francisco. No changes to plumbing. Does this require a permit?
posted by ClaudiaCenter to home & garden (6 answers total)
 
Highly doubtful. It's not much different than painting an interior room.

This is the SF building department's FAQ - I don't see anything in there about tiling, but I just skimmed it quickly. If you really want to get to the bottom of it, you can call one of the numbers on this page. I'd start with Initial Permit Review.
posted by LionIndex at 9:14 AM on April 29, 2009


Hi!

See #8 on page 8 and #13 on page 9 (.pdf) - I think at least one of these applies, although it's not entirely explicit. It may be worth being on hold with the folks at 311 or the Dept. of Building Inspection.
posted by rtha at 9:15 AM on April 29, 2009


Hi rtha! The pdf is not opening -- do you have the prior page?
posted by ClaudiaCenter at 9:30 AM on April 29, 2009


Weird.

Here are the relevant quotes, from the subsection titled:

B. WHEN IS A BUILDING PERMIT REQUIRED?
(Code Reference Section 106 of Building Code)

Department of Building Inspection - How to Obtain a Permit for 1 & 2 Family Dwellings
The following items DO NOT require a permit:

8. Painting, papering and similar finish work.

[snip]

13. Surface mounting of readily removable materials on interior walls.

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Also, here it is in HTML.

Is tile "readily removable"? Is it "similar finish work"? No idea. Unless an SF building inspector is a mefite and sees this (anything's possible), pray that the permit dept. has decent hold music!

check yer mefimail, too
posted by rtha at 9:41 AM on April 29, 2009


When we redid a bathroom in SF there was a complex, specific process for the permit for the shower pan. Presumably to verify that it was properly watertight.
posted by Nelson at 9:43 AM on April 29, 2009


No shower pan here ... (using existing) ... thanks everyone! (Also, links work fine now.)
posted by ClaudiaCenter at 11:08 AM on April 29, 2009


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