Building Permit

Armed with the new houseplans, we went to the city to get our building permit. Ah, but not so fast. The city people were courteous and helpful, but they said they needed more details on the supporting beam that is to take the place of the load-bearing wall being moved. So it was off to find a structural engineer to give exact sizes and placement of load-bearing posts and beams. After a few iterations we had our official blessing from the engineer that we could take back to the city and finally get the coveted building permit.