Edmonton basement permits consist of development and building permits. We provide basement permit services for your basement development. Our service will include CAD drawings to meet City of Edmonton building code for basement, management and coordination of permits, application submission and we will monitor the entire permit process for you and coordinate with the City until your basement permit is issued and approved.
Our Edmonton permit services for basement include:
- New basement development with or without kitchen/wetbar (non-secondary suite)
- Legal suite basement development with a kitchen (
secondary suite)
- Existing basement without permits (non-secondary and secondary suite)
Tips When Developing a Basement:
When developing a basement, a few things you should always keep in mind inorder to ensure you meet the Edmonton basement permit requirements from the City of Edmonton. For any type of Edmonton basement development including secondary suite, it must meet the require building code and regulations.
Here are a few steps you should follow before you develop your basement:
- First, determine if you are building a non-secondary suite basement or a secondary suite basement. Both types of basement development will have different sets of requirement.
- If you are developing a secondary suite in Edmonton, ensure your area or district allow development of secondary suites. Some district or zones does not allow secondary suites development.
- If you are just repainting the walls or replacing the floor finishes etc in the basement, you do not need a basement permit in Edmonton.
- Iif you are putting in a new bathroom or bedrooms, you will need a basement permit from the City.
- Any alteration to the exterior wall or to the existing structural items such as loadbearing walls, posts and beams in the basement will require a permit and a Structural Engineer will be required.
- Instaling a new hot water tank or a furnance in the basement will require a permit.
- City inspections will be required during the construction as well as a final City building inspection will be required.
- Any proposed fireplace in the basement will require a Edmonton permit.
The above are some of the items you will need to consider when developing a basement.
Working with the City of Edmonton for basement permits is not an easy task, let PERMIECH to complete this task for you. We understand basement Bylaw and code and we have many years of experiences with the City of Edmonton and we know the people at the City and understand the permit process.
Please contact us for more information on your Edmonton basement permits.
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