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How to Get a Plumbing Permit #LivestreamWithYouTube
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Apr 11, 2025
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and I'm doing a uh YouTube live vertical
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and I just wanted to
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um share a little bit of information
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it's springtime a lot of people are
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getting ready to start some projects and
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you may be starting to think about doing
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some plumbing or maybe you've got a
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remedition you've got a big job coming
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up and you want to know how in the world
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to get a plumbing
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permit it's really not that hard uh
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typically what you have to do is you got
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to start with a plan uh you're going to
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need a simple floor plan you can draw it
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yourself uh there are a lot of tools out
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there that allow you to do it for free
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and you can
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um you just have to kind of show where
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the the fixtures are going to be in the
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room just as they will be when the job's
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all done and there's lots of uh examples
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of this if you just go out and look uh
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on even on Google uh and look at the
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image search you can just see how to do
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floor plans and you know just put in
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there bathroom floor plans uh it'll give
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you an idea what to do all right so once
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you do
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that you'll have to go get a an
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application form from your city or town
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uh they're easy to get most of the time
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they might be online simple form to fill
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out a lot of times they want you to you
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have to list what are the new fixtures
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you're putting in like a vanity and a
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tub and a shower and a toilet uh a bedet
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whatever it might be and and then
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they're going to charge you a fee based
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on the fixtures that you have it's
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pretty common in a lot of places that
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you will have to uh probably provide a
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riser diagram and a riser diagram and if
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you got any questions by the way go
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ahead and um uh Hey Jose how you doing
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um go ahead and answer ask any questions
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in the chat i'm happy to answer them
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i'll try to look down at the chat every
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now and then see what's going on uh
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you'll have to do a riser diagram so you
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might want to know what's a riser
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diagram so a riser
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diagram it's a drawing on a piece of
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paper that's kind of in three dimensions
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and what it does is it shows to the
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plumbing department that you know which
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size pipes have to go to each fixture
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for drainage and what size pipes that
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you use to vent each fixture and these
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are really really important because if
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you don't put the right pipes to the
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fixtures uh things aren't going to work
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right simple as that and it and they
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also want to see that the riser diagram
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also shows how the pipes interconnect uh
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with one another really really important
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and I draw them all the time i like
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drawing them uh to me it's like doing a
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cross word puzzle uh so if you need help
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if you want to see one if you want to
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understand a little bit more about riser
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diagrams just go to my draw plumbing
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plans.com website you'll see a bunch of
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examples there and really really kind of
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cool things i I like I said I like
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drawing them
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um usually with a plumbing permit once
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you get the permit uh there's there are
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usually two inspections uh if you're
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doing like a a room addition or a house
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or sometimes three uh if you're putting
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any pipes underneath a ground like
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that'll be covered by concrete you'll
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have to do what's called a below roof
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inspection the inspectors want to see
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all of those pipes that are under the
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ground before they get buried uh then
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once you frame the addition and you put
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all the pipes in uh they want to look at
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the pipes um before you cover them with
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drywall all right they want to make sure
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everything's put in correctly and all
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the right size pipes are there and then
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when the job's done uh you'll have a
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final inspection and typically you'll
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you'll uh they they'll want you to do a
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test uh you'll have to make sure that
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you can show them that there are no
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leaks in the system and uh pretty easy
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to do you have to cap off the vent pipe
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at the roof uh you have to put a a plug
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uh in in your cleanout so that you have
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a closed system and here's what happens
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they'll typically go over to a toilet
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and they'll either partially flush the
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toilet by just pulling up the the
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flapper valve a little bit to let some
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water run into the toilet not flush it
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you don't want to flush the toilet you
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just let a little water run into the
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toilet maybe I don't know um 8 ounces of
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water 12 ounces of water and what
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happens is if there's no leaks in the
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system it's really pretty cool i I
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probably should do a video about this
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one day if there's no leaks in the
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system what happens so you know that
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think of how a toilet is you know it's a
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it's just got a trap a P trap in it uh
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you know when you look at a toilet you
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only see half the P trap by the way but
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so if there's no leaks in the system so
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the water comes you know it's kind of
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dribbling down into the bowl and bec and
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because it it can't go anywhere the
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water level in the toilet starts to rise
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as if the toilet is clogged and that's
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exactly what you want uh because if
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there was a leak in the system that
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little bit of water that is um coming
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into the toilet would actually be enough
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pressure to push air through wherever
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the leak is so that's how we do a final
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test on plumbing really pretty cool um
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really interesting to see actually um if
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you have any questions feel free to ask
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them here on the uh live stream about
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how to get a plumbing permit um how to
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how to uh how to do any testing um
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whatever it might be in fact you know
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I'm the Ask the Builder guy so if you
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have any building question you can ask
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for that matter just type it in the chat
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happy to help
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um what else did I want to tell you
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about plumbing permits usually it only
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takes you they probably would issue one
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in less than a week's time doesn't take
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a long time to get them uh and they cost
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it varies by the city and the town uh
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they can cost as little as $20 or $30
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might go up to a couple hundred dollars
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just depends where you are so um really
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as simple as that um it's um really
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really pretty simple to um to get them
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and um if you have any questions feel
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free to free to contact me you can go to
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askthebuilder.com and I'm happy to uh
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there's an asktim page there happy to
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answer your questions about how to uh
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get a plumbing permit or answer any
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other plumbing question all right so
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just wanted to do a quick little live
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vertical see how it uh works and uh
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thanks so much for watching uh Jose see
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you later buddy i hope I hope this turns
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the video off i I I can't see a stop
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button i think this is it
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yes
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