Plumbing permit

Permits, no. insurance questions, yes.

chuck172 said:

Does your area require any type of permits to install an add-on wood fired boiler in your basement?

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Absolutely and I'd bet all of ours do if you really asked. Maybe not a plumbing permit but a mechanical permit for the new wood burning appliance. There are many rules, regulations, and specifications that must be met when installing a wood burner. A boiler also offers plenty of ways to blow up the home or kill someone if proper safety codes are not followed.

If the AHJ requires a permit somewhere in the code (whether your buddy bob knows it or not) and you don't get one, and then something bad happens with your install your insurance will find out and call it an illegal installation. Also, "your" illegal installation could make you liable in the future if somebody burns that house down and dies.

Totally not worth the risk. Cost is usually low and if you have nothing to hide then why not have somebody check your work. It's all about liability.

Pretty sure here if the job is over a thousand, you need a permit. You can fix a roof, replace a toilet, all those type jobs that don't go over a grand, but a new bathroom, new roof, etc. you'll need one. Wood burning is permit required here, for all the reasons above. Call your building inspectors office, as rules can vary by towns, states, etc.

I don't think it will matter a whole lot what anyone here says to the question - if you really want to know, ask at the local office.

I didn't do any permits for my boiler project, or new roof. Pretty sure they weren't required - but I didn't ask, either. And the roof was done by a roofer, and electric boiler was wired in by an electrician. I only made one call ahead of my boiler project - to my insurance agent. The only thing he asked for was that the boiler have a CSA sticker.

Problem with permits are the inspectors- always seem to find a bunch of items that do not meet their current ideas vs what was spec 20 years or so ago. I swear that 2/3 of their time is spent on job justification.