We are getting ready to renovate a bathroom but the person we are working with does not have a licensed plumber on his team (he does have an unlicensed one). We have worked with this person on other parts of our renovation and have been very happy with his work but have not had him do any plumbing before. Our main question is “is it important to have a licensed plumber do the work? Could it come back to haunt us if we eventually decide to sell? If we use a licensed plumber will we have to apply for permits?” For what it is worth, we are installing new sinks and a new toilet, re-using the bathtub, re-tiling pretty much in the same area but might be shifting things around a bit-toilet might shift a couple of feet, tub is rotating, etc…any feedback would be really apppreciated (actually now that I think about it, I have the same question about the electrical work…) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We are getting ready to renovate a bathroom but the person we are working with does not have a licensed plumber on his team (he does have an unlicensed one). We have worked with this person on other parts of our renovation and have been very happy with his work but have not had him…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10421,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-27767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-renovation"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/01\/is-a-licensed-p\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"is a licensed plumber necessary?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/01\/is-a-licensed-p\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/01\/is-a-licensed-p\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Renovation","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"semigli"}],"creator":["semigli"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2009-01-14T20:25:17Z","datePublished":"2009-01-14T20:25:17Z","dateModified":"2009-01-14T20:25:17Z"},"rendered":"