My wife and I have a house in Williamsburg we’ve been struggling to renovate. We got approved for an Alt. 1 renovation but every bid we’ve gotten back from contractors has been way beyond our means to implement. All the contractors have made hugely expensive bids and haven’t shown much interest in working with us. So much for the recession.<\/p>\n
As a result, we’re changing course. We are going to need to do electrical upgrades, plumbing upgrades, and install a boiler. We also need to do some shoring up of the structure, but that mostly involves putting some supports in the basement. <\/p>\n
Our process of getting our DoB permit approval was a nightmare that took five months of hell. If we are contracting with individual contractors for the above mentioned items, independent of our original plan, is there any guide to how the permitting plans work? We see this house as a multi-year upgrade process, working room to room, as we are living in the house. <\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My wife and I have a house in Williamsburg we’ve been struggling to renovate. We got approved for an Alt. 1 renovation but every bid we’ve gotten back from contractors has been way beyond our means to implement. All the contractors have made hugely expensive bids and haven’t shown much interest in working with us….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61773,"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":[4],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-49369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restoration"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/10\/guidelines-on-p\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Guidelines On Permitting","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/10\/guidelines-on-p\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/10\/guidelines-on-p\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Restoration","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"burpgun"}],"creator":["burpgun"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2010-10-04T13:57:18Z","datePublished":"2010-10-04T13:57:18Z","dateModified":"2010-10-04T14:01:26Z"},"rendered":"