Restoration in San Diego
San Diego's Development Services Department takes every new permit application online, through its Accela portal at aca.accela.com/SANDIEGO, and minor mechanical, electrical and plumbing installations can use its Simple (No-plan) Permit there. The customer service line is 619-446-5000, Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. DSD puts scheduling inspections on the contractor or the owner. Settle who books them before work starts. PMT project types can be booked online at any hour; other inspections go through 858-581-7111, and grading and right of way inspections through 619-446-5242.
B&P 7057.5 bars a B-2 residential remodeling contractor from contracting for substantial electrical, mechanical or plumbing work unless it holds that class or subcontracts it, so on a flood job that opens walls, find out who is doing the plumbing. The City's Public Utilities Department says its 2010 to 2020 survey found no lead City-owned service lines, and since 2020 it has been documenting customer-owned lines on a service line material map.
Questions about your own line go to 619-668-3232. California's contractor law, B&P 7048, exempts a job under $1,000 only when the work is casual, minor or inconsequential, needs no building permit and isn't part of a larger operation. A company that splits one job into pieces to stay under that line loses the exemption.
What restoration costs near San Diego
Nobody has quoted us a restoration job in San Diego, so the page carries no city price. The California page shows the estimates beside what the nearest federal occupation is paid ($29.21 an hour in the BLS wage data, which is pay, not price). How we estimate costs.
Permits for restoration work in San Diego
Start with the City of San Diego building department, and ask who issues permits for the rebuild.
When repairs touch the structure or the electrical, plumbing or mechanical systems, they usually need a permit from your city or township building department, so ask the company which of you pulls it.