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If you are a homeowner wishing to act as your own general contractor, you will be asked to complete a homeowner/builder code review before receiving your building permit. This review is actually more of a short course on residential building codes and procedures intended to help prevent unnecessary and costly mistakes during construction. If you will be doing your own plumbing or wiring, you will also need to take a homeowner plumbing and/or electrical code review before obtaining those respective permits. There is no mechanical review, although if the mechanical permit includes gas piping, such as for installing a gas fireplace, you will be asked to answer some gas piping questions from the plumbing review.

All of the reviews are open book and unlimited time, and can be taken anytime during normal business hours. You will be given a copy of the appropriate codebook for use during the review. The reviews are available only in the office, as the tests do not leave our office.

The homeowner is asked to sign a homeowner/builder agreement at the time of taking the review and will be kept in your building permit folder.

Please understand that as a homeowner/builder, you are obligated to fulfill the same responsibilities as a professional contractor, including knowledge of and complying with all requirements of the codes.

The homeowner/builder is defined in the amendment package as:

HOMEOWNER BUILDER is hereby defined as any individual who is the sole owner of the property subject to a building permit if the home is being built for the occupancy of the homeowner builder, and not for the purposes of commercial or residential development. Such homeowner builders may be allowed to pull building and technical permits to perform work on a detached single family residence, based in entirety upon their classification as a Homeowner. It shall be the duty of the individual applying for the permit to establish, to the satisfaction of the Building Official, that he or she is in fact a Homeowner Builder.

EXCEPTION: An owner of an attached single family residence may be issued permits as a Homeowner Builder for exterior decks or detached accessory buildings.

The permits for Homeowner Builders may be pulled only after passing the required educational examinations for each permit. Homeowner Builders may pull permits no sooner than 2 years after receiving a certificate of occupancy on any previous project done as a Homeowner Builder, except that the ability to pull permits for alterations or additions to homes owned and occupied by any Homeowner Builder shall not be limited by any such time period constraints.

Telephone: 970.668.3170 FAX: 970.668.4255
Postal address: PO Box 5660, Frisco, CO, 80443
Physical address: 37 Peak One Drive, County Road 1005, Frisco, CO, 80443
Electronic mail: bidepartment@co.summit.co.us