{"items": [{"author": "Andrew", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/971824239312?comment_id=971824743302", "anchor": "fb-971824743302", "service": "fb", "text": "Consider sealing the bathroom floor and installing a drain if you're tearing things up anyway. Makes it easy to clean and makes it safe to leak water on the floor after/during showering.
I don't think it's actually illegal to do your own electrical work on your property, but maybe it's different if you have a rental unit? You could probably make a case of it if you wanted to be difficult...
https://www.marionma.gov/.../i-would-perform-my-own...", "timestamp": "1544543918"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/971824239312?comment_id=971824743302&reply_comment_id=971826090602", "anchor": "fb-971824743302_971826090602", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Andrew that's Marion MA. I don't believe Somerville allows homeowners to do their own electrical or plumbing.", "timestamp": "1544544511"}, {"author": "Andrew", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/971824239312?comment_id=971824743302&reply_comment_id=971826599582", "anchor": "fb-971824743302_971826599582", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Jeff Kaufman -- state law allows it, supposedly. Some towns just choose to obstruct state law to protect union scum.", "timestamp": "1544544761"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/971824239312?comment_id=971824743302&reply_comment_id=971848695302", "anchor": "fb-971824743302_971848695302", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Andrew I think the way it works is that you have to get approval from the inspector, and in Somerville they have a policy of never giving that approval to the homeowner.", "timestamp": "1544553622"}, {"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/971824239312?comment_id=971824743302&reply_comment_id=971849339012", "anchor": "fb-971824743302_971849339012", "service": "fb", "text": "→ My experience has been that each municipality is free to interpret state law as they choose. So, Newton would cite state law as why homeowners can't do their own electrical work, and Waltham would cite state law as to why homeowners CAN.
Last time it mattered to me, I shopped around to find an electrician who was willing to inspect and correct my work and sign off on it. This worked well. We left everything open so he could verify that we'd done it right, we were meticulous in sticking to code, and he didn't have any corrections to make. Of course, not every electrician will be willing to do this, and you have to leave things open and visible until they can fit you into their schedule.", "timestamp": "1544554289"}, {"author": "Andrew", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/971824239312?comment_id=971824743302&reply_comment_id=971851554572", "anchor": "fb-971824743302_971851554572", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Good approach to give a rent-seeking union scumbag a cut of their job, thus satisfying the corrupt system.", "timestamp": "1544554964"}, {"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/971824239312?comment_id=971824743302&reply_comment_id=971855007652", "anchor": "fb-971824743302_971855007652", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Andrew It also insured that we actually correctly interpreted and met Code requirements.", "timestamp": "1544555670"}, {"author": "Andrew", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/971824239312?comment_id=971824743302&reply_comment_id=971855062542", "anchor": "fb-971824743302_971855062542", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Michael -- so would an inspection, right? Except that you had to pay a middleman/parasite as well as paying the regular inspection fees.
I bet that he charged about 50% of what the job would have cost if he did it himself, just because he knew the God damned system had you by the yarbles.", "timestamp": "1544555715"}, {"author": "Gianna", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/971824239312?comment_id=971825147492", "anchor": "fb-971825147492", "service": "fb", "text": "We have a friend in Arlington who gutted and reno'd a bathroom recently - he had a similar estimate to what you posted and it ended up taking him the entire summer plus a little more. not continuously, obviously, but in terms of calendar time. Of course, if you have more than one bathroom it doesn't really matter...", "timestamp": "1544544150"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/971824239312?comment_id=971825147492&reply_comment_id=971826285212", "anchor": "fb-971825147492_971826285212", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Gianna we're planning not to take another housemate until this is done, so it will be three adults and two kids with the remaining bathroom", "timestamp": "1544544599"}, {"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/971824239312?comment_id=971826799182", "anchor": "fb-971826799182", "service": "fb", "text": "Don't buy the fixtures until you gut and measure and do the math. There are rules for downslope for drain lines. Especially if the stack pipe is cast iron, you would like to avoid having to replace a whole section of the stack pipe with the drain connections, to lower the connections a couple of inches. You may have to resort to an unusual toilet design to make it work with the old stack pipe connections, maybe one of those toilets that cantilevers off the wall rather than sitting on the floor. Or put the toilet on a small platform, to raise a standard toilet and its standard seat to the height of a handicapped toilet seat, which most people will find unusual, but which will allow for longer horizontal waste pipe distance to the stack pipe.", "timestamp": "1544544923"}, {"author": "Andrew", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/971824239312?comment_id=971826799182&reply_comment_id=971827527722", "anchor": "fb-971826799182_971827527722", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Or just get a 15\" high (the old standard) toilet vs 17-19\" and build the platform, so it will feel \"normal\" even with a slightly raised floor area.", "timestamp": "1544545501"}, {"author": "Andrew", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/971824239312?comment_id=971826799182&reply_comment_id=971827702372", "anchor": "fb-971826799182_971827702372", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Or if you're talking about a few inches, raise the entire floor, have a step up to go into the bathroom, and either raise the tub or keep it below grade.", "timestamp": "1544545605"}]}