where can I get the building plan drawings?

The Municipal office.

amybear wrote: ↑ I would like to renovate my house(built in 1963,4 level split house), I have submitted a request to the city for a building plan drawings, but they could not find it, I am wondering where else I could get it from? Thanks

If you're planning structural work your structural engineer will prepare a drawing. We were only taking down 1 main floor wall and our engineer prepared a drawing for all 3 floors of the house. In our municipality they only keep the drawings for ~5years.

Toukolou wrote: ↑ If you're planning structural work your structural engineer will prepare a drawing. We were only taking down 1 main floor wall and our engineer prepared a drawing for all 3 floors of the house. In our municipality they only keep the drawings for ~5years.

Could you share your approximate cost for the drawings?

amybear wrote: ↑ I would like to renovate my house(built in 1963,4 level split house), I have submitted a request to the city for a building plan drawings, but they could not find it, I am wondering where else I could get it from? Thanks

1964? Those drawings are long gone. You will need to have new ones created.

CensoredByRFD wrote: ↑ Could you share your approximate cost for the drawings?

You could probably ball park between $2 and 3k depending on the scope of the work. This would probably be for one or two alterations and a drawing set.

CensoredByRFD wrote: ↑ Could you share your approximate cost for the drawings?

SubjectivelyObjective wrote: ↑ You could probably ball park between $2 and 3k depending on the scope of the work. This would probably be for one or two alterations and a drawing set.

We paid $2k. Full floor plans as well as elevation drawings, 16 pages. Very quick turnaround for us too, ~10 days.

Toukolou wrote: ↑ We paid $2k. Full floor plans as well as elevation drawings, 16 pages. Very quick turnaround for us too, ~10 days.

How many hours did they spend on-site taking measurements?

CensoredByRFD wrote: ↑ Could you share your approximate cost for the drawings?

SubjectivelyObjective wrote: ↑ You could probably ball park between $2 and 3k depending on the scope of the work. This would probably be for one or two alterations and a drawing set.

projectman44 wrote: ↑ How many hours did they spend on-site taking measurements?

Couple/three hours? Give or take.

Measured, opened up sections of wall, etc...

smitty9999 wrote: ↑ 1964? Those drawings are long gone. You will need to have new ones created.

or they are stored in a central filing room and no municipal employee is going to sift through hundreds to thousands of improperly stored rolls of paper.

Toukolou wrote: ↑ We paid $2k. Full floor plans as well as elevation drawings, 16 pages. Very quick turnaround for us too, ~10 days.

Wow, that's super reasonable. Thanks for the info. It seems like the price can vary quite a bit. Some firms want almost $1K just to take measurements.

I tried to get my 2000 built house plans in 2007 and the County of Brant laughed at me. We bought in 2007 and were the second owners.

Not a true compatible but got drawings done for my pool permit done for $500

CensoredByRFD wrote: ↑ Wow, that's super reasonable. Thanks for the info. It seems like the price can vary quite a bit. Some firms want almost $1K just to take measurements.

You're probably going to want a smaller firm to get a better price on it. To cover their costs at a min of $125-150 an hour for an Engineer, the site visits can get expensive fast.

Most of the time for a simple wall removal for the site visit and drawing set its usually around $2k or a bit more. Just in terms of liability to stamp something you're only billing $2k for is a pretty good deal for the homeowner.