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Originally Posted by look 171
Sounds like this is your home, John? Commercial kitchen in a home? To get that up to code and Im sure you aren't the first one who's done this, my biggest concern is insurance? Will it be insurance as a commercial kitchen, if not, a typical home owner insurance? What is a fire occurs? I am sure they will wiggle out as much as they can. Something to look into.
I built out two restaurants. They were high end one and it was a pain in my arse only because I was not use to building them and didn't know the specific codes even though they were in the plans.
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This is a former house, old wood (1908 four square), now triplex but zoned commercial, I may be buying to convert to commercial. My architect has gone through it, he thinks main costs will be 1) fire sprinklers, 2) commercial kitchen, 3) permits & related fees. So I’m trying to get educated on 1) and 2).
On 3), Portland sux. I used the city’s online estimator which appears super detailed and gives a line-by-line itemized estimate of total fees and charges. WTF $80,000!? So I spent an hour reading the city code and found that my project should be exempt from over half of that. Call architect, yup, total fees should be more like $30K. So, I ask, why did the online estimator say $80K? Well, these are exemptions, the property owner has to learn about them and affirmatively apply for them, they aren’t automatic, and the city doesn’t go out of its way to tell you about them.
So I’m trying to educate myself about everything else, just in case there’s other things like that.
And it’ll be insured etc as a commercial building, I have a quote for that already and sprinkler should help.