Kitchen and bathroom remodeling in Somerville, scheduled for the city's construction window: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays, 9 to 7 on Saturdays.
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Somerville bars noisy construction tools and equipment before 7 a.m. and after 7 p.m. on weekdays, and before 9 a.m. and after 7 p.m. on Saturdays and the days after Thanksgiving and Christmas. Noisy construction isn't allowed on Sundays or Massachusetts legal holidays.
[1]Handling building materials, crates or dumpsters between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. in a way that causes a noise disturbance is banned under the same ordinance.
[1]A construction dumpster can't go on any Somerville street, public or private, without a permit from the superintendent of inspectional services. Each day a violation continues counts as a separate offense.
[1]One statewide building code. Massachusetts uses a single building code for every town: 780 CMR, now in its tenth edition. Your local building department enforces it and issues the permits. source
Dig Safe before digging. State law requires notice to Dig Safe at least 72 hours before digging, not counting weekends and legal holidays. That includes holes for deck footings. Call 811. source
Somerville wants an Inspectional Services permit before a construction dumpster lands on any street, public or private, and every day of a violation is a new offense. We file it before the old cabinets come out.
Loading out debris after dark is its own rule here. Noisy handling of building materials or dumpsters between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. is banned, so our haul-outs happen in daylight.
Not with noisy tools. Somerville's noise ordinance rules out noisy construction on Sundays and Massachusetts legal holidays, and Saturday work can't start before 9 a.m.
Our work around Boston and the North Shore.
Local rules change. We link the official pages so you can check the current version, and we confirm what your job needs when we come look.
Send a request or give us a ring. We'll come to Somerville, look at the job and give you a written price. Free.
