Kitchen and bath remodeling in Wakefield, MA, with inspections booked in the Building Inspector's morning and afternoon call-in windows.
Free · no obligation · we call back within 1 business day
Wakefield's Chapter 126 lets the Historical Commission hold a demolition permit for a 'significant' building, one on the National Register or on the commission's inventory, for six months after the application if it finds the building should be preserved. Asking for a waiver hearing carries a fee.
[1][2]The Building Inspector's office at 1 Lafayette Street takes building inspection requests by phone in set windows: 8 to 9 a.m. or 1 to 2 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 8 to 9 a.m. Friday. Wiring and plumbing inspections have their own windows.
[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
Wakefield inspections are requested by phone in short windows, 8 to 9 or 1 to 2 most weekdays. We plan rough and final inspections into the schedule so your kitchen isn't sitting open waiting on a call.
Gutting a kitchen isn't demolition under Wakefield's Chapter 126, which covers pulling down a building or starting its total or substantial destruction. Even in the Town Center historic areas, a remodel goes straight to the Building Inspector, not the Historical Commission.
Usually not long if they're booked right. Requests go in by phone during the inspector's set windows, so we call as soon as the work is ready.
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 Wakefield, look at the job and give you a written price. Free.
