Already designed your custom home or addition?
Send us your sketch, PDF or CAD Files! We make it permit-ready.
We don’t design. We convert your drawings into clean, code- and zoning-compliant permit sets—adding missing construction details and compliance notes, and removing unnecessary interiors and finishes for faster municipal approvals.
What We Do:
No design, no interiors: You provide the layout or concept sketches, we get you an approved and issued Development and/or building permit.
- Compliance-first conversion: We check your drawings for zoning and code, add the required construction details and compliance notations, and remove time-wasting detail that slows permit reviews.
- Municipal-ready packages: Tailored to Lower Mainland jurisdictions (e.g., Vancouver, Surrey, Burnaby, Richmond, Coquitlam), formatted to each city’s submission standards and checklists.
Who This Is For:
Home owners, retail or office lease tenant improvements, Interior designers, drafters, and builders who need a clean, permit-ready set. Fast
Existing Unpermitted Projects stalled by code or zoning issues that need expert remediation.
What to Send Us:
- Your current drawings (PDF, JPG; DWG…even a napkin sketch
- Property address
- Any prior municipal comments
What You Get Back:
- A stripped-down, permit-focused drawing set
- Site plan with zoning stats and required calculations (site coverage, FSR/FAR, setbacks, heights)
- Floor plans and key dimensions aligned to zoning envelopes
- Exterior elevations, sections, and critical details
- Window/door schedules (egress noted), smoke/CO detectors, guard and stair compliance
- Spatial separation calculations and protected openings
- Fire-resistance and separation notes (suites/garages), exiting/egress notes
- Energy/Step Code declarations and required notes (as applicable)
- Ventilation, insulation, and typical assembly notes
- Municipal submission sheets/checklists as required
- Code and Zoning Compliance Review
- Zoning bylaw review and compliance summary
- BC Building Code / Vancouver Building By-law checks
- Clear redline/comment report if changes to your design are required for compliance
- Missing Construction Details & Notes
- Typical assemblies and standardized details acceptable to local AHJs
- Clear, municipality-ready notation throughout the set
- Removal of Non-Essential Info
How It Works
- Share your design
- Send PDFs (or DWG/RVT), survey, and basics. We’ll scope and quote a fixed price.
- We review and convert
- Zoning and code compliance check
- We add required details/notes and remove unnecessary info
- You approve the set
- We walk you through any required design adjustments to achieve compliance
- Submit and respond
- Submit yourself or have us handle submission/expediting
- We respond to municipal comments until permit issuance (within defined scope)
Structural, geotechnical, mechanical, and energy modeling by others if required; we coordinate and integrate all sealed documents and schedules.
If your design cannot meet zoning or code without layout changes, we will identify required changes;
Typical Turnaround & Pricing:
Turnaround: typically 5–10 business days after complete files are received (project size and municipality may vary).
Fixed-price quotes: based on scope, completeness, municipality, and required coordination. No hourly billing, no scope creep.
Why PermitSets
Compliance-only focus: Faster, cleaner permits because we give reviewers exactly what they need—