Bathroom Remodeling in Chicago

Clearance rules are mandatory on commercial jobs and inspected there. In houses they are almost never followed, which is why a bathroom can be finished to a high standard and still be uncomfortable to stand in. We hold to them anyway, because most of those dimensions exist for a plain reason: they make the room work.

Requirements are not uniform across the area. Evanston’s plumbing inspectors require a minimum of eighteen inches from the toilet centerline to the wall. Codes shift from village to village here, and inspectors carry real authority over how the code is read, so establishing which requirement applies before the walls go up is a large part of getting a bathroom through inspection.

None of it adds cost while the walls are still open. It adds a great deal once they are closed and a toilet has to be fitted into a thirty-inch gap.

Where the building department accepts a contractor’s own wall layout, we draw it ourselves rather than sending you to pay for one. That is not a way around anything: where stamped drawings, permits or inspections are required for the scope, they are filed and booked exactly as they would be otherwise.