Bentleyville, Ohio
Bathroom remodeling in Bentleyville
In Bentleyville the in-wall plumbing, the pan or membrane check, the rough electrical, and the final are each a SAFEbuilt call placed a day ahead with the permit number. Tile waits on the last signed hold.
A bath carries its inspections in front of the tile: the plumbing inside the wall, the pan or membrane where the village asks to see it, the rough electrical, the final. Bentleyville has no inspector on the village payroll. SAFEbuilt inspects, Monday through Friday from 7:45 a.m. to noon and from 1:00 to 3:45 p.m., on 24-hour notice, and asks for the permit number first. An address on Chagrin River Road is not a permit number.
Roman Ivakhnenko measures the room and writes the estimate himself. The pan or membrane, the valve, the fan and where it terminates, the tile, and each SAFEbuilt hold are separate lines, fixed or marked as an allowance. A licensed plumbing trade partner does the rough and the trim; a licensed electrical partner wires the fan and the GFCI. One name, NIR Solutions LLC, is on the contract. Waterproofing is settled before a tile is chosen, because a shower designed from the tile backward leaks in its second year.
The photographs on this page are from our own jobs on Cleveland’s east side. Each caption says what is in the frame and when. None is presented as work in Bentleyville.
The permit path in Bentleyville
- Settle which permit the bath isA toilet, shower, or fan that leaves its rough-in, or a wet wall that opens, means a plumbing permit and usually an electrical one. Roman asks the village before a demolition date is written; plan questions go to the Building Official, Jeff Filarski, at 440-399-0810, not to the inspector. NIR’s registration is municipal, Orange Village registration #4235, current through December 31, 2026, so Bentleyville takes its own filing before the permit.
- Register with the village, then file at Village HallWith the registration in, the drawings go to Village Hall, 440-247-5055, the village desk for plans, drawn to the 2019 Residential Code of Ohio. Village Hall takes the plans and the permit questions; it does not book the inspection. Planning & Zoning hears variances and lot changes, and a bath inside the existing walls raises neither.
- Rough in, then book SAFEbuiltDemolition waits for the stamp. Substrate, the pan or membrane, and the rough plumbing and electrical go in, and each hold is booked with SAFEbuilt at 440-399-0850, the village’s inspector, a full day ahead, permit number read off the card. A request at 4:00 in the afternoon is tomorrow’s inspection, and booking through Village Hall loses the day. Nothing is tiled until the plumbing and pan holds carry a signature.
- Finish and close the permitTile, fixtures, and paint follow the signed holds; glass only where it is a line. The final is the last SAFEbuilt booking, placed the day before under the same permit number. A fan that used to vent into the attic now leaves through a legal exterior termination.
On a Bentleyville bath estimate every hold reads SAFEbuilt; Village Hall appears once, next to the drawings.
What Bentleyville houses do to a bath estimate
Bentleyville houses are later than the core of Chagrin Falls, on wooded lots smaller than Hunting Valley’s, and the wet wall is gypsum board. What the board hides sets the number: the trap, the vent, and the supply either serve the new fixtures or become a replacement line, and a fan venting into the attic becomes a line for a legal exterior termination. The first question on the estimate is whether the fixtures stay on their rough-in or the room is rearranged.
A hall bath is often a stacked wet wall, so a waste line that moves opens the ceiling under it, kitchen or basement. On a river lot the basement has drainage, and moisture at that foundation is read before that ceiling comes down; a basement without a moisture line is the same mistake as in Moreland Hills, and only the inspector differs. A primary bath is the wider room, where a curb-less pan raises the floor and a door may stop clearing, so both are measured before a tile format is picked.
One bathroom, cement board to grout
Five photographs from a single bathroom, in order: the backer board, the waterproofing membrane, the tile layout, the tile set, the grout.
01 / 05Cement board walls around a tub before waterproofing, April 2026 
02 / 05Tub surround and floor coated with waterproofing membrane before tile, April 2026 
03 / 05Floor tile laid out on membrane with spacers, April 2026 
04 / 05Plank tile set with spacers, tub in place, April 2026 
05 / 05Floor tile grouted, wall tile in progress, April 2026
Questions from Bentleyville
Which edition of the Residential Code of Ohio does Bentleyville inspect a bath to?
The 2019 Residential Code of Ohio. That edition is what SAFEbuilt inspects to until the village adopts another, so the bath drawings that go to Village Hall are drawn to it, and the pan, the fan termination, and the GFCI are checked against it at each hold.
Who inspects a bathroom in Bentleyville, and when can the tile go on?
SAFEbuilt, at 440-399-0850, the village’s inspector, with 24 hours’ notice and the permit number. Village Hall takes the plans and the questions, not the booking; an inspection asked for there is a day lost.
My Bentleyville bath would add a window. Does it go to an architectural board first?
Not to one borrowed from Chagrin Falls; Bentleyville is not a historic village unless the house happens to be, and Planning & Zoning here hears variances and lot changes. A window is still an exterior change, so it stays out of scope until its permit path is written with Village Hall. Inside the existing walls, no board.
My Bentleyville house is on a river lot. Does that change a lower-level bath?
It changes the order. River lots in Bentleyville have drainage, so moisture at the foundation is read before a lower-level bath is drawn. If the grade or the drain is the problem, that is a line or a written exclusion before the pan is priced, and rot or mold found beyond the bath waits on a signed change order.
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