Solon, Ohio
Siding and windows in Solon
The board that can stop a Solon siding job is often not at City Hall. Subdivisions like Grantwood keep an architectural board that can refuse a color the city already stamped, on a calendar beside the 7 to 10 business day permit review.
Two clocks run on a Solon envelope job. The city clock starts when the application reaches Permit@Solonohio.org and typically runs 7 to 10 business days. The association clock starts whenever that board next meets, and no ordinance sets the date. Roman writes both onto the estimate when the street has a board, because a stamped permit and an approved color are separate approvals with separate rooms.
Solon publishes a simplified application for siding, windows and doors, and the shorter form is real. It is not looser code. Every subcontractor listed on the application has to hold a current Solon registration before the permit issues, so an installer added after filing keeps the file waiting. The form fits work that stays simple: the same openings, the same sizes, new skin over sound sheathing.
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 Solon.
The permit path in Solon
- Register firstSolon registration takes general liability of $1,000,000 each occurrence and $2,000,000 aggregate naming the City as additional insured, a sealed $25,000 registration bond, and a $100 fee. NIR Solutions carries $1,000,000 general liability plus contractors errors and omissions, so the certificate gets written to the city's form with the aggregate stated on it.
- File the simplified applicationThe application goes to Permit@Solonohio.org with the elevations being worked, the material, and the opening schedule. Review typically runs 7 to 10 business days. Every subcontractor is named on the form, because each of them has to be registered before the permit issues.
- Run the association board in parallelIf the subdivision has an architectural board, that submittal goes out the same week rather than after the permit lands. Grantwood and streets like it can refuse a color or a profile the city already stamped. Neither approval waits for the other, and neither one substitutes.
- Inspection and closeSiding usually closes on a final. A new or enlarged opening can draw a look at flashing before cladding covers it, so the schedule holds a day for that visit. Then the elevation worked is cleaned and punched.
A homeowner who occupies the house and is not in the trade may do the work themselves, and anyone hired still registers.
What Solon houses do to a siding and windows estimate
The stock runs from the 1970s through the 2000s, production and custom, on larger suburban lots. Gypsum sheathing, attached garages, elevations written into subdivision covenants. Because whole streets went up in waves, the skin and the windows age together, so the estimate here is usually one package instead of two visits. That helps the flashing: when the wall is open anyway, the wrap behind an opening gets replaced instead of covered for another twenty years.
Sheathing condition is what moves the number. On gypsum board the fasteners and the water history decide whether the wall takes new cladding directly or needs sections replaced, and nobody knows that until the old skin is off. It gets written as a change order rather than a guess. Openings are the other variable: same size and same swing keeps the job short, while enlarging one brings framing and a header into it.
Questions from Solon
My association already approved the color. Does that cover the Solon permit?
No. The board and the city are separate approvals on separate calendars. The board looks at color, profile, and how the elevation reads from the street. The city looks at code and at who is registered to do the work. A stamped permit does not settle a covenant, and a board letter does not open a permit file.
How long does the city take to review a siding and window application in Solon?
Typically 7 to 10 business days from a complete filing. Complete is the word doing the work: elevations, material, opening schedule, and every subcontractor listed and already registered. A file missing one registered installer waits, and that wait is not part of the 7 to 10 days.
Can a window be enlarged under the simplified application?
The simplified form fits work that stays simple, meaning the same openings at the same sizes. Enlarge one and framing and a header come into the job, so the application has to describe that instead of a like-for-like swap. A form that says less than the job does is the one that comes back.
Do I need a permit to paint the elevation instead of residing it?
Painting typically needs no permit here, and neither does wallpaper or same-size floor covering. That is the city's published list, not a general exemption for anything cosmetic. The moment the material on the wall changes or an opening changes size, the application and the registration list are back.
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