Building differently than plans

[Greg Mildenberger]

We’ve had drawings done to convert a bungalow with an illegal basement suite to a legalized basement suite, and drawings submitted to the city (Hamilton) but not yet approved. I’m speaking to a few trades, we now think it’ll be much more efficient to do something differently from the submitted renderings (basement had a walk through laundry room en route to the suite; we’ve since located the stack and it will be easier to add separate laundry on the main floor than physically separating the basement laundry). In a nutshell, how difficult is it to change course? Will our inspector adhere strictly to the drawings, or more so to code and not care as long as everything is compliant? Is it inspector dependent? Am I making a deal out of nothing, or will I possibly need to get drawings altered at some point? Cheers