Denver inspections start after the permit is issued

An inspection is the back half of a permit, not a separate favor you ask of the city. Inspections get scheduled against permits that have already been issued, so the request only makes sense once your permit exists in the first place. When the day comes, the daily inspection list shows estimated time windows for those visits rather than a fixed appointment. In practice that means planning around a span of hours instead of a clock time, and keeping the work ready whenever the inspector happens to arrive within it.

During a remodel that span can matter, because work on the affected part of the project may have to pause while a required inspection is still pending: there are stages you are not supposed to cover up until someone has signed off on what is underneath. The same record matters long after the dust settles, too. A buyer trying to tell whether old work was ever actually inspected is looking for exactly this trail of issued permits and passed checks.

Tidy records are what make either situation easy. As an owner, hold permit numbers, inspection results, and correction notices together in one place so the history is simple to hand off. As a buyer, lean on a passed final inspection over “the contractor said it was fine” — one is a record, the other is a memory. Denver’s inspection pages are where that official record lives.