Casa Grande Building Inspections for New Homes: The Sequence Through Final and CO

A new home in Casa Grande gets checked at set points while it is built, and each point has to pass before a crew seals its work behind concrete, drywall, or stucco. The chain ends with a final inspection, and on a new house Casa Grande pairs that with two more finals to release your Certificate of Occupancy, the paper that legally lets you move in. This page lays out the order, the city's WebPermits scheduling rule, and how the finals generate the CO.

The inspection sequence

The inspector follows the build from the ground up and catches each stage while the work is still open. Casa Grande lists the required inspections on the record card attached to your permit, and a new home runs roughly this order:

1. Foundation. After the footing trench and rebar are set, before any concrete is poured.
2. Under-slab. When the plumbing, electrical, and mechanical under the floor are placed, before the slab buries them.
3. Roof and framing. When sheathing, tie-downs, walls, fire blocking, and the rough plumbing, electrical, and mechanical are all in, before any cover-up.
4. Insulation. Before drywall.
5. Lath. Before stucco or plaster.
6. Final. When the home is finished and every fixture is set, before occupancy.

The order is firm because the city is explicit that "Work shall not be concealed prior to obtaining an inspection." For example, suppose a framer finishes a 2,600 square foot Casa Grande home and the drywall crew boards the walls before the framing inspection is called. Because the wiring, plumbing rough-in, and fire blocking are hidden behind that board, the inspector cannot approve them and the inspection fails. The crew cuts the new drywall back open, re-inspects, then re-patches, costing a week and labor. The City of Casa Grande is the authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) . Casa Grande sits in Pinal County, so the city, not the county, runs these inspections, and its adopted codes are the 2018 I-codes.

How scheduling and the final tie to your CO

You schedule, cancel, and reschedule inspections through the city's WebPermits portal (rogue.casagrandeaz.gov/WebPermits), and you need your permit number. Casa Grande runs on a same-day cutoff:

The City does not provide same-day inspections unless the inspection is received by 11:59 pm on the inspection date. Inspection requests received after 11:59 pm will be scheduled for the following business day.

Inspectors arrive any time from 6 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., so plan the site to be ready early. To cancel a same-day inspection you call the office at 520-421-8630, and to request a time window you email insptimerequest@casagrandeaz.gov by 11:59 p.m. the morning of the inspection.

Casa Grande makes the finish line a group effort. On a new home the city ties three inspections together:

When requesting a Building Final, you will also be required to add a Planning Final and DC Engineering Final inspection to close out the permit and generate a Certificate of Occupancy.

So the Building Final alone is not enough. The Planning Final and the Development and Construction Engineering Final have to pass too, and together they generate the Certificate of Occupancy, the record that the home meets code and may be lived in.

When this comes into play

This spans the whole construction phase:

• Pour days. A footing or slab cannot be poured until the foundation or under-slab inspection passes, so the WebPermits schedule drives the concrete schedule.
• Close-in. Framing, electrical, plumbing, and mechanical are inspected before insulation and drywall. A failure here halts the cover-up.
• Move-in. The three finals and the Certificate of Occupancy are what legally clear you to occupy. A closing or mortgage often needs the CO first.

What this means for you

Schedule through WebPermits and remember the 11:59 p.m. cutoff, because a late request bumps you to the next business day and can stall a pour. Have the site ready by 6 a.m. on inspection day, since the inspector can come anytime in the window. Most important on a new home, do not treat the final inspection as a single step. Add the Planning Final and DC Engineering Final with your Building Final, or the permit will not close and the CO will not generate. Never conceal wiring, plumbing, or framing before its inspection, and do not move in before the Certificate of Occupancy issues, because occupying without it is a code violation.

This entry closes the Casa Grande module loop. The codes your work is inspected against are in Casa Grande Adopted Building Codes , and the permit that authorizes the build is covered in Casa Grande Residential Building Permit Requirements . To set inspections in the full build sequence, see the steps to building a custom home in Arizona .

Source

The WebPermits scheduling rule, the 11:59 p.m. cutoff, and the three-final Certificate of Occupancy step are published by the City of Casa Grande: Building Inspections on casagrandeaz.gov . For the Building Division overview, see Building .

Use this as background, not a formal code ruling. The city can change its WebPermits process, cutoff, or three-final CO step, so verify what applies now with the Casa Grande Building Division before you schedule.