About This Site
We build outdoor kitchens and outdoor living structures across Edmond and the Oklahoma City metro, and we publish what it costs before you ask.
Covered outdoor loungeEverything here is checkable
Every permit statement on this site names the document or the department it came from. The exemption thresholds are quoted from Edmond’s own published handout. The adopted codes are listed with the date the city adopted them. The licensing position is quoted from the Oklahoma Construction Industries Board and from the city, because the two do not say the same thing and the difference matters.
The cost bands are planning ranges and say so everywhere they appear, including inside the calculators. Where sources disagreed badly we did not average them into a fake consensus; we split the category instead, which is why the fire-feature calculator asks which of three products you actually mean.
And where a figure could not be verified, it is absent rather than estimated. That is why no permit fee appears anywhere on this site.
What this site will not do
No invented credentials
No licence number, no review count, no star rating, no years in business, no project total. If it is not evidenced it is not on the page.
No unverified figures
Where a number could not be confirmed it is missing on purpose. The permit fee is the clearest example.
Ranges labelled as ranges
Every cost figure is a planning range for this market and says so, including everything the calculators produce.
No locality claims on photos
The photographs show the kind of structure being described. None is presented as a project in Edmond or any named community.
Two different answers, both true
Ask whether Oklahoma licenses contractors and you get a confusing answer, because it depends who is asking about what. At state level the Oklahoma Construction Industries Board licenses electrical, plumbing, mechanical and HVAC, roofing registration, building and construction inspectors, and home inspectors, and is explicit that general contractors are not currently required to hold a state licence.
Edmond requires one anyway. The city’s published position is that a general building contractor’s licence is required for permit submittal, that residential contractors carry current general liability and workman’s compensation for permit submittal, and that trade contractors hold active city and state licences. City trade licences expire on July 31 each year.
So the useful question to ask any contractor here is not “are you licensed” but “show me the city licence you will pull the permit on, and the state licences of the trades doing the gas and the power”.
City of Edmond
City of Edmond Department of Building & Safety
Monday to Thursday 7:30am to 5:30pm, Friday 7:30am to 5:00pm. Lobby walk-in Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm.
Adopted codes
In force since 14 August 2023
Edmond adopted the 2018 ICC family of codes on 14 August 2023, alongside the 2020 National Electrical Code.
Who may pull it
Licensing, briefly
Oklahoma does not license general contractors at state level, but Edmond requires a general building contractor’s licence for permit submittal and trade contractors must hold both city and state licences.
Ask us something specific
The more specific the question the more useful the answer. An address and a rough size is plenty to start with.
About this site
Are you licensed?
Oklahoma does not license general contractors at state level: the Oklahoma Construction Industries Board states plainly that general contractors are not currently required to hold a state licence. It licenses electrical, plumbing, mechanical and HVAC, roofing registration, building and construction inspectors, and home inspectors. Edmond is separate and does require a general building contractor’s licence for permit submittal, and requires trade contractors to hold active city and state licences. This site publishes no licence number, and you should ask any contractor including us to show you theirs before work starts. The permits page explains how to check.
Why do you publish your prices?
Because the ranges are real and hiding them only delays the moment somebody finds out. A homeowner who knows the band walks into the conversation able to have it, which is a better conversation for both sides.
Where does the information on this site come from?
Permit and code statements come from the City of Edmond’s published permit handout and its adopted-codes page, and from the Oklahoma Construction Industries Board. Structural design figures come from the 2018 International Residential Code as adopted. Community facts come from each city’s own site, the US Census and the Oklahoma Historical Society. Cost bands are market planning ranges from national databases adjusted for Oklahoma labour, plus Oklahoma-specific sources where they exist.
What has been left out on purpose?
Permit fee amounts, because none could be verified for any of the twenty-three jurisdictions covered here. A single frost-depth figure, because the code gives a range across Oklahoma and Edmond sets the local number. A population for Deer Creek, because it is not a census place. And any review, rating, project count or years-in-business claim, because we have not published one we could evidence.