Title 24 reports for Fullerton permits.
Fullerton counts the energy calculations toward whether your application is complete at all — and its faster ADU clock reset when the 2025 code cycle began.
A missing energy set is an incomplete application
Fullerton names Title 24 energy calculations on its completeness list under California Building Code section 107. That placement matters: a missing or wrong-vintage energy set is not a correction cycle, it is an application that was never complete. The city moved to the 2025 code family for anything submitted on or after January 1, 2026, and an application filed before that keeps its 2022 vintage only until it expires — a date the city does not publish. No plan-check turnaround is published on the Building and Safety pages.
Ordinance No. 3343, adopted June 17, 2025, rewrote the ADU rules, and one clause is easy to miss: the ministerial clock is 60 days, dropping to 30 only for a city pre-approved plan or one identical to a plan approved within the current triennial code cycle. That cycle turned over on January 1, 2026, so a plan approved under the 2022 codes falls back to 60 days and its energy set has to be rebuilt. The ordinance also requires exterior materials, colors and roof slope to match the primary dwelling exactly — an envelope input, not just aesthetics — while an interior conversion carries no size cap at all. Fullerton publishes Climate Zone 8 on its own design-criteria list, and no local energy reach code beyond the state code was found on the city’s pages.
One thing that doesn’t change by city: my price and turnaround are flat statewide — $99 first report, $150 flat after, 24–48 hours on your first job. What differs city to city is what happens on the plan-check side before and after the CF1R lands in your permit set, which is what this page covers.
Prices
Flat fees, in writing before I start. No hourly, no bid package, no change-order games — the number on the quote is the number on the invoice.
Your first report with me
One per client, homes under 3,000 square feet. Full energy model, CF1R and CHEERS registration. It’s a test run — send one job and see how it goes.
Every model after the first
The standard rate once you’re a client — the second building, ADU plus main house, the next project that walks in. Back in 3 business days.
Over 3,000 square feet
Quoted from the plans before any work starts, same day.
24×36 plan-sheet set
Your CF1R laid out full size, matched to your drawing set. Comes back as a PDF you drop straight in.
Revisions
Two revisions included, plus questions any time. Past two I quote first, before I touch it.
Commercial / tenant improvement
Send the plans and you’ll have a flat quote back the same day. No deposit, no minimum.
One honest note
I’m not a licensed engineer or architect, and I don’t stamp drawings. On the CF1R I’m the documentation author — you stay the responsible designer. Nothing about your role on the job changes.
That’s on purpose. I’m not after your scope or your clients. I do one piece of the permit set — the piece that usually holds it up — and I do it fast.
Fullerton plan-check questions
If yours isn’t here, see the full FAQ or call and ask.
What happens in Fullerton if the energy calculations are missing?
Does an older ADU plan still get Fullerton’s 30-day review?
Does my ADU or addition actually need one?
Almost certainly. New conditioned floor area — ADUs, JADUs, garage conversions, additions — triggers Title 24. So do alterations that touch the envelope, the ductwork, or the HVAC equipment, including a straight change-out. A remodel that only moves non-structural interior partitions usually doesn’t.
Send it either way. If it doesn’t need a report I’ll say so and there’s no charge for the look.
What do you need from me to start?
A PDF of the architecturals and the project address. Floor plans, elevations and a window schedule is plenty.
You don’t need the HVAC or water heater picked. If the plans don’t call them out, I model what I’d normally specify for that job — and I list every assumption in the email so nothing is buried. Swap any of it and I rerun; that doesn’t count against your free revisions.
The design doesn’t have to be finished either. Early is often better, because that’s when a compliance problem is still cheap to fix.
Send your Fullerton plans.
The CF1R comes back built to the 2025 standards, so the energy line on Fullerton’s completeness list is answered before the counter ever sees the package.