Title 24 reports for Orange permits.
In Orange the energy forms belong on the plan sheets, not in the packet — and an ADU has to clear Planning before Building plan check even opens.
Your energy forms go on the plan sheets
Orange accepts permit applications only through its Civic Portal, and its residential submittal checklist is blunt about the energy set: show compliance with State Title 24 requirements, and the forms shall be reproduced on the plans. Sheets run a minimum 18×24 and a maximum 36×42, plans by a licensed professional are stamped at submittal, and a building plan check goes in as three sets of plans plus two sets of calculations. That makes the CF1R a drafting deliverable here rather than an attachment — as true for an addition as for new construction.
ADU and JADU projects run sequentially: Planning has to approve a completed application before Building plan check opens, and the city gives itself 30 days to review each submittal and each resubmittal. Seven reviewers beyond Building may also need to sign off, from Planning and Fire to county Health and Public Works, and chasing them is expressly the applicant’s job. Orange publishes no general plan-check turnaround at all — that 30-day Planning clock is the only review time on the books, so the real cost here is coordination, not speed. The city is Climate Zone 8, and no local energy reach code beyond the state code was found on the city’s pages. An energy comment lands as a correction cycle of its own.
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.
Orange plan-check questions
If yours isn’t here, see the full FAQ or call and ask.
Does Orange publish a plan-check turnaround?
Can the CF1R go in as a separate PDF in Orange?
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.
Plan check came back with an energy comment. Now what?
Forward it to me. If it’s a job I did, the first two revisions are free and I answer the comment directly — you don’t have to translate between your plan checker and me.
If someone else did the original report, I’ll still take it. Send the comment and the existing CF1R and you’ll get a flat quote back the same day.
Send your Orange plans.
The CF1R comes back as sheet-ready pages sized for the city’s 18×24 to 36×42 envelope, so your drafter can drop it straight into the set.