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271. Posted: 14 Sep 2014 08:03 - Properties / Advice regarding building/permits/surveying PLEASE!
Sorry no advice from me. I will say that things heal after time. Very few of the buildings on my town property have been permitted over the last forty years, yet they know all about them now and don't know or choose to bother me. That's in the U...
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272. Posted: 4 Sep 2014 09:05 - Cabin Construction / Cabin meets RV?
...ances actually say? Where I am you can't live in an RV on your land permanently, but if you have a septic system you can stay there 4 months out of the year. Not sure how far you will gets with building a house with garage to house the RV. If you try to get a permit for any building, they are going to closely scrutinize it. Anything permit...
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273. Posted: 3 Sep 2014 18:11 - Cabin Construction / Cabin meets RV?
...electric? Check state and local rules. That can vary a lot from place to place. Some states have special rules for limited use camps, as they are often called. Many states do not. ~~~~ Frequently buildings or land uses that do not meet the letter of the law are turned in to the government by others in the area. Those others are usually ones who have complied with the rules and get ups...
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274. Posted: 1 Sep 2014 20:54 - Off-Grid Living / Alaska the last free state?
I'm in Missouri also and the county I am in has no restrictions. I have a dry cabin and an outhouse. Did not need a building permit for my cabin. I think there are quite a few counties in Missouri that are this way. The closer to a metropolitan area the more restrictions.
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275. Posted: 25 Aug 2014 12:15 - Cabin Construction / Cabin Concept - 14 x 20 (elnarged with lean-tos)
...ncern. We've decided to scale back our plans and build a simpler cabin using the 14'x20' barn and adding a simple 6' porch. I am posting today to get some opinions on the idea of building this on a 12' or 14' wide tri-axle mobile home frame. This would give me the option to move the cabin should we decide to build more permanent building in ...
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276. Posted: 20 Aug 2014 08:43 - Member's Projects and Photos / 20 x 24 getting started Northern WI
Well. I came up Friday and all the gravel is down and leveled out. I need to get the building permit for the storage shed now. Installed a garage door for my girlfriends landlord over the weekend. I'm leaving today to get my work trailer so I can begin ...
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277. Posted: 16 Aug 2014 15:45 - Off Topic / Big Boy Forts
...g, perhaps walled in with windows, on a hillside overlooking a forested draw. Peaceful place to just sit. Works out that a true octagon at 12 x 12 feet is just under 120 sq ft, the legal limit for a building with no permit.
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278. Posted: 14 Aug 2014 20:37 - Cabin Construction / Construction Team Will Travel Idea
Yes, I'm new. my first post There is nothing like building your own home and the pride of ownership. Not everyone can do that. I was just thinking that in the fair weather months, there might be a solution to help others and have a vacation...
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279. Posted: 14 Aug 2014 11:08 - Off-Grid Living / Alaska the last free state?
... I know where bigriver's cabin is and I can tell you in that area of Missouri, there are no laws requiring you to have water in you cabin. Also, in most rural counties in Missouri, there are no building permits and no code inspections and all that bs. Although I don't live in it full time, my cabin has no running water other than caught rain for the toilet. M...
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280. Posted: 13 Aug 2014 21:13 - General Forum / Anyone else just camping on your property?
For a while I had my heart set on building a traditional cottage, but now we've come around to thinking that permit-free and off-grid use of the property is the way to go. So we built a really nice 12x...
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281. Posted: 13 Aug 2014 12:59 - Member's Projects and Photos / Island 12 x 20 cabin with loft
Very nice ... Were you required to obtain any building permits?
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282. Posted: 11 Aug 2014 18:25 - Off-Grid Living / Alaska the last free state?
I live in a state with lots of permits, taxes, fees and regulations. Let me first say building a cabin helped me find all of them. If I had to do it over again I would have just purchased a nice 5th wheel trailer and put it on my land. No permit...
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283. Posted: 10 Aug 2014 20:18 - Off-Grid Living / Do I NEED running water at my cabin in PA - legally?
I know when I started building my cabin in PA , I was told that I could get an affidavit and forgo the building permit. But than I could not live in the cabin if I so desire at so...
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284. Posted: 10 Aug 2014 12:02 - Properties / Multiple Cabins on your property?
...r status as far as taxes goes and when I built mine, they removed 1 acres for the "homesite" as they called it, so I have 19.25 in timber status now. They allow up to 20% of my property for buildings. More than that, I would lose my timber tax break on that 20.25 acres. Not sure if they would remove another acre for a second dwelling because my first certainly didn't occupy...
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285. Posted: 7 Aug 2014 21:40 - Properties / Avoid building permit?
I am sure i have read all the posts at one time or another . If I'm not mistaken what the primary question was "Can I build without a permit ?" Not so much about the building codes but skirting town regulations . If you follow "Tiny Houses " you see fine examples of people living quite well in homes not permitte...
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286. Posted: 7 Aug 2014 20:37 - Properties / Avoid building permit?
...d caught the barn on fire. Okay, so, stuff happens, right? Problem is by the time they put out that fire, half the city of Chicago burned to the ground. This was a large part of the beginnings of the building codes, which, among other things, reduce fire hazards by various means. But the codes have gone way, way beyond such basic safety rules and are so complex now that they resemble th...
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287. Posted: 7 Aug 2014 16:55 - Member's Projects and Photos / Cabin in Quebec 16x38
Looks great Steve. I'm in the Ottawa area too. Do you think Arie would be interested in building one of his cabins on a water access only property? I'd be looking for something 12x8 or so (to stay under the "no permit" rules, and materials would ...
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288. Posted: 5 Aug 2014 18:14 - General Forum / DIY Power Poles
...o place regarding rigid conduit burial depth. The NEC says 24" for roads and 18" for driveways, just like pvc. But evidently it is accepted at less elsewhere. Best to check with your local building dept. before you start. In my area, they didn't even want to see the conduit burial or include it in a permit, except where it entered the footing of a ...
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289. Posted: 5 Aug 2014 16:22 - Properties / Avoid building permit?
Disclaimer: I haven't read through all of the posts to see if my statements have already been made. Building permits help protect you and everyone else that sets foot on or in your structure. If there is an accident and the insurance company / law / victim's family /...
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290. Posted: 5 Aug 2014 11:32 - General Forum / Ontario Building Code - decks?
... a property line, fit within the waterfront rules and do not use PT wood too close to the water etc. My $50 permit to build the cabin covered the same stuff and was never really inspected regarding the actual construction (to Quebec or national building codes - although it was). So, you may not need a permit to meet the building co...
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291. Posted: 5 Aug 2014 07:50 - General Forum / Ontario Building Code - decks?
...akefront property. With a bit of digging in a few areas I think I should be able to keep it within 24" off the ground. The question is, if I keep it within 24" of the ground, do I need a building permit? The following is from the City of Ottawa website: Under the Ontario Building Code Act, a building permit...
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292. Posted: 2 Aug 2014 13:24 - Off Topic / tent platforms
I've actually been giving a lot of thought of building a really large tent platform (20'x30') and putting a permanent installation of a big wall tent on it (16'x20'). Google "Deluxe Wall Tents" (a Canadian...
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293. Posted: 13 Jul 2014 12:26 - Properties / Building a cabin in ontario (permits and fees)
I don't have my copy of my drawings available to post at the moment. I used 10 - 4" x 6" x 3/16" x 27 ft long posts to set my building and dock out in the water. Seven posts are in the water and three of them are only 13 feet long and embedded into the slope of the shoreline. Nothing makes contact with the upper lev...
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294. Posted: 24 Jun 2014 00:21 - Cabin Construction / Bath house questions
I own 1 acre and I am allowed 2 buildings near Baldwin. My township allows you to build a building up to 100sqft without a permit and thats the route I chose. I currently have an outhouse...
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295. Posted: 23 Jun 2014 22:01 - Cabin Construction / Bath house questions
At our hunt camp we have a 2 holer, it is outback, we also have a small sauna building , our water is heated by a wood stove with saddle tanks . No shower, just get a pailful of warm water , give yourself a good scrubbing. no need for power in either. No permit...
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296. Posted: 10 Jun 2014 22:56 - Member's Projects and Photos / North Western WI Cabin
The first weekend I went up to the property and mowed the grass and hauled brush away from where we were going to start building. No permits are required as the sq. ft. of the cabin is 400sq. ft. or under. There are however land use permits required due to the water frontage. ...
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297. Posted: 7 Jun 2014 20:19 - Properties / Building a cabin in Quebec
Quoting: andrew_zyticSo you can see that if you want small cabins in Quebec you are better off trying to find an established building that is grandfathered. Andrew I have such a place about two 12 by 16 and one 12 by 12 rooms build at different times cobbled together into a single building. The ...
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298. Posted: 7 Jun 2014 14:24 - Properties / Ontario Building Permits
If you read the definitions in the OBC act, you'll find that anything under 108 sq ft is not a 'building' and therefore can't be considered an 'accessory building'. I think people are being allowed or encouraged to not understand this, but I haven...
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299. Posted: 6 Jun 2014 08:19 - Cabin Construction / Deck planning
...ple lam 2x10s with joists 2x8 16"O/C. I used 4/4x6" decking, all wood was PT. Extra PT ledger board on camp joist and then joists attached with hangers. My beam runs parallel to the main building obviously. The deck has held up amazingly well. I have a metal roof which discharges half it's snow load right on to the deck - some pretty wild build ups of ice/snow which ...
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300. Posted: 22 May 2014 14:15 - Cabin Construction / Building permit or no building permit, that is the question..
... interpretations may vary. If the up to cabin plan involves rental/lease in ant way you will likely have a whole set of other rules to deal with. Many times that sq footage figure is for accessory buildings w/o a permit; not a habitable building. I recommend talking to the zoning and planning department and building permit...
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