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271. Posted: 29 Sep 2014 13:33 - Member's Projects and Photos / 10x12 "D log" cabin
Don't pour concrete until you know whether the building dept. wants to see it before it is poured. Waste of time and money if you do. Inspecting footings before they are poured is one of the major things we do. It's always impossible...
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272. Posted: 26 Sep 2014 19:39 - Member's Projects and Photos / 10x12 "D log" cabin
The under 120 sq with no permit is only for a storage shed, many of us have built no-permit sheds and sleep in them now and then. If you tipped them its going to be a cabin then you might wind up building to code, which would be rough looking at the point your build is at now. Also when you label it as a habitable structure you will run into codes for...
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273. Posted: 26 Sep 2014 18:21 - Member's Projects and Photos / 10x12 "D log" cabin
The upper piers did hit rock "ledge" before I got down too far. 1 of the 3 lower piers hit rock. The others are 3-4 ft deep. Can anyone with building experience give any comments or suggestions after looking at the pictures? I am just now dealing with my county. It was my understanding that I could build under 120 sq ft without ...
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274. Posted: 23 Sep 2014 13:19 - Member's Projects and Photos / 12 X 16 in VA
So apparently when you add a bath and kitchen it becomes a "dwelling" and needs a building permit!!!!! (shaking my head...)
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275. Posted: 14 Sep 2014 20:04 - Properties / Advice regarding building/permits/surveying PLEASE!
I would suggest you consider talking with the municipality (phone call) and find out how hard it is to get a building permit. You can build 50 ft (or maybe 75 - cannot remember) from the water and you may find that a permit is simple and easy. If you try to build ...
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276. Posted: 14 Sep 2014 19:21 - Properties / Advice regarding building/permits/surveying PLEASE!
Thanks guys, for your replies! Good points, I think I need the certificate of location for my own protection, especially since it is a private document and doesn't seem to interfere with any building plans. My main concern is that the new deed will likely mention only 1 dwelling, which makes it difficult/impossible to later claim there were always 2. All I really want is a ...
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277. Posted: 14 Sep 2014 18:58 - Properties / Advice regarding building/permits/surveying PLEASE!
...ality will be the least bit interested in it. You need to decide if you need it to provide your own protection - is the land properly registered and surveyed, are there any rules that may impact the buildings etc etc. With the recent push that Quebec undertook to reform its land registry system in 1994, a process that continued until 2011, cadastral numbers - the land registry numbers u...
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278. 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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279. 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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280. 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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281. 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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282. 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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283. 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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284. 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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285. 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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286. 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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287. 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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288. 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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289. 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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290. 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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291. 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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292. 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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293. 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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294. 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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295. 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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296. 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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297. 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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298. 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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299. 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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300. 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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