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841. Posted: 7 Nov 2011 05:57 - Properties / Avoid building permit?
Wazzu, I don't know where you got your information it is not correct. Building permits are required in Montana. YOUR choice in not participating is personal and will get you on the wrong side of your building inspectors.
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842. Posted: 6 Nov 2011 23:05 - Cabin Construction / trusses: is this a good deal?
Good deal if you can use them, but I wouldn't change my cabin design just for that. 24' is a good length for a garage though. If you need a building permit, make sure you get all the required engineering documentation.
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843. Posted: 5 Nov 2011 18:42 - Properties / Avoid building permit?
...hould it continue, property rights may dissolve entirely. A large problem in the USA is that many "environmental" laws have no basis in science and have more to do with enhancing revenue. Building permits are often the most egregious of these. Regardless of your politics, any construction should be responsible whether it's required by government or not. ...
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844. Posted: 5 Nov 2011 18:05 - Properties / Avoid building permit?
I don't have any problem with getting building permits, as long as they don't cost an exorbitant amount (like some places in California, where it can cost more for the permits than for the m...
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845. Posted: 5 Nov 2011 16:36 - Properties / Avoid building permit?
Well, I don't have a lot of money but made sure I got building permits. As far as the comment about Native Americans a high price was paid for what you consider "freedom".
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846. Posted: 4 Nov 2011 20:29 - Useful Links and Resources / Building Codes Online
I know that the mention of building codes will raise the hackles of a few, but there may be some readers who would be interested. To my mind the codes are a wealth of information to a do-it-yourself builder. Even if th...
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847. Posted: 27 Oct 2011 23:45 - Properties / Building a bunkie in Northern Ontario
Hello all, Great website, and plenty of excellent information to be found here. I have purchased 7 acres of relatively flat waterfront property, and am anticipating building a small cabin in the spring. This property is about 4 hours from Toronto. I have enquired about building a 100 sq ft cabin without a permit, and...
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848. Posted: 24 Oct 2011 19:02 - Properties / Newbie questions
...re laying out the cash or signing an agreement to purchase check what covenants come along with the land. There may be an association with rules on min sq footage, etc. Then there are also zoning and building permit regulations that can also stipulate building size, privy or septic, water, etc....... All those things can and often do vary across county l...
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849. Posted: 18 Oct 2011 15:51 - Properties / Building code requirements for seasonal cabins ontario
You may also want to talk to the planning department. Where I am at (North of Kingston, Ontario) you are able to apply for a minor variance. The planning department also recommended that I make the building look bigger i.e. wrap around deck. That I am finding is the easy hurdle to clear as far as septic I was told by the same department that I may use a composting toilet (Class 1 sewage...
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851. Posted: 6 Oct 2011 14:44 - General Forum / What legally makes a dwelling, a dwelling?
...e it down which is what they make people here do fairly often. You are lucky you did not even need a permit. There are a lot of people in Wisconsin who build garages or sheds for cabins to get out of building permits and size requirements. Our building inspector even suggested that we do that-said he would just look the other way, but we ...
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852. Posted: 6 Oct 2011 14:40 - General Forum / What legally makes a dwelling, a dwelling?
In the county I am planning on building my cabin, these are the exceptions which do not require building permits: A. Any structure designed or constructed solely for the purpose of storin...
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853. Posted: 6 Oct 2011 12:22 - General Forum / What legally makes a dwelling, a dwelling?
...ssuming you may be running into trouble with your county. Hope not. Is your cabin only suppose to be a shed? Your county may have a website you can go to that would define this for you. Did you get a building permit and if so did you have to build a minimum square footage? I would keep it looking as "shed like" as possible until quite a bit of time passes. Do yo...
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854. Posted: 26 Sep 2011 08:20 - Properties / off grid cabin in the Adirondacks
Nope,... the building is my next phase. My experience includes how to find and purchase a lot, dealing with septic perc tests and obtaining a septic permit, dealing with a nasty boundary...
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855. Posted: 25 Sep 2011 00:01 - Member's Projects and Photos / Northern wisconsin cabin
Ah yes...one of the bonuses of being in "lawless Montana" is that we didn't have to have a building permit! It's a long story, but the gist is that we are between 2 jurisdictions and neither the county nor the township has authority to issue one. No inspecti...
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856. Posted: 23 Sep 2011 21:22 - Member's Projects and Photos / Northern wisconsin cabin
...appraiser come out before you need to be done. I'm sure he will have a few pointers to make. Hopefully he will be pretty easy going. Is your land also part of your loan? When we applied for our building permit the inspector came out and looked at our plans (Our drawings we did up ourselves and then we made some changes to after the fact-oops!) He also briefly looked...
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857. Posted: 21 Sep 2011 10:04 - General Forum / Newbies saying Hi from Ontario.
... initially, part-time use and eventually to spend most of our time there. We have been looking at a few acreages in the outback near Timmins and would like to hear from anyone who has experience with building codes, relative to particular zoning in this area. ie: land zoned as "recreational", "wilderness", etc. We understand that building perm...
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858. Posted: 9 Sep 2011 10:12 - Off-Grid Living / Where's a good off grid location?
Tennessee. No income tax. Plenty of water. OK for solar. Some spots OK for wind. Weather is moderate. Land is pretty cheap. Many rural counties have no building codes so no permits required for anything...the Electric company is the one who tries to control your building. If you don't use them, they los...
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859. Posted: 3 Sep 2011 14:19 - Member's Projects and Photos / my cabin in ontario
If you buy in a unincorporated township in Canada there are not as many rules. You will still need building permits however.
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860. Posted: 2 Sep 2011 21:01 - Member's Projects and Photos / Modified Post and Beam 20'x24'
... this project was fun ... I particularly enjoyed the challenge of running electrical wire and lighting. I almost made this cabin completely green ...ie no electricity but running it from an existing building I had built about 15 years ago was a no brainer. I did opt for the compost toilet though as adding to an existing septic permit is pretty costly in our county. The...
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861. Posted: 2 Sep 2011 18:37 - Off Topic / what have u been doing?
Cabingal3, Been living cabin life and building through everyone else's post. Have gotten septic permit and my loving brother and friend have been putting up barbed wire fencing plus 3 of 4 gates. Found lon...
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862. Posted: 31 Aug 2011 14:56 - Member's Projects and Photos / My cabin in Nova Scotia
Love it! Congratulations. I am also the unskilled hauler so can relate and am glad to read that someone appreciates the unskilled. I feel guilty as my husband is building that "all" I am doing is making trips back and forth hauling. We have about a 300' hike only. No loading and unloading a boat. Yikes. I will not complain again. We ...
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863. Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:10 - Off-Grid Living / Where's a good off grid location?
As I'm having a lot of trouble going through Google and deciphering all the legal muckity-muck, I'd like to chime in and ask, how are the counties in Vermont and New Hampshire regarding building permits? Perhaps some of you would know; southeastern Vermont and Southern New Hampshire (as well as Coos County way up north) would be my dream spots to break groun...
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864. Posted: 25 Aug 2011 13:17 - Off Topic / Modern Day Noah's Ark
...yard - but no Ark. "Noah!" He roared, "I'm about to start the rain! Where is the Ark?" "Forgive me, Lord," begged Noah, "but things have changed. I needed a Building Permit. I've been arguing with the Boat Inspector about the need for a sprinkler system. My neighbours claim that I've violated the neighbourhood By-Laws...
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865. Posted: 23 Aug 2011 20:19 - Properties / Are building codes enforced in remote areas of bc?
... was bigger than 10 x 10 (he flew overhead as we are water access only and he looked down) Neighbor said nope, it is as small as can be. We have not been approached yet, but are getting our septic in this year (which you have to do in order to pull a building permit) so that we can pull a permit. if you start building and are caught it ca...
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866. Posted: 21 Aug 2011 11:04 - General Forum / Why dont more people build cabins out of logs when they have logs on property?
... to buy sticks and OSB at home depot. - The way builders think now, is in terms of whats on the shelf at the store, and what will pass 'code' for inspection. If you are planning to get a building permit, be prepared to have many many hours wasted by the building dept. No contractor has that much time allotted for that kind of waste - only the...
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867. Posted: 16 Aug 2011 23:25 - Member's Projects and Photos / My cabin in Nova Scotia
...haring! It sounds like quite an endeavor to get all of your materials up there but so worth it to really get away. The look on your son's face says it all. We managed to get around having a building permit at all where we are (we're in a no-mans-land between the county and the town plat.) We were able to get a septic permit and electrical ...
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868. Posted: 16 Aug 2011 17:36 - General Forum / using a shed as a cabin
.... MtnDon is correct however. The first step is to check with the permitting authority to see what the options are. In PA I have two options- upgrade the shed/cabin to meet the standard residential building codes (which can often be done on new sheds, for additional $'s) or permit the structure as a "recreational use property", which...
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869. Posted: 16 Aug 2011 13:25 - Member's Projects and Photos / My cabin in Nova Scotia
Quoting: hattieNo building codes in Canada? WOW - I didn't know there were any places here without codes. Oh, I'm sure there are codes, but small camps on the offshore islands tend to fly below the...
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870. Posted: 16 Aug 2011 13:00 - General Forum / using a shed as a cabin
Check with the local building permit/inspection department. There will be certain requirements that a cabin or other building meant to be lived in must have.
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