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812. Posted: 13 Jun 2012 23:22 - Properties / Building a cabin in ontario (permits and fees)
Hi everyone and thanks so much to the guy who started/runs this site. I need advice. I have just under 3 acres in the Kawartha area in Ontario. I checked the building codes and I wanted to do the 107 sq feet or under thing BUT it says you don't need a permit for anything that size UNLESS one is living in it then you do! After...
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813. Posted: 13 Jun 2012 21:32 - Member's Projects and Photos / Central Wisconsin Cabin Build
...ver the top of it. When the inspector came to sign offon it he told me that I built the 2nd best outouse in the county, only beat out by one that had a chadelier in it! Now I had the sanitary ermit which meant I could approach the county to get a building permit. I arrived at the court house thinking I could just go in and pay the fee and they would give me a ...
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814. Posted: 11 Jun 2012 10:02 - Properties / Building a cabin in ontario (permits and fees)
I have found some more info about building in unorganized townships. The info comes from a realtor in the Port Loring area so i am not sure if it applies to other unorganized areas or just that one. There are no minimum ...
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815. Posted: 10 Jun 2012 20:42 - Properties / Mission Impossible: Land in upstate NY near public transportation (no car).
...r car insurance, which would increase, but NOT guarantee, our chances of getting a land with a small cabin. So I have these questions now, maybe you guys know the answer: - Can land with no official building (with small cabin instead) have an official address? Does one have to have a building permit to get address? If I had an address there, I could regi...
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816. Posted: 10 Jun 2012 19:44 - Properties / Avoid building permit?
just to let you know I live in Ontario and i have gotten building permits for my families projects and there quite reasonable. They basically pay for a representative from the local government (usually a former contractor) to come ...
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817. Posted: 10 Jun 2012 15:04 - Properties / Mission Impossible: Land in upstate NY near public transportation (no car).
...ar insurance, which would increase, but NOT guarantee, our chances of getting a land with a small cabin. So I have these questions now, maybe you guys know the answer: - Can land with no official building (with small cabin instead) have an official address? Does one have to have a building permit to get address? If I had an address there, I could regi...
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818. Posted: 7 Jun 2012 17:05 - Member's Projects and Photos / My build in Nova Scotia
...e composting toilet. plans are to put in a sink once I have a water storage container installed. The cabin was built to code, a necessity as the power company wouldn't hook up power without a building permit. The main beams are 3 ply pt 2x12's and the floor joists are 2x10. Over built but hopefully it won't go anywhere. In order to save money I used r...
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819. Posted: 29 May 2012 22:10 - General Forum / Anyone Going to thier Cabin this weekend?????
LOL!!! That was the good ol days when you could do more and nobody cared! I think that now that we have had our final inspection with the building inspector nobody much will care...at least that is what I hope! In our county(Douglas) all vacant land is looked at every year and appraised physically by the assessor. They are so d...
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820. Posted: 27 May 2012 15:20 - Member's Projects and Photos / 12x8 bunkie progress
I just happened to be browsing websites and links to suggestions for building a small bunkie, hopefully with a modest screened porch attached. I have a nice home on a small pond in Plymouth, MA with an extra lot that I'll be applying to build the bunkie o...
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821. Posted: 23 May 2012 16:56 - Properties / relaxed building codes (notheren NH, Maine or VT)
..."wink") without having to obtain a permit. My town also allows up to 720 sq ft "recreation" camp, for occasional use only, which does require a permit but does not have to meet all the residential building codes. BUT, the camp would require septic and well...so, I am going the no permit "shed" route...nobody ...
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822. Posted: 17 May 2012 10:54 - Properties / cabin build michigan questions
Quoting: yuanggitssaccan the township do anything if they find my cabin such as tare it down? Local zoning and building departments usually have the right to make the local rules more restrictive than the rules laid down at the state level. They can not make the local rules more relaxed than those ado...
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823. Posted: 17 May 2012 07:14 - Properties / cabin build michigan questions
...039;m in kalkaska and zoned recreational forest. I can build less than 500sqft as long as its called a hunting cabin and I do not use it more than 120 days per year. Call your zoning dept and not the building dept. MI new building code says you can build any out structure up to 120sqft without a permit and my zoning said for them it is 200sqft. The ...
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824. Posted: 15 May 2012 20:37 - Cabin Construction / What NOT To Do!
This is why they invented building permits (that and tax increases)
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825. Posted: 15 May 2012 14:28 - Cabin Construction / Take three! (foundation)
Have you run that by the building department? I recall from a different thread you had talked with them. It doesn't matter what anyone here thinks if there is a permit department and inspectors ...
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826. Posted: 14 May 2012 12:43 - Properties / what pisses me off!!
building permits and codes date back to the old slums of the industrial revolution. slumlords put up any multi family slums to make money and had no concern for safety. the c...
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827. Posted: 9 May 2012 18:45 - Cabin Construction / Ok, so on to plan D.
Just got off the phone with the building inspector, and it's not good news. Whatever we put up (even a yurt) requires a permit, and has to be attached to the foundation and the ground. We can either ...
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828. Posted: 9 May 2012 15:48 - Cabin Construction / Ok, so on to plan D.
...x20 with a porch, delivered, for about $3500. That's just a shell, so we'd need to unsulate and finish the interior ourselves, but that's not a big deal. The problem is with the building permit. For one thing, we have already determined that we are not going to be able to put in a poured foundation, so we're sticking with a gravel pad for whate...
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829. Posted: 3 May 2012 12:01 - General Forum / Giving up?
To Optimistic, There are SO MANY reasons in favor of buying or building your own Dwelling on wheels. First, it is CHEAPER. No real estate taxes on a mobile. Minimal exposure to building codes, permits and worst of al...
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830. Posted: 26 Apr 2012 14:44 - Cabin Construction / Foundation help
...nearly as much as some folks think. If piers must be used I like 4 feet in the ground for every foot above ground. Piers should have a concrete footing; normal size is 16x16x8. With a lightly loaded building smaller footings can be used, especially when the number of piers is increased, as then the load is spread out more. Perhaps another option should be explored; pole buildin...
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831. Posted: 22 Apr 2012 01:44 - Member's Projects and Photos / Newbie Planning A 16x20 Building
No septic necessary, that's a big advantage for you. In my jurisdiction anything over 120 sq feet built as a dwelling needs both building permit & septic approval. Anything not built in compliance and complained of by a disgruntled "neighbor" would be subject to citation and/or demolition...
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832. Posted: 19 Apr 2012 09:26 - Properties / On the verge of buying land!
Opti... regarding your outhouse... are you able to use a traditional "outhouse" (basically a hole in the ground with a little building over it, that is never pumped out.)? Or are you required to use a tank- what is then known as a "vault privy" (same concept, but a concrete box, which does require pumping...
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833. Posted: 17 Apr 2012 18:56 - General Forum / Don't you hate delays?
My permits are good as the one from the DEC for the road work is being completed in a couple of weeks... I wont get a building permit until just before the contruction starts... as for as far as a loan, I'm trying to pay for this minus interest fees and such as it is mu...
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834. Posted: 17 Apr 2012 03:17 - General Forum / Don't you hate delays?
...r the road in which is approximately 1/3 mile, and it crosses a small brook runoff which is quite soft ground, I had to hire someone to put my road in and make it passable by truck. Without the road, building supplies can not make it back there. Not even by ATV and trailer due to the brook runoff that I need to cross. So I put the job out to bids and got three, very close bids for the wor...
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835. Posted: 16 Apr 2012 19:51 - Properties / Avoid building permit?
would like to build an 8x131/2 foot cabin .Its just under 107 square ft or 10 meter square. Have 9 acres of Ag3 zoned property. The building code states under 107sqft is excluded from the code .the permit office states that any building requires a permit yet says does no...
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836. Posted: 14 Apr 2012 17:18 - Properties / Avoid building permit?
... of property. Dollar $$ signs in their eyes. What about the value of life. As an Animal although human, we still have Natural Rights to a Dwelling. If you don't like what I'm building, then you can pay to have it built your way, otherwise "Shut Up and get over it". I'm building an A-Frame Cabin on 16.7 acres this summer. Driveway ...
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837. Posted: 2 Apr 2012 21:14 - General Forum / I'm starting to lose faith (shipping container as cabin)
...ong> I think it makes some sense to know what is okay and what is not okay. Then try to accommodate the rules as best as can be done. I have a friend who built a shop/garage a few years back. He had a permit for the building but neglected to get an electrical permit. he did the wiring himself. When the officials discovered that, the electrical inspector ...
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838. Posted: 2 Apr 2012 13:56 - Properties / Small Cabin Friendly Building Departments in Northern California?
... very nit picking over the details. Lots of photographs could help or it could annoy them. They probably would have the authority to cut off electric and/or water if a stipulation of getting either is that you have a building permit. That is relatively common. Add in that CA has some of the most stringent building rules if the location is in a wildfire pr...
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839. Posted: 1 Apr 2012 19:57 - Cabin Construction / Need Advice Small Cabin v.s. Trailer/Bus
...n 200 square feet. (Used to be 120 sq ft but they changed it this year.) But the intent is for it to be storgae, or a playhouse.... Here's a quote from the regs/application... "One story detached accessory buildings used as tool and storage sheds, playhouses, and similar uses, provided the floor area does not exceed 200 square feet." Also check what any local zoning re...
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840. Posted: 27 Mar 2012 21:17 - Properties / Housing laws?
In NM the figure for a no permit building is 120 sq ft set by the state. Local governments usually follow along. The wording is "One story detached accessory buildings used as tool and ...
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