Fabric shelters...

[chucker]

Buy a sawmill they said, cut your own wood they said, build whatever you want they said, it'll pay for itself they said. Okay I bought the dang sawmill now where do I buy the time to use it to mill the lumber to build the pole shed?
$5000 won't get you too far on a building big enough to cover an RV. Unless you could do a lean too on an existing building. Around here the darn permits, drawings, engineering costs are getting crazy. Someday the Building Inspector is going to drive in my laneway and I'm gonna have a red face. I may have built and changed a few things with no permits. ( shhhh 24x 56' shop)

just cut the middle out of his tape measure when he's not looking while he slams down a few cold one's offered to him by you on movie camera?? LOL

 

[alleyyooper]

"Around here the darn permits, drawings, engineering costs are getting crazy."

Pretty much says it all in my area of Michigan. That is why people are going to the fabric shelters, those metal car port thingies.
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Arrow-St...MIhbLX9ZX_1gIVx1uGCh3MTQpvEAYYBCABEgIzAPD_BwE

You don't need a permint for them yet in this area but I expect some day they will want you to get a permint and add a bunch of crap on so even those are not going to get put up.

Last building I did I nearly had to get a lawyer to sue the county who I felt was trying to prevent me from building.
Decided I would never ask or buy a permint again. Just pay a fine if they find it, hate goggle earth for that reason.

For 5000.00 I could built a pole barn narrow but high enough for a RV roof to fit into.

Al

 

[rarefish383]

I'm watching this because my buddy has all the frame work. He has a rental house that had a big in ground pool. The real estate company told him to back fill it, the liability is too great for a rental. I'd say the area covered is at least 20X40. The pool was heated and used year round. What ever top was on it lasted for a number of years. If I had of been him, I'd have left the cover up, back filled and made a green house out of it. Anyway, he said I could have all the frame, and I wanted something cheap for my tractor in WV, Joe.

 

[svk]

"Around here the darn permits, drawings, engineering costs are getting crazy."

Pretty much says it all in my area of Michigan. That is why people are going to the fabric shelters, those metal car port thingies.
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Arrow-Storage-Products-12-ft-x-20-ft-x-7-ft-White-Roof-Steel-Carport-CPH122007/300955287?cm_mmc=Shopping|THD|google|D29B+Bath+Vanities&mid=s9JnGEXSz|dc_mtid_8903syd25186_pcrid_41293307497_pkw__pmt__product_300955287_slid_&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhbLX9ZX_1gIVx1uGCh3MTQpvEAYYBCABEgIzAPD_BwE

You don't need a permint for them yet in this area but I expect some day they will want you to get a permint and add a bunch of crap on so even those are not going to get put up.

Last building I did I nearly had to get a lawyer to sue the county who I felt was trying to prevent me from building.
Decided I would never ask or buy a permint again. Just pay a fine if they find it, hate goggle earth for that reason.

For 5000.00 I could built a pole barn narrow but high enough for a RV roof to fit into.

Al

From what I hear the permits are not all that difficult around here unless you want a variance near a lake and there's no rhyme or reason as to who they approve. The only new construction I've done was my storage shed and that was very easy to obtain. When I enclosed the lean to on our cabin into additional cabin space they were very easy as well.

Lots of folks do "remodeling" around here. IE turn a falling down woodshed into a nice building. Just have to keep one existing wall in place and if you were inspected you would need to show them the old studs and/or siding from the wall. Since the county is all about increasing their tax bases, they usually don't care about remodeling projects but they show no mercy when the next assessment comes out.