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Posted: 7/18/2022 8:39:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If you're really really rural, sure. But the tax man cometh for your shed now because you had to get you some 'views'. If you'd kept your mouth shut, you'd have been able to keep enjoying it. It's just a matter of time now before you see people renting sheds in their yards to people. Then none of will be able to have a shed, at least not without 'inspections' to make sure that there's no income. Fuck, this country is swirling in the toilet. We're not free at all, and it happened at the local level. Saw a couple of camper trailers in urban backyards on local AirBNB. Had to wonder about utility hookups and permits. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 8:43:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Guess how everyone who lives in a rural area knows that you don't? ?? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: And it passed code inspection? Guess how everyone who lives in a rural area knows that you don't? ?? 
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Posted: 7/18/2022 8:44:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 860 square feet isn't bad for a couple, even with a couple small kids. People forget those 1950's single floor ranch homes with 3 bedrooms and one bath that were about that size. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: A Georgia couple gave up a 2,000-square-foot home for an 860-square-foot Home Depot shed. 860 square feet isn't bad for a couple, even with a couple small kids. People forget those 1950's single floor ranch homes with 3 bedrooms and one bath that were about that size. My first single-family house was a 728 square foot post-WW2 2 bedroom. Actually, a nice little house, decently built, not one of the cardboard box houses built by the thousands in the same era. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 8:45:40 AM EDT
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I’m halfway through a shed based cabin build. 350 sqft plus two lofts and 16’ x 12’ deck. Build details are in the outdoor forum. It’s going to cost me right at $80k when complete and I’m doing it very high end. Eg copper surround and commercial spa shower, etc
Like most people said outside city limits there are no building codes here. However, if you want to connect to the grid for electricity, you will have to get an electrical inspection. I’m a couple miles from the road so it’s cheaper for me to do solar than run electrical and give an easement to power company. State wide in TN there is a permit required for wells and septic but several builders seemed to just ignore it. I’m doing rainwater collection and using an incinerator toilet so I don’t need either anyway. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 8:51:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I live in a decent 2000 sq ft house i built from the ground up myself. Served it's role well raising my family. I am here alone now. I've honestly thought the same as you checking out some of those. If i had a 3000 sq ft shop or barn on a new property, i could easily live in a modified HD shed. I like build stuff anyway. My youngest brother built him and his new wife a starter home after he and his first wife divorced. 1100 sq ft. I loved the layout. He picked a great floor plan, but he is a smart fucker. Fairly large living room with adjoining kitchen. Two smaller bedrooms with a shared bath and master with it's own bath. We helped him black it in while he rented an apartment. Also helped him with wiring, rock and plumbing, but he did the balance by himself. I'd love to magically lift that little house and set it on a 50 acre plot. Add a wrap around porch, a new, pretty woman and I'd be happy as a clam.  Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I admit I've walked around one of those and thought it would make a kickass mountain house. I live in a decent 2000 sq ft house i built from the ground up myself. Served it's role well raising my family. I am here alone now. I've honestly thought the same as you checking out some of those. If i had a 3000 sq ft shop or barn on a new property, i could easily live in a modified HD shed. I like build stuff anyway. My youngest brother built him and his new wife a starter home after he and his first wife divorced. 1100 sq ft. I loved the layout. He picked a great floor plan, but he is a smart fucker. Fairly large living room with adjoining kitchen. Two smaller bedrooms with a shared bath and master with it's own bath. We helped him black it in while he rented an apartment. Also helped him with wiring, rock and plumbing, but he did the balance by himself. I'd love to magically lift that little house and set it on a 50 acre plot. Add a wrap around porch, a new, pretty woman and I'd be happy as a clam. Good luck! |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 8:59:19 AM EDT
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How the the House Inspection work for a shed being sold as a home?
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Posted: 7/18/2022 9:03:28 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I like the design but those concrete columns look awful skinny to hold up conex boxes. That design begs for a deck where the steps are. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: #metoo something like this would be perfect. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/ShippingContainerCottage.jpg/800px-ShippingContainerCottage.jpg I like the design but those concrete columns look awful skinny to hold up conex boxes. That design begs for a deck where the steps are. Depends on soil conditions. But, even for decks, current code requires a "mushroom foot" on columns. Cardboard ("sonotube") forms with the foot area are available. Those look like 12" columns which would probably be adequate for the load. I made my own forms for a deck that also had to support part of the house roof. I augured 24" holes 4' deep, then I cut of the bottom of 55 gallon steel drums, cut a 16" hole in the bottom surface, put those pieces upside down in the bottom of the holes, then cut the bottoms out of 16" diameter grease barrels and put those on top of the larger drum pieces. Poured full of concrete, I ended up with 16" columns with 24" diameter "foot". |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 9:10:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So the base cost is $25K. Conservatively, they had to add at least $20K stuff on top of it so really it was at least 45K. In that price range, one can get many campers, buses, class A, class C trailers.. completely done and plug and play. But they rode the real estate wave, which up to a certain point meant everything is going up and appreciating. calling it a shed is just click-bait. Correct about campers, etc. But hard to get anything that is going to be livable in freezing temperature areas. Easier to insulate a shed/house. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 9:11:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: How the the House Inspection work for a shed being sold as a home? You don't *have* to have a home inspection to sell a home. If you're borrowing a lender might require one but the lender's appraiser would notice any major problems that would imperil the loan. If you're not borrowing, it's definitely not required. Just as long as you go into the deal with full knowledge of the risks. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 9:16:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That's the biggest shed I ever saw. It's literally the size of a house. Yeah, I just constructed a 750ish sq foot cabin. It's quite large. Much larger than I had in my head planning it out. That's a HUGE "shed". |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 9:20:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: sir, the fugitive yoga teacher is 5'8" and therefore not little. 5'8" is a bit short for me but we'll make it work somehow. i work with a shitload of tiny girls in that 5'nothing to 5'3.5" range and they hate tall, sexy women.  Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Big piece of property, lil shed, lil tight ass yoga instructor  5'8" is a bit short for me but we'll make it work somehow. i work with a shitload of tiny girls in that 5'nothing to 5'3.5" range and they hate tall, sexy women. 5'8" is normal sized, not tall. 5'10" and up is tall women.
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Posted: 7/18/2022 9:21:56 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: How the the House Inspection work for a shed being sold as a home? IMO, the "inspection" game has been promoted by realtors to distance themselves from any possible comebacks from buyers. And the inspectors themselves have no liability for anything they might miss. As another poster said. inspection is not mandatory. If one doesn't know jack about building construction, get your BIL's cousin the electrician/plumber to do a walk through. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 9:27:36 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Smart move...I've looked into these. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/35509/Screenshot_20220124-212007_Samsung_Inter-2456033.JPG Face it south, looks like it would fit about 1KW of solar on the first roof. Put a small battery bank in a box on the porch, controllers and inverter inside. Downside- those frickin Mansard roofs... I get it, good utilization of space, but they are ugliest frickin roof styles! |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 9:46:39 AM EDT
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Pretty neat.
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Posted: 7/18/2022 9:48:16 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Face it south, looks like it would fit about 1KW of solar on the first roof. Put a small battery bank in a box on the porch, controllers and inverter inside. Downside- those frickin Mansard roofs... I get it, good utilization of space, but they are ugliest frickin roof styles! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Smart move...I've looked into these. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/35509/Screenshot_20220124-212007_Samsung_Inter-2456033.JPG Face it south, looks like it would fit about 1KW of solar on the first roof. Put a small battery bank in a box on the porch, controllers and inverter inside. Downside- those frickin Mansard roofs... I get it, good utilization of space, but they are ugliest frickin roof styles! Agreed, they're ugly. OK on a real barn but for a "house" with living space, may just as well have vertical walls and a conventional gable roof. Plus, the possibility of more windows. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 9:54:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah. People are great for getting in debt, but usually suck at getting out. Not sure why this story would get anything other than a...  I swear, some folks would read a story about a former drunk who'd been sober for 10 years and call him a "quitter". 
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Posted: 7/18/2022 9:58:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My first single-family house was a 728 square foot post-WW2 2 bedroom. Actually, a nice little house, decently built, not one of the cardboard box houses built by the thousands in the same era. opened to a small room in the center that had an oil heater. Near the ceiling were openings that allowed the heat to flow to the other rooms. The house was built like a tank. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 9:59:47 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And it passed code inspection? aint no code inspection out in the sticks, bub |
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Posted: 7/19/2022 11:57:20 AM EDT
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Curious. I looked on Tuff Shed's website, and HD. Could not find the 2-story "shed" mentioned in the OP. Anybody have a link?
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Posted: 7/19/2022 12:13:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: How the the House Inspection work for a shed being sold as a home? |
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