Siding, I'm told shingle roof will be cheaper than tin...
It has 110V running from the house to what we're going to knock down (old outbuilding), but as we're going to have to build fresh I'm considering getting 220V feed for possible future car charging or workshop needs. As that would require a 2' deep trench all the way from the house, new service from nearby pole might be the cheaper option.
The camper we're considering for possible future purchase is supposed to be 6'9", but if we want to allow room for a transit/sprinter we'd need the 10'...
Spot on!
Why full foundation?
We're on very dense clay soil. It moves a lot both with soil and moisture. Any slab-built structure in the Champlain Valley is likely to fail. I'm thinking five feet below grade:
That's the amount I'd read online as a likely cost, first contractor doubled that number...
Go to the local commercial construction material supplier or rental company talk to one of the salesman get the names of a reputable mason a framer and a roofer buy the materials yourself manage the workers pay their labor get the shell up and enclosed
You live in a fire land. Take that into consideration.
We spit balled adding to the house in HR until we figured out that you couldn't and it was looking to be around $35k for one that was integrated into the house. Are you thinking at the end of the drive by the existing garage or down the hill? Having to carve out hill?
1. use that "basement" space to create a cistern.
If the mountainside goes up in smoke nothing will save it
, then there will need to be some dirt moving done to lower that area closer to road level. Wife already wants to have some of the dirt moved to the top of our property for the pump track construction.
Dunno why, but that reminds me of the story a coworker told about helping a friend sneak a Bridgeport mill he bought into his garage at home while the wife was out. Friend didn't want to pay for an equipment mover but managed to get it onto a Uhaul trailer and rode the bump stops in his little pickup on the way home. Once at home he realized he had no good way of getting the mill off of the trailer and into the garage, so he tried using a come along to coax it off the trailer. To his great surprise it didn't just scoot off of the trailer, but instead tipped over, fell off the trailer, and augered itself through the garage slab and stuck there. He ended up having to rent a jackhammer and wife came home part way through jackhammering up the slab to extract it. So much for free.
And so much for a working milling machine...Dunno why, but that reminds me of the story a coworker told about helping a friend sneak a Bridgeport mill he bought into his garage at home while the wife was out. Friend didn't want to pay for an equipment mover but managed to get it onto a Uhaul trailer and rode the bump stops in his little pickup on the way home. Once at home he realized he had no good way of getting the mill off of the trailer and into the garage, so he tried using a come along to coax it off the trailer. To his great surprise it didn't just scoot off of the trailer, but instead tipped over, fell off the trailer, and augered itself through the garage slab and stuck there. He ended up having to rent a jackhammer and wife came home part way through jackhammering up the slab to extract it. So much for free.
something tells me the cost of labour and materials is slightly different in Peru vs Vermont...
