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Basement Separate from Rest of House: To build interior access?
Comments (3)My parents house used to have basement access through the garage only. Reminds me of a renovated home I was in. Once in the beautifully redone basement, including a chef's kitchen (the owner was a chef) stairs led up to a 20x20 family room with a wall of glass doors to the backyard. But I couldn't figure out where the room was. Till I realized it was originally the double garage, which on the outside still had double doors to the front. The conversion violated zoning, so was camouflaged....See MorePole building home vs traditional stick build
Comments (9)Wood stuck in the dirt won’t meet the building codes. Turn that into a pier and beam foundation or slab that actually will pass inspection for a home, and you add 30K-60K. 2x4 on 24” center with no tiedown straps or other bracing, won’t meet code requirements. Make that into 2x6, with proper bracing and strapping, and add 10-15K. $49 box store windows that have no double glazing and meet no standards any where turns into a 20K-40K upgrade to get even the minimum required glazing specs. Spray on adhesive cellulose at a R-5 won’t meet any insulation requirements anywhere in the US. Add 15-40K. Chicken sheds don’t require but a couple of hanging protected fixtures. An actual house requires a complete modern electrical plan. And lots of lights. Add 15-50K. Chicken sheds don’t have plumbing, unless it’s a rudimentary cold water supply only. Add another 45-75K, as this includes waste removal also. A “pole barn” is nothing but an expensive shed and an even more expensive house by the time you add all the things that a house absolutely requires. People who live in areas where they decide that they can skip doing health and safety code requirements are just paying with different costs than building costs. They choose to pay part of the costs with the health, safety, and comfort, of their family instead of money. Imagine growing up in a building that’s freezing and damp in the winter, with bits of breezes coming in through the zero air sealed and properly insulated windows and building. That’s your kids paying for a non code compliant building....See MoreBuilding a handicapped accessible home
Comments (71)@mtpo Have you considered attaching your ramp to the back door instead of the garage steps? I empathize with this all. I have a fab little house with all budget-friendly concepts for being accessible, but the doors did end up quite a bit off the ground: like 4 steps worth. I would have had to cope with this if I had been able to afford an attached carport, so I know it's tricky to try and do it with steps, let alone a ramp. In my case, though, the mistake was partly mine. The builder and I went out to my raw lot and decided where to put the house (imagine being able to do this!), a few feet here, a few feet there, a little more angled to the south, a little more privacy for my bedroom window, the most exposure for the solar panels on my roof..... The two of us forgot that the doors would be quite a bit above ground because of a slope in the lot. And then, I made it worse because after we measured everything and laid it out, I asked if he could please move the whole house over 2 feet. I wouldn't have swapped that experience for the world, though. And out of the goodness of his heart, the builder himself made me a most magnificent set of front steps, wide and with sturdy rails. And when I said how much I appreciated him, he did the back stairs, too! At some point, I will get one of those nifty metal dock-ramps. ******* Aha! This is the company that builds those metal ramps: https://www.highcountryaluminum.com...See MoreBest access to a huge attic in new build?
Comments (25)I doubt you'd have enough clearance to continue the stairs with another half-landing to access the attic - and honestly it would most likely be seasonal and long-term storage where I wouldn't personally justify the cost of said stairs (or trade-off of light/looks) for the access I think you're best off with an oversized pull-down folding ladder in the hall. Could always get creative in hiding it, that's a different story Depending on the truss spacing, I've seen some pretty sweet (but residential code gray-area) platform lifts powered by electric hoists. Assumption is you'd have the pull-down ladder for you, then you'd set totes/boxes on the hoist platform. Platform is floating on cables, hoist/pulley system braces among multiple trusses. This isn't something someone licensed would design for you, it's more for someone that "knows enough" to be able to over engineer it. But again it gets back to how much you'd really use the storage space if it's worth it... IMO true attic storage space sucks to use, the temperature are hard on what you store up there, and these days it only makes sense if you could sneak the ladder into the garage or a closet. So I'd stick to decluttering, using basement, or garage rafter/attic for this kind of storage...See Moresweet.reverie
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