Recent content by MaverickH1

Bump, hoping for replies. Anybody have feedback on these types of buildings or the companies that put them up? I have a lot of projects I need to get started on. An old wooden boat, restoration of a 1982 Chevrolet K20 Suburban into our modern family vehicle, surplus Humvee modifications, etc. :D

Looking at getting one of the cheap metal buildings on our property in Virginia, just wanted to see if anyone had any experience with some of these companies. They seem like a dime a dozen and at good prices, but I'm worried I'm not seeing all the requirements or there isn't much accountability...

I plugged the foundation drain and empty it every other day, not much rain and not much water coming out. I plugged one of the 6 (from memory) lines that goes to the drain field. Haven't emptied it yet because I don't want piss water all over me at the moment. The septic system is rated for...

I'm having a hard time getting a straight answer out of people, but WHY is it too close to the building? Drain pipes all come out of buildings. Drain pipes run along side of buildings all the time. Why is this special? Is a different kind of pipe used while alongside the building that has...

More digging this weekend revealed that there were 4 pipes all side by side here. 1 white, 3 were light green. All thin walled 4" PVC. 2 were broken, so I ended up cutting them and putting a temporary cap on them to keep them sealed. The plan is to pull them off and drain the system every...

Image of the septic drawing. The orange piece of paper is where the workshop was going to go, 10' to the left of the theoretical location of the distribution box.

I'll try to add a picture to this post with my phone. But it looks like this pipe might go as much as 18' past the building column and make a right turn before it turns into perforated pipe for the drain field. So the drain field does still appear to be at least 10' away from the building...

If I trust the drawing, there are 6 lines from the distribution box. Two of them are side by side going across the column. Using the picture above, the second line is just to the right of the yellow measuring tape on the ground. I'm thinking of capping it and burying it until the inspection...

I'm hoping that's all we need. The health department seemed to believe any pipe had to be 10' away from any structure. But not finding anything in code about it, I thought that maybe he was just saying 10' because that's what they want the major components' setback to be from buildings. So...

Hello all. My wife and I are building a 40'x52' shop all by ourselves. Before digging we mapped out the septic system and laid the building out so it would be at least 10' away from the septic system per the requests of the local health department. The septic system was on the right side of...

Hit my first big road block after working hard to clear the 40'x52' space myself. A lot of dirt moving, and a lot of tree cutting and stump digging. I finally called in the artillery this weekend to hammer out the big rock on the back of the building site, renting a large backhoe with...

I think I'll have to find ways to keep it useful for a little while and we'll just keep it around. I might also do some little contract work around town to help pay it off quicker.

In our case, we have a lot of backhoe work. We have a deep crater in the land between our driveway and where the workshop will go. To use relative elevations, our driveway is at 0 elevation. The workshop is at -5', and the crater is -8'. I have to fill everything between the driveway and the...

The building delivery is about 5 weeks away. My wife and I were both a little worried about all of the equipment rentals that we're anticipating. The biggest one being a 2 month rental for a backhoe, estimated cost of $4,000 just for that rental. Somehow, I convinced her with all the other...

Welcome aboard, WJW. Hopefully you can learn from my mistakes. :D For an update: I'm in the permitting process now, and I'm trying to put the final touches on a foundation design to submit to them. I purchased the book "Foundation and Anchor Design Guide for Metal Building Systems" in...