19 Dec
2006
19 Dec
'06
1:38 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 19 Dec 2006 at 18:49, Alexandre Souza wrote:
I expect that's the case in most countries. Doubtless many of us are
sufficiently engineering-minded that we could put up something ourselves (or
at the very least assemble something from a kit), but it's all the rules and
regulations which are the killer (and it least in the UK, can take months too).
Dunno why in USA building is so expensive,
here everything for building
is so cheap :) The labour is expensive, but a shed is nothing hard to do
with help of a friend.
Permits, inspections, codes all make for putting up anything more
than a meter tall very expensive. Out here in Oregon, the cheapest
structure is a "pole barn"; essentially large creosote-soaked poles
sunk into the ground, then usually sheathed and roofed in steel.
Since it's viewed as an agricultural building
In the UK I think you can often get away with building things out of wood
rather than brick / steel as it's then viewed as a temporary structure and so
the necessary planning permission's a lot easier. Obviously that's not likely
to work in the US as major structures are often made of wood anyway :-)
cheers
Jules