The French will be pissed if they find out what you did to their drain.
I had a couple little things in my house the inspector never mentioned. One was an electric line on the bottom of joists instead of through drilled holes.
She'd better have Handyman Joe on speed dial too. I'm not saying there aren't local people capable of building a shed out of sticks but I've seen some real abortions too.
The company that did the work? I would expect you'd need one for that many places today, like here in NJ.
Makes sense here. I can see them becoming airborne in a storm.
Why would AC condensate into a french drain be a problem, any more than dumping it on the ground? It's your drain, I would guess (never heard of a community french drain).
It is collective, bureaucratic thinking that leads to rules like this.
I had a new well dug two years ago and the current rule required the well head to extend a foot above the ground. My old well was maybe 2 inches. The new rule was to prevent ground storm water from entering the well. If you saw my yard you would know that is impossible but does not matter. Rules are rules. I have it covered with a fake rock.
A friend was forced to connect to town water, then cap his well. He couldn't even use it for irrigation.
That is weird.
I know near here when the water company put in a well and dropped the aquifer affecting nearby homeowner wells that they had to run water lines to them.
When a sewer line goes past your property you have to pay for it but do not have to use it.
That's a money thing. They want to bill sewer and water.
We had a similar issue at work. We negotiated a flat fee for water above the meter but it still saved us thousands by drilling a well.
+1 on the shingles - and 3/8" roof decking. I just put 5/8" on over the 3/8 before re-shingling my 15x15 roof on 10X10 shed
I'd be waiting a year for the prices to drop or get a factory built shed (either metal or resin)
End to end it was a few weeks for each part. A lot of that time was just watching concrete cure ;-) There are actually 2 sheds there with a block wall between them. I built the first one and by the time I was done I was sorry I didn't make it bigger. My wife called me and asked if I was ready for some concrete. She had a yard or two left over. By the time the truck got there I had the pad area leveled and the Latinos her concrete guy brought dug out the footers. I dropped the steel in and they dumped in the concrete. That was about 15-20 minutes. The doors were free so I used them. They are steel fire doors so they are pretty tough. I put the pavers on later.
The 2 shed idea is actually handy because one I keep locked, the other is unlocked. Both are dry tho.
That is the issue. They don't care so much that your shed gets destroyed, they just don't want it in your neighbor's living room.
They are all taller than that here. I am not sure what the code is but
16-18" seems to be the norm.
They are going to make us hook up when it gets here. Fortunately the survey they did about river contamination said our neighborhood was of minimal concern so I might not live long enough to see it coming here. The best guess is it will be $40k-$50k by the time you pay your plumber and pay for the installation at the street, lift stations, force mains and such. They say some of that will be covered by "clean water" grants and city funds tho. It might be 5 years before they actually get the first SFR lot connected but the two trailer parks will go faster since they already have pipe in the ground to a central treatment plant and they are close to an existing force main. We are at the end of a 1 mile dead end street with nothing there yet but water, still a half mile from me.
They said it was a health thing. Well water and town water couldn't enter the structure. Since the well was already plumed in, it all had to go.
In my previous house I was charged for sewage proportional to water usage. Seems reasonable until the irrigation system comes on. I could have separated the meters, for about $10,000.
The city ran everything from the water to the electric system. At least we didn't lose water or sewer service once a week.
That's BS, though the two systems should not be tied together. We had a system in the shop that had a couple of valves to prevent interconnection.
Sewer bill is based on water use and they want to get paid.
I can not understand why there is a seperate sewer and water bill in the city for the homes. I think the sewer is some sort of a percentage of the water as the sewer is not measured. Now if there is a seperate water meter for watering the grass and such, I would understand.
Mr. Green : Let me get this straight - you get filtered & purified drinking water pumped to your home - and you use it to water the lawn ?
Mr. Sprae : Yup.
Mr. Green : Does the lawn feed you or your livestock ?
Mr. Sprae : Nope. It never gets long because I mow it so often and besides, I spray lots of chemicals on it. Might not be healthy to eat.
Mr. Green : So you spend hours every week, on your stinky noisy machine, burning fossil fuel, spraying chemicals on the lovely lawn flowers - which the bees could put to good use .. ? This lawn must be very important to you. What does that sign over there say ?
Mr. Sprae : Keep off the grass.
John T. who always makes sure that some of his pretty yellow lawn flowers go-to-seed - so he can share their beauty with all his neighbours.
Budgets? In some towns they are run separately and depends on the funds from the bills for funding operations.
When I lived in CT the sewer bill was about 25% of the water bill. Here in FL I pay more for sewer than I do for water.
Last month water: $7.30 Last month sewer: $16.10 Both billed at 3200 gallons
In addition to a fix rate before us of $9.45 and $22.54
One reason I think, it is flat here and it takes a lot of power to pump everything to the treatment plant.
The best deal on the same bill is twice a week trash pickup for $14.33.
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