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The tree in the pic had already been removed. Now the grass had to go and the area where the building will/was supposed to go needs to be leveled and tamped and covered in gravel.
The right tool makes easy work of that. They left this puppy parked in the yard over the weekend. My buddy saw it yesterday and wants to borrow it. We could probably get it started, but he lives 7 miles away and that thing isn't exactly road worthy, so here it sits.
There's the site--ready to go! The electrical conduit is buried with the wire in it and all I needed at this point was the building permit to make setting the garage legal.
I got a call from the code enforcement officer on Thursday morning. The specifications that the manufacturer faxed to him weren't up to code. He was going to call the guy and straighten it out.
And then came Murphy.....
Garages in New York State must have non-combustible floors at a slope--too bad they spent half a day getting the site level, but that's a minor point. The building that's ordered has wood on the floor and that won't pass code under any conditions.
The letter I received this morning stating the above was cc-ed to the contractor and the garage guy, so all I have to do is wait for one of them to make the first move. The best thing to do at this point would be to get a refund of the deposit on the building and make a new plan. The guy is not going to go for that very easily, of course, since he'll be stuck with the thing on his lot.
My buddy suggested removing the floor and setting the building on a block foundation, but hey! I paid for a garage and I want one that is well-built, not altered to "become" a legal garage.
So, this project will drag on into a fourth month and we now have no place to park the truck out of the elements since the old carport has been framed and converted into my new shed!
Thanks Murphy--go suck a... well, never mind that....
Stay cool if yer in the south and stay warm if you're in the north. We're getting overnight temps in the 40s already.
evidently there's more rules to put up a garage over that way than there are rules in the bible