Well, after several delays, the new shop build finally got started on Friday, June, 25th.
Because the road behind our house is designated as a 'collector' road (collecting for what, I can't say), we could not build where we (LOML) wanted to. Johnston County has decided that they 'may' want to expand the road to 4 lanes 'someday', so we can't build anything permanent with 100 feet of the center of that road. That works out to about half of our backyard. Unbelievable!
So we move the building closer to our house. Now we have to deal with setbacks from the side property line (5 feet for an 'attached' building, 10 feet for detached), and also keep the building 5 feet from the end of the septic lines. Keeping 10 feet from the property line would have allowed for an 18' wide building. Not enough for our needs. So we have to get Johnston County to clarify what 'attached' actually means.
We got the word that anything the attaches the new building to the existing building means the new building is attached and only requires a 5 foot setback. So we were good to go with a couple of add-ons.
We have a concrete patio behind the house that we don't really like. LOML had already talked about building a deck over the patio, so that is what we are going to do. The deck will be attached to the house and to the new building. There will also be a walkway from the deck to back of the new building where there will be outside stairs to the upper floor.
Anyway, here are a couple of pics of the very early progress. I will attempt to get pictures as the project progresses.
Because the road behind our house is designated as a 'collector' road (collecting for what, I can't say), we could not build where we (LOML) wanted to. Johnston County has decided that they 'may' want to expand the road to 4 lanes 'someday', so we can't build anything permanent with 100 feet of the center of that road. That works out to about half of our backyard. Unbelievable!
So we move the building closer to our house. Now we have to deal with setbacks from the side property line (5 feet for an 'attached' building, 10 feet for detached), and also keep the building 5 feet from the end of the septic lines. Keeping 10 feet from the property line would have allowed for an 18' wide building. Not enough for our needs. So we have to get Johnston County to clarify what 'attached' actually means.
We got the word that anything the attaches the new building to the existing building means the new building is attached and only requires a 5 foot setback. So we were good to go with a couple of add-ons.
We have a concrete patio behind the house that we don't really like. LOML had already talked about building a deck over the patio, so that is what we are going to do. The deck will be attached to the house and to the new building. There will also be a walkway from the deck to back of the new building where there will be outside stairs to the upper floor.
Anyway, here are a couple of pics of the very early progress. I will attempt to get pictures as the project progresses.