Storage Buildings

[Jules Richardson]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 19 Dec 2006 at 18:49, Alexandre Souza wrote:
> 
>>     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. 

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).

 > 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