Michael A. Terrell wrote:
"Steve W." wrote:
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
wrote:
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 20:35:07 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:
wrote:
Too bad I'm not closer, I don't accomplish a whole lot some days
either, but I'd be game to help.
I apprecieate the, but I'm about 1.7 hours north Orlando. If I
didn't think so little of lotteries, I could go buy that winning
powerball ticket, I guess. Of course I'd have more money than I knew
what to do with. ;-)
Just keep on the way you are and you'll have more money than if you
buy the tickets.
Tickets? I haven't bought one in 20 years 
One of the local scrap yards has 3 buildings made from shipping containers.
They poured a large pad. Set one container on each side, put regular
roof trusses up (steel in one wood in the other two).
Sheathed them in ply and installed metal roofing and siding. Two are
enclosed with garage doors on the end the steel one is open on both ends.
I was tossing around the idea of three 40 footers U shaped on a 6" slab
with steel trusses. Figured if you put anchors in the ground, welded the
containers to those, then welded the trusses in place it would take some
serious wind to move it.
The problem is zoning. The county has a lot of restrictions on what
can be built & used. I would also have to dig up and move a lot of
underground wiring, as well. I wanted to just add a 40' next to the
garage, and found that the drain field was in the way. No building can
be closer to the road than the house under current regulations, and I
have a 12' x 12' laundry building that was the original pump house. Any
major damage, and I won't be allowed to replace it. Four other
buildings are too close to the property lines now, but not when they
were built. I'd like to replace all the beams & put up new metal, then
have it foamed with that UV resistant coating but can't afford it on my
pension. I'll have to see if I can path the holes with scrap steel and
splice the damaged beams for now. Gunner suggested roll roofing but it
isn't legal, because it can't meet hurricane requirements. If the edge
comes up, the entire roof can peel off. Oh well, it looks like I have a
use for _all_ of those heavy old PC cases that I had saved for sheet
steel. The old maxi towers are almost three feet tall.
Where is the dividing line between repair/replace?
In my area you can get a permit to do "renovations" which allows you to
tear down everything BUT one corner post and minimum of 10 square feet
of wall.
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Steve W.