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Tomr
| | Posted on Saturday, February 3, 2001 - 10:55 am: |     |
Has anyone in town built a deck or shed using Dek-Blocks or similar product (I think Deck So-Port is another product name)? I am curious as to what problems, if any, arose. |
Pastorofmuppets
| | Posted on Monday, February 5, 2001 - 1:56 pm: | |
I've been looking into building a dek-blok deck too.
All the research I've done shows them to be great. I've spoken to a few people who have built decks with them and they love them. No one was local, but they were up in Boston... so the climate was relatively similar.
I went to our Home Depot, and they highly recommended against them saying that the deck will sink... I pushed further, and they gave me a plan for building a 16x20 deck using only 6 blocks (they were using traditional post and beam construction but with the blocks instead of dug in piers) www.deckplans.com reccomends 40 blocks for a deck that size.
Shows the incompetence of our home depot staff.
I can't wait for the spring so I can build it. |
Tom
| | Posted on Monday, February 5, 2001 - 2:15 pm: | |
Does the town building code allow using them vs. piers? When I did my deck a few years ago they gave me very precise specs for how the piers had to be done. |
Tom
| | Posted on Monday, February 5, 2001 - 2:15 pm: | |
As if they're going to dig one out and check... |
Tomr
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 6, 2001 - 10:00 am: | |
Tom,
Did an inspector check the footings & piers before you back filled the holes?
TomR. |
Tom
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 6, 2001 - 10:55 am: | |
no, they left me on my own. |
Pastorofmuppets
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 11:31 am: | |
Supposedly since you don't attach the deck to the house and don't dig anything, it is a "temporary" structure, and if its inder 400 square feet, you don't need a building permit. |
Njjoseph
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 11:48 am: | |
But you will need to notify the town so that you can have your assessment increased and pay higher taxes on it. |
Pastorofmuppets
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 11:59 am: | |
SHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! |
Njjoseph
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 2:01 pm: | |
I won't say anything, Pastor, but we don't need permits to put up a tool shed, either, yet it's taxed! |
Tom
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 3:34 pm: | |
According to the scale that Pastor's central air cost him, an $800 shed from Home Depot ought to add about $8000 to your assessment! |
Tomr
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 3:50 pm: | |
Tom,
Its not quite that bad. I have a 8x9 steel shed, no floor, no foundation, and looking every bit its ten or so years of age. I think you can buy one this size, new, at HD for 400 to 500 dollars. CVI figures it should add more than $1,000, to my assessment.
How did other homeowners get hit for sheds?
TomR. |
Njjoseph
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 3:53 pm: | |
My shed is tiny -- they say it's 32 sq. ft. It was really a playhouse. I didn't verify measurements, but at $5.70 sq. ft. * 2.98 it came to $272 increase to the assessment. |
Peterdsandman
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - 8:38 pm: | |
honesty is not the best policy,and i never said that |
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