Victoria Real Estate Agency Home Sale Listings

Before Buying a Steel Garage Kit - Know The Required Permitting Plan Requirements

The popularity of the steel garage kit is increasing. People appreciate the easy maintenance of steel. Steel buildings do not have to be painted and maintained like wood structures, and insects don't eat steel. Also, the fire-resistant properties of steel over wood are becoming ever so important in wildland urban interface communities.

With this popularity comes a growing internet availability of garage kits. You can find companies across the internet offering various types and styles of garage kits. You can find steel building kits, carport kits, garage kits, and even home kits. But with the ease and availability of these buildings, there are some important facts that you should understand before making your purchase. One such item is what you will need in regard to required plans for permitting.

As with traditional wood structures, you will need to get building permits from your local permitting agency (most likely - depending upon the size and type of your structure). Here is where you need to have done your homework. Before ordering your building kit, speak with your local permitting agency to find out what types of plans you will need. Typically, you will need three sets of plans. You will need engineered building plans (with structural calculations), concrete / foundation plans and a site plan.

When making a building kit purchase, companies often require you to put down a deposit (but you shouldn't, and I'll touch on that later in this article). Your deposit will typically include engineered plans for your building (If obtaining a permit, engineered plans with all structural calculations are usually required for permitting purposes). Buyers are often surprised to find that the included engineered building plans do not include concrete / foundation plan or the site plan. Of course, this means the included structural calculations are pretty much irrelevant and unusable since the concrete / foundation plan is required in order to properly compute the structural calculations!

This also means a building kit buyer will have to find a local engineer to prepare the concrete / foundation plan for them. This can cost an additional $500-$2000 in addition to the original building cost. Let's add this cost to the cost of obtaining correct structural calculations after the fact.

You will also probably need a site plan. Speak with your permitting agency to determine exactly what they require. The specifications will probably differ between a project classified as commercial or as residential. If you project is classified as commercial, there will probably be more requirements needed from you than there would be if the project is classified as residential.

In summary, before you purchase a steel building kit I recommend you take the following steps:

1.Before making your purchase, speak with your local permitting agency to find out what types of plans you will need.

2.As you shop building kits vendors, you will find some reputable companies that will include the concrete / foundation plan with the building kit price. Make sure to specifically ask them about this!

3.When you find a supplier that will supply both the engineered building plans AND the concrete / foundation plans, be prepared to supply some basic information (gathered from your permitting agency). This information will be items like required footer depth, depth of frost line, etc.

4.Some permitting agencies will allow hand-drawn site plans. Find out the specific local requirements. Site plans will have to be obtained locally.

5.Some building kit suppliers will ask you to make a deposit on your building so that they can supply your plans and you get a permit. DON'T do this, unless you are very comfortable with whomever you're dealing with. A reputable supplier will not ask for a deposit, but will only ask you to buy the plans first (about $500 to $700). The problem with putting a deposit down is that there are too many variables that can happen that can make the building project fall through. If this happens, then you can be out a sizable amount of money.

For more information on important items to consider before making your Steel Garage Kit purchase, visit http://www.absoluterv.com/Garage_Kits.htm. You can even get free garage kit pricing here.

MORE ARTICLES:

Know All About Home Purchase Loan
Nowadays there are different types of loans available in the market and home purchase loan is one of them. If you want to buy your dream place then this financing can really help you. Buying a new house is a major life change. This is a place where you spend most of your time. Your family will live there; your children will grow up. The greatest advantage to buying this place is the tremendous satisfaction and pride. Your house reflects your personality; the way it is decorated, furnished, improved upon, and taken care of tells guests about you. Owning a house gives clout, both economic and political, and as soon as you buy a new place you have credit, even if you had no credit rating before.

Do Not Buy a TV, Use Your PC!
If you have never bothered to buy a TV and are considering purchasing one so that you can get some satellite channels, you might want to reconsider. Not that TVs are overrated, but if you already have a PC and a high speed internet connection, then you already have the equipment to watch some great satellite TV. The technology that will enable you to do this is called IP TV or internet TV. Simply put, you get streamed video feeds directly to your PC over the internet and you watch TV on your PC.

Austin Real Estate: A New Way to Search for Your Next Home
Local real estate firm places emphasis on school district home searches for Families with School Age Children

Whiter Teeth For The Holidays: Dentist.Net’s Pre Holiday Sale Going On Now

Baker's Racks: Great Reasons To Purchase One Online
There are just some things that probably should not be purchased online?shoes, for instance. Sure, online shopping will save you some money on a pair of shoes but it will probably be more frustrating than its worth. By the time you get a pair that fits and have all the billing issues resolved, two or three months may have passed and the shoes are no longer even needed. The frustration of online shopping sometimes makes some purchases not worthwhile. Is this the case with the ubiquitous baker?s rack?

Booz Allen Study Finds the World's Leading Corporate Innovators Stepped Up R&D Spending in 2006: Rise in R&D expenditures now matches sale
Booz Allen Hamilton's (www.boozallen.com) third annual analysis of the world's 1,000 largest corporate R&D spenders, released today, finds that these corporations increased their R&D investment last year by twice the dollar amount of 2005's R&D spending rise. For the first time in four years, the pace of R&D spending in 2006 caught up to the rate of sales growth among these companies. North American headquartered companies led the way with the largest increase in absolute spending; R&D investment in emerging markets continues to grow rapidly, but remains a relatively small percentage of the global total. Toyota was the largest corporate spender on R&D i...

Specialist Antiques Marketing Agency Launches, Arming Antiques Businesses with Same Marketing Techniques Major Brands Use
The recently launched MarketingAntiques.com meets the advertising needs of the ever-increasing number of online businesses that deal in antiques.

Checkout: Point of Sale for Mac Version 1.0 Released
Today version 1.0 of Checkout, the new Point of Sale application for the Mac was released. Checkout offers retailers a new, user friendly way to run their stores. Checkout is available at an introductory price of 329 euros.

Why Do Realtors Advertise Your Home in Print,on the Radio, on Television, etc.?
Why Do Realtors Advertise Your Home in Print,on the Radio, on Television, etc.?Realtors represent a huge part of the national advertising expenditure each year in newspapers, magazines, radio and television.

Do The New Automated Marketing Systems Really Sell For You? THEY SURE DO! Now Find Out How You Can Make More Money Online!
Start Your Million Dollar Business Today - Get Your Piece of Internet Real Estate Making You Money An Elite Group of The Best Online Business Opportunities Has Developed New Turnkey Marking Systems Leading To Instant Success For New Entrepreneurs With Best Online Business Opportunities An Unintended Result - New Entrepreneurs Out Earn "The Pros"

Snowmass Wellness Experience Nurtures the Whole Person in Holistic Summer Mountain Festival August 17-19
Best-selling authors and renowned wellness experts converge in Snowmass Village, Colorado, for a holistic wellness festival August 17-19, 2007. No other wellness event in the U.S. offers such a comprehensive and intimate opportunity to explore wellness issues, both for individuals and professionals and in settings that range from hiking trails to on-mountain yoga studios to the kitchen to classrooms.

Should You Try to Sell Your Home During the Holiday Season?
FSBO website Fizber.com offers good home-selling opportunities during this season.

Sun Teams with Oracle to Deliver Pre-Configured Data Warehouses: Oracle Optimized Warehouse For Sun Provides a New Way to Buy Data Warehouses Built
Oracle and Sun Microsystems, Inc., (Nasdaq:JAVA) today announced the availability of the Oracle(R) Optimized Warehouse for Sun. The Oracle Optimized Warehouse for Sun is a complete, out-of-the-box, high-performance data warehouse solution built upon the world's leading database and Sun's leading hardware and operating systems.

CORRECTING and REPLACING Real Pro Systems Launches VillageMaker(TM), First Online Social Networking Solution for Real Estate Agents and Their Clients:
Eighth graph, third sentence should read ... 541-686-0015 (sted 503-686-0015).