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Best Pool House Designs | Do I Need a Permit for a Pool House | What Is the Average Size of a Pool House

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Do I Need a Permit for a Pool House? The pool house will be sufficient to contain more drawing room. The French glass entrance is still an exterior drawing room, a cooking room, and a shower. The Interior of the beautiful pool house is a drawing area, a large shower room, and a cooking room.

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What You Should Know Before Taking a Construction Loan

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It covers land acquisition costs, building materials, construction permits, labor, contingency and interest reserves, closing costs, and plans. If the appraisers approve, the lender makes more draw payments to the contractor. However, with a construction loan , you can build your dream home from scratch without making compromises.

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Bring on digital, online building permits!

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I mentioned before design consultants regularly and intentionally showing incomplete drawings with a lot of padding (irrelevant information) to keep the mental image of the proposed building as vague as possible for as long as possible. Assessing documents for permits seems to be another status quo that cannot be improved.

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Rainscreen walls: An updated definition for today’s construction environment

Construction Specifier

“Rain penetration results from a combination of water on a wall, openings that permit its passage and forces to drive or draw it inward,” noted Garden. “It Garden further defined six forces that drive or draw liquid water into a wall system. It can be prevented by eliminating any one of these three conditions.”.

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Develop a Commercial site with BRIKS Design-Build Group

BRIKS Design-Build Group

If you have a large scale project then the costly consultation of site surveyors for tests like soil, topographical reports etc is also cut down as BRIKS provides free consultancy to enhance your experience and make it more pleasant towards your aim of a perfect commercial site. Sounds pretty complex, right?

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Renovating A Heritage Building

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When you take on a project as a builder that has a restoration component to it, it is important that you read all of the drawings, specifications, contracts and heritage preservation assessments. I’m going to walk through each of the stages of a project (from conceptual design through permitting and into construction).

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Improper or Deficient Site Investigation Can Cause Problems

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Owners typically retain a geotechnical consultant, either directly, or indirectly though the designer. Either way, the number of borings the geotechnical consultant will take is often dependent on the funding available. In some roadway rehabilitation projects, the designer bases his or her design on original as-built drawings.

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