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Shed Permit Guide: Size Limits, Setbacks and Site Plans
Everything that decides whether your shed needs a permit, where it can go on the lot, how it must be anchored, and what the application includes.
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Deck Permit Guide: Rules, Drawings and Inspections
When a deck needs a permit, what drawings to submit, the footing, ledger, guard and stair rules reviewers check, and how the inspections work.
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Shed Without a Permit: What Size Can You Build?
The size thresholds behind shed exemptions, how floor area is measured, the other factors that remove the exemption, and the rules that still apply.
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Do You Need a Permit for a Deck? The Four-Question Test
A simple test based on the residential code, the local rules that override it, and the edge cases: replacements, platforms, floating decks and repairs.
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Do Prefab Sheds Need a Permit? Kits, Delivered and Metal Sheds
How kit, delivered and metal sheds are treated by permit offices, the manufacturer documents to request, anchoring in high-wind areas, and site planning for delivery.
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Deck Footing Requirements: Size, Depth and Frost Line
How deep deck footings go, how they are sized, how posts attach to them, and what to have ready for the footing inspection.
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Can You Put a Shed on an Easement?
Why easements usually prohibit sheds, how to find them on your plat and title documents, what can happen to a shed already in one, and safe…
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Deck Ledger Board Attachment: Code Rules and Details
The deck ledger is the connection reviewers look at hardest. Here is what it must attach to, how it is fastened and flashed, and when a…
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Workshop and Pole Barn Permit Guide
Permit rules for larger outbuildings: post-frame design, agricultural exemptions and their limits, rural setbacks, electricity and turning a barn into living space.
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Deck Railing and Stair Code: Heights, Gaps and Steps
The guard, baluster, stair and handrail dimensions reviewers and inspectors check on residential decks, with a printable checklist.
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