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Originally Posted by Fuzz
If you are going to build next summer, spend the winter researching all the things like property line setbacks, eaves projections, elevations, utilities(like who to contact and how much lead time). If you aren't doing it yourself you still may want to know these things when you are shopping for a contractor. If you are on a steep hill the biggest expense will be concrete, but it also means fewer walls so easier to DIY.
If possible, make get 100A to the garage to wire for EV's. I had to move my overhead to the house as it was in the way of the garage, so it made sense to do 200A to the garage, then underground to the house with 100A off of that. You want to know this stuff before pouring concrete. And if you want heat, get the trench for the gas line dug at the same time.
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I have a big garage note I’ve been keeping track of all kinds of stuff to remember good ideas I’ve read or seen. Wish I knew if we would stay here for sure because if I’m uncertain I will probably just build a basic garage but depending on cost we have a lot of space could easily have a parking pad triple car garage and if it was two storeys for storage or whatever the second storey would be level with the house that’s how sloped the yard is. Like needs 8 foot plus retaining wall