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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 07:13:20 JST Bread up, Bro
   as far as kit houses go, running electricity and plumbing are not hard. anyone with 100iq who has successfully completed geometry can do this; Additionally we have inspections that ensure rules are followed anyway.
   
   Installing a load center is a bit trickier, but the majority of the work is in balancing loads on circuits, and you can do that with a kit design.
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     Christmas Man (christmasman@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 07:29:07 JST Christmas Man

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     • john_darksoul
     @john_darksoul @sickburnbro All those requirement (permits, water, power) are entirely in the realm of "It depends". In some municipalities, before you even consider building, you're going to have to pay roughly $50k in fees and permits before you're even allowed to start clearing the lot, and that's not including all the steps along the way to meet all your code requirements before you'd be legally allowed to live in the home. Were you somewhere in, say, rural East Texas, you wouldn't need a single permit so long as your parcel doesn't have any deed restrictions and it meets the county minimum size requirement to qualify for unpermitted septic.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 07:29:07 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • john_darksoul
     @christmasman @john_darksoul I was talking merely about you need to have an inspector come out and say, verify things before you slap on drywall.
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     john_darksoul (john_darksoul@ariamispainted.world)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 07:29:08 JST john_darksoul

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     @sickburnbro I do wonder about this sometimes. I wouldn’t mind taking a chunk of PTO and hiring some guys to help me do it but there are some unknowns. You have to find an open lot in a decent area. Then do I need permits? How do I connect to the grid? To city plumbing? To internet? Is the true cost of doing it like this even less or will I just have more customization? How long will it take?
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 07:54:20 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • john_darksoul
     @poastoak @christmasman @john_darksoul iirc they usually want to see your electrical and plumbing before you slap on the drywall, but I don't know how many "out of city" places are laxer than that.
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     Poast Oak (poastoak@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 07:54:21 JST Poast Oak

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     • john_darksoul
     @sickburnbro @christmasman @john_darksoul If you're outside city limits usually the only thing that needs to be inspected is your septic system
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 07:54:46 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • john_darksoul
     @poastoak @christmasman @john_darksoul like a lot of places still have county inpsectors
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 00:14:12 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Charles_in_Charge
     @Charles_in_Charge even good plumbers have leaks sometimes, it's just the nature of the beast. The key is understand a few important things: whenever you are joining things it has gotta be clean; copper, pvc, two garden hoses. If stuff isn't clean, it will leave a way for water to get out.
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     Charles_in_Charge (charles_in_charge@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 00:14:13 JST Charles_in_Charge

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     @sickburnbro Maybe I'm retarded or cursed, but every time I've tried my hand at plumbing, shit ended up leaking, even when I had an actual plumber there over my shoulder telling me what to do step by step. Worked a couple jobs helping an electrician pulling wire. I think I could do that job without killing myself or setting things on fire. But water seems to hate me.