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   CloudHidden | May 29, 2006 10:19pm | #1

   Best thing you can do is talk to your permitting officials and learn their preferences. Some don't care if it's on a napkin. Some have a specific format. If they want it CAD-ed, then we can offer suggestions, but that might not even matter in your locale.

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   Gene_Davis | May 29, 2006 10:35pm | #2

   Now that Google Sketchup is free, why hand draw anything for a permit submittal?

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   Waters | May 30, 2006 12:36am | #3

   Wassat?

   I'll be off to look at that right now thank you...

   pat

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   PASSIN | May 30, 2006 04:13am | #4

   Waters

   Were damned near neighbors except I live on the right side of I-5. LOL

   For county and Springtucky permits for simple decks and such I've penciled up drawings on notebook sized paper. for larger stuff such as additions and new construction my designer uses chief arch. on full size prints. Hopefully soon ill be buying my own software and start doing all designs in house.

   I've never walked into ugene with notebook prints but im willing to bet if it was for something simple and they were to scale it wouldn't be a problem.

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   Waters | Jun 01, 2006 05:56am | #5

   It's a small Cyber-World after all!

   Say then, You can help me out.  Where do I go--who do I call for a county permit? 

   I just landed a good deck job out in Marcola--sort of in the sticks.  I'm pretty new and don't know all the rules for what doesn't need a permit as far as decks go.   This  one is big, 60' x 10' but only 2 steps up--less than 30" off grade.

   I was thinking to just build it and be done--homeowner doesn't care either way.. but I ought to stay on the up and up if I'm required to have the permit.

   Who are you anyway?

   I'm "Waters Construction."

   Thx,

   Pat

    

    

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   PASSIN | Jun 02, 2006 05:53am | #8

   Waters,

   If your deck is less than 30" off ground no permit is required. That is for county and bolth of our cities. I just finished up a big project out in Marcola a couple of months ago, be sure to get a slice of pizza from the little store just off of marcola and sunderman roads good stuff (not the store IN marcola).

   Also if you go thru marcola look to your right at the wobble box on stilts cant miss it, i was the unfortunate soul who contracted to build the deck around it. Twas a fun one! actualy if i get time ill post a pic of it so every body can get a laugh.

    

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   Waters | Jun 02, 2006 06:37am | #10

   You mean the place at the Y where Wendling Rd comes in?

   Oh I noticed that long ago!  It looks like a manuf. home showpiece or something... 

   Great deck though!

   Thanks for your help.

   Will partake of Pizza--maybe even this Sun when a buddy and I go up to dust some clay pigeons at Shotgun Creek.

   (Like to play hillbilly now and again!)

   Pat

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   PASSIN | Jun 02, 2006 06:03am | #9

   Just reread your post.

   County permits can be obtained at the county courthouse lower level floor.

   If you search for lane county and go to there website you can browse around to find just about all of there handout sheets for permit requirements and just about everything else you may need, same goes for eugene and springtucky. Ive printed most of them out and keep them in a file folder for refrence.

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   PASSIN | Jun 02, 2006 06:43am | #11

   I know these are really big but i cant figure out how to resize.

   Help anyone?

   Any how the owner is a realistate broker and small developer, he picked up this chunk of land along with some other property up the road. he developed and sold the other parcels and wasnt sure what to do with this peice as it sits in a flood zone.

   He was talking to his engineer and the idea was struck to do what you see in the pics. Its still for sale if anyones interested in packing ther groceries up the stairs!

   
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   blue_eyed_devil | Jun 01, 2006 04:21pm | #6

   Gene, I couldn't get sketchup to do the things I needed to draw a relatively simple floor plan. I'm sure it's not the program, but it's me. I don't have the time to learn it. It took me days to figure out how to create a bay window wall.

   blue 

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   Gene_Davis | Jun 01, 2006 04:59pm | #7

   Blue, in our little backwoods jurisdiction, a simple 3D model that shows info on shape, footprint size, height, and overall look is all that is required to get a permit, and Sketchup can be used for that.

   With a little practice, you can draw the to-scale floorplan on the horizontal plane, pull up the shape to a wall height, save that shape as a group, then do another plan on top of the shape, boosting out to get a roof overhang, then draw in your ridges and hips, and pull up the roof.

   Popping in windows and doors from the available-on-free-download architectural components is easy.

   Not a sophisticated package like Chief Architect, but adequate for simple work.