Papercreters: [papercreters] Re: Experience in GA/SC

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

[papercreters] Re: Experience in GA/SC

Hello,

I guess that was to me ? I don't get on here much as I have my sites to manage. Let me see where to begin :
Q:
Are there any particular places in Georgia or South Carolina where it is more or less difficult to get building permits ?
A:
No not really for alternative methods your outside of their knowledge at your best. It's not that they want to say no it's just that they have never been exposed , for the most part of the state to alternatives in construction.

You really need to contact the commissioners office, in the counties where your interested in building at, to find out the current policies. Recently this month in fact, we did a survey in NE. GA. for a client and found Rabun, Franklin and Greene counties to be the easiest to work within due to their policies and personalities of those in charge.

All 3 have building permits as required items, before you start work but, I think Franklin was the easiest to build a residence in, as that they currently issue a permit , with just a simple floor plan presented to them at permitting time. Next, they want to meet with you at your construction site , to point out the set back boundaries per code limits . I recently found 100 plus acres that we may be able to develop into a subdivision over there and will post that at our Yahoo group page when we do. Please join us there and at our Facebook page too. There are links at our Companies web site within the first section of http://georgiaadobe.com

After that meeting your normally able to build your residential structure without any further meetings or inspections. Should you manage NOT to mention just what your actually building as a owner builder &/or that it's from alternative materials, then you might never have an inspection to face. If they learn your building a non-conventional structure or using non-conventional materials , they have the legal right to cause you to prove your chosen building methods and materials, are up to the International Building Code, as Per the state of Georgia's guidelines.

Q:
Are there particular places where I
should be looking for property or avoid looking for property?

A:
See the above answer and Avoid all metropolitan areas and favor less developed areas, that you have learned about "first hand" since your investing ( or gambling ) your money - on a new home in that area.

Q:
Also, can you give me any estimates for construction costs ?

A:
Do it all yourself ~ with what you have on hand - Cost almost nothing ! Hire it all out, buy all the materials and you doing just like everyone else - spending 100 to 500 per sq. ft. on a conventional structure. Now, since we don't even know the basics of where and what, no I really can't say precisely. It is safe to say, if you hire us, then you may spend about the amount of money as to hire any other professional would cost, to both design and build for you. From us, when we and the materials are available, these materials can cost less, for a Georgia Adobe, than for the materials package for a conventional structure, due to the recycled nature of our choosen materials but, due to the normal labor cost and standard operational expenses, all companies face, we are at about the same total cost, to perhaps slightly more expensive, than a conventional construction company , due to the extras we have - that they don't.

I think it's best to say it's trade off; For example a Georgia Adobe Design, normally includes space and equipment for making all of the structures water, gas, electricity, food, alcohol, methane &/or woodgas fuel for your personal transportation fuels as well as the fuels for running of equipment, such as generators, refrigerators, cooking stoves, heaters etc. Eliminate this - custom built equipment and your no longer a totally independent structure but, your getting the front end cost way down but, at the expense, of a higher monthly cost.

With a Georgia Adobe Design, you will be building a structure, that uses vastly lower energy annually than a conventional structure would and therefore, you could over time , use those savings, to go further off grid, one step at a time.

I think from here, it would be best for you to discuss this in person with us. Please feel free to call me at my office # 706-363-6453 and I would be glad to answer, any further questions you, or anyone else has, that's interested in building with us .

Best Regards,
Joe Woodall, Eco-Architect
Georgia Adobe
Commerce GA 30530

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--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "jeaflor" <jeaflor@...> wrote:
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> Are there any particular places in Georgia or South Carolina where it is more or less difficult to get building permits? Are there particular places where I should be looking for property or avoid looking for property?
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> Also, can you give me any estimates for construction costs?
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> --- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "GeorgiaAdobe" <georgiaadobe@> wrote:
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> > Hello,
> > I have a great deal of experience with all that and we work in the SE USA too. How can we help you ?
> > Joe
> > Georgia Adobe Rammed Earth & Renewable Energy
> > Commerce GA 30530
> > http://www.georgiaadobe.com
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> > > --- On Fri, 11/19/10, jeaflor <jeaflor@> wrote:
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> > > From: jeaflor <jeaflor@>
> > > Subject: [papercreters] Experience in GA/SC
> > > To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
> > > Date: Friday, November 19, 2010, 9:54 PM
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> > > Does anyone here have any personal experience with rammed earth, strawbale, papercrete or compressed earth blocks in either Georgia or South Carolina?
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> > > I am thinking about buying property in either Georgia or South Carolina so I can start a CSA farm, and I may be interested in setting up an eco-village. I need to learn as much as I can about using ecologically sustainable building technologies before I decide to move.
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