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  • tetris11@feddit.ukOPto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneDIY rule
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    2 months ago

    Over here you can pretty much build anything in your backyard (HOA does not exist, thank god for that) within 2m of your fences as long as it’s no taller than 2.5m high. If you wanna build higher, you can go up to 4m but you need to increase the distance from the fence.

    There also needs to be “prior art” (i.e. other people in the area have built similar extensions or outhouses)


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    2 months ago

    Well I’m thinking along the lines of a 4m x 5m base and about 30cm deep. I can’t get a mixing bucket for that without having to do it in dry/wet/dry/wet batches which I think might lead to cracking.

    A truck like that would do the job nicely, and probably could reach through the house, but parking that on a public road would be a big no-no


  • tetris11@feddit.ukOPto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneDIY rule
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    2 months ago

    I don’t understand why I keep responding to people who’s first port of call in any situation is to hurl abuse. I should just ignore it, like everyone else does, I know – but I live in the hope that if you keep the conversation open long enough, they’ll begin to reflect on their conversational reflexes.

    Eh, who knows


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    2 months ago

    It kills me when people with disposable cash whine about people who don’t. You chose to ignore the roll of the dice in circumstance and financial stability that empowered your financial choices above others who simply couldn’t afford the risk, and instead lay the blame on a wild strawman that seeks comfort over an unforgiving inequitable system


  • tetris11@feddit.ukOPto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneDIY rule
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    2 months ago

    That’s a very rural/suburb thing though. Try laying down a thick concrete bed in your back garden in a terraced house. If you’re lucky, you can sneak the truck over the alleyway behind the garden. If not, you’re going to have to somehow pipe it through the house from the road, or do it all manually, in stages, and hope that the damn thing doesn’t crack.

    Agreement on the power tools, but it’s still a big commitment in terms of dedicating space to having them. I have mine hanging on an inside wall next to my TV because I don’t have a garage or shed