The county generally approves a perk test and septic tank plan beforehand and accepts or rejects the job after completion.
In some locales you will also face almost impossible competition unless you have a monority partner and/or jump through a few other "social" hoops. Quite a few counties also make it tough to run a business out of your home, which means the expense of a commercial space to operate legally.
I live rurally, I put up a shop building and it's about 1/8th mile from my house. I looked into adding a well and small septic system just for a shitter and some gray water. Just the permits alone were dizzying. So I collect condensate water from the dehumidifier for rinsing, washing, I piss outside if I have to and I have a composting toilet should I need.
Having a seperate commercial space is not a bad idea. Imagine if there's a fire in the shop. Do you want that fire hitting your house at the same time? Imagine the fire starts in your house. You get out, your house goes down, but the shop is still good to go. At least you still have a livelyhood to rebuild your house with.
That only applies to work where you are doing things that can cause fires. I used to work for a guy who started his own Real Estate firm and house flipping business. He was required to have an office that was not his house. So he had to buy commercial property that he never used. I was his only employee and did all the work in his basement.
He did. We just didn’t use it. We could do everything from his house where he already had internet and everything set up. Plus he could help keep an eye on the kids if his wife needed to run errands.
Yes, it is handy, especially out here. No hydrants and all you can do is watch it burn before they get here. My property is wooded, the house is down in a ravine, the shop is up by the road.
The county generally approves a perk test and septic tank plan beforehand and accepts or rejects the job after completion.
In some locales you will also face almost impossible competition unless you have a monority partner and/or jump through a few other "social" hoops. Quite a few counties also make it tough to run a business out of your home, which means the expense of a commercial space to operate legally.
I live rurally, I put up a shop building and it's about 1/8th mile from my house. I looked into adding a well and small septic system just for a shitter and some gray water. Just the permits alone were dizzying. So I collect condensate water from the dehumidifier for rinsing, washing, I piss outside if I have to and I have a composting toilet should I need.
Having a seperate commercial space is not a bad idea. Imagine if there's a fire in the shop. Do you want that fire hitting your house at the same time? Imagine the fire starts in your house. You get out, your house goes down, but the shop is still good to go. At least you still have a livelyhood to rebuild your house with.
That only applies to work where you are doing things that can cause fires. I used to work for a guy who started his own Real Estate firm and house flipping business. He was required to have an office that was not his house. So he had to buy commercial property that he never used. I was his only employee and did all the work in his basement.
Why didn't he just rent a cheap office space?
He did. We just didn’t use it. We could do everything from his house where he already had internet and everything set up. Plus he could help keep an eye on the kids if his wife needed to run errands.
Yes, it is handy, especially out here. No hydrants and all you can do is watch it burn before they get here. My property is wooded, the house is down in a ravine, the shop is up by the road.
10 grand, is generally what it cost to hire someone to put a small personal septic tank out in a rural area.
Its a hole, plastic bucket, and a pipe.