02-18-2011, 05:31 PM
Your architect or draftsperson should draw up your blueprints to meet code. Basically, you tell them the house you want to build and they draw it up to meet code. There will be a lot of things different than Michigan, but look and see what the buildings around here look like and ask why they are different. One of the big things I can think of right now is roof overhangs. We have huge eaves here because we want to keep the sun (as well as the rain) off the sides of the house. Keeps them much cooler since the electric is too expensive to run A/C units. Ventilation is a good thing, you want the wind to go through your house. Not like Michigan, at all!
Putting your house ten feet in the air means long stairs to get into it. Might not be a house you want to grow old in if there are long flights of stairs. But ten feet in the air might get nicer views or better breezes.
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Kurt Wilson
Putting your house ten feet in the air means long stairs to get into it. Might not be a house you want to grow old in if there are long flights of stairs. But ten feet in the air might get nicer views or better breezes.
Kurt Wilson
Kurt Wilson