Creating a Workshop & Home

[LarryD]

Six and a half bathrooms? Do you have an idea what kind of septic system that's going to require? /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif.

We remodeled a picnic area a couple years ago that had about six toilets / urinals and four sinks total. It was next to the beach and the soil didn't perc very well. We installed a pressure system with two lines about 60' each. The catch was we put 5 tanks in the ground, two 1200gl and three 1000gl. The logic was the large storage capacity would hold an influx of effluent and then the pressure system could dose it out to the drain over a period of time. All this was based on an idea the area would get heavy use on weekends / holidays and low use during the work week.

How does your soil perc?

 

[EddieWalker]

MarkV,

The workshop is just the first building. There will be a Duplex owners house of decent size, a store, three bathroom/laundromat buildings and a rally hall.

This building will only provide bathrooms for my tent campers.

LarryD,

I'm putting in a temporary septic system that will only need to handle myself, my girlfriend and her two kids. The main reason I bought my land is the access it has to a sewage treatment plant. No way I'm planning on building an RV Park on a septic system.

My soil doesn't perk at all. It's all clay. I'm gonna run 200 feet of leack lines just for us.

Eddie

 

[tomnky]

Eddie,
I may be all wet concerning this, but In Ky where sewer is available state law requires us to hook on.

I have no idea what Texas law says but You may want to check it out.

 

[EddieWalker]

tomnky,

I should be more clear. The treatment plant is across a state highway and up a hill from me. In order to connect to it, I have to build a lift station and run about 2,700 feet of pipe to the nearest manhole.

In my area, if you own 10 acres of more, you can install your own septic system. The only real catch is that you also have to do your own maintenance and repairs.

This only applies for residential use. If I wanted to use septic for commercial use, then the rules are long and involved. There is also limits to the amount of gallons per day you can put into it, which translates into about 60 RV sites, give or take a few. No way to make money with that small of a park.

 

[EddieWalker]

The weather started out wet this morning, so I got a late start on setting my forms. First I had to measure and mark off a 48 foot square, then check the diaginal. If anybody is curious, a perfect sqare with 48 foot sides is 67 ft 11 inches diaginaly.

 

[EddieWalker]

I'm still pounding in stakes, but this gives you an idea of the layout.

The open area up front will be a covered, outside storage area. The workshop is the front corner, 24 ft X 30ft.

My home will be the back 18 feet X 36 feet with a second story.

The five bathrooms and utility room will be along the far side to the right.

 

[HuckBB62]

What a project!!! Well, in our county, you're not allowed to build on fill unless it's 1. tested for compaction rating. 2. even after testing, you're not allowed to build within five feet of the edge of the tested material.

I've done a lot of RVing, there's a lot of folks besides the tent campers that depend on the camp's showers. A LOT of RVs have iffy showers, toilets, gray and black water tanks and small water heaters and they very much want to shower in a real shower and to poop in a real crapper. Just something to think about. Even if you don't have the bathrooms, you still have to have the septic capability for all those RVs. If not, how far is the nearest dump station?

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Eddies hooking up to the treatment plant. If I remember right it was about a hundred grand for the priveledge with everything. But like he said, there's no way a septic system could handle that kind of load.

Eddie I often have to build square while keeping on the same line or plane as an existing building. The way I do it is find the line that's parallel. Then I run my first cross line. I'll pull out the calculator. A squared (parallel line) plus B squared (right angle line) equal C squared (diagonal). I'll pull one diagonal and have the far corner nailed.

I know it's more fun pulling diagonals and adjusting. But sometimes I can't take the time to have the fun. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[LarryD]

<font color="blue"> The only real catch is that you also have to do your own maintenance and repairs.
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Based on your previous posts Eddie, that doesn't sound like it's going to be much of a problem for you. Have you got a laser level yet? /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[EddieWalker]

Harvey,

Funny thing about you mentioning using math to determine the location of the corners. I figured that a perfect square would be easy enough to layout by the diagnals, but ran into trouble.

My Dad thought I was being foolish doing it that way and got out his paper and a pen and figured it out. His first result was to have the corners 85 feet apart. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Since the sides are 48 feet long, I figured he needed to try again. He did, and he came up with a different number each time. On the third attempt, I was under an inch of being square, so he quit.

Neither of us do this enough to be proficient, which has allot to do with my plodding methods. If I stick with it long enough, I can finish just about anything.


LarryD,

I bought a Spectra one man lazer level kit on Ebay last year for $200 that is just awesome. It's called the LL200 I think. We're using it now to measure the slope for the drain pipes.