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| Cliff (Floridacracker) (68.205.7.129)
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I am about to raise the roof on a bay of my shop so that I can park my conversion project in there. I am planning on a MCI9 w/ roof air. I am probably not going to raise the bus roof. The problem is, I don't have it yet! Whats the minimum height to make it fit? Any comments from your experiences would be appreciated. Cliff | ||
| TWO DOGS (4.227.116.147) Rating: N/A |
13'6" | ||
| Henry R. Bergman, Jr. (Henryofcj) (63.224.197.10)
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As high as you practically can. Here is why. May have truck trailers inside years from now. You may sell the place. You may die of old age. At the least you will need room to move around on top of the coach servicing the AC units, plus running lights, coating the roof, etc., etc.. Might be as easy right now to go as high as you can, within reason. Might even have the coach up on blocks AND be on the roof. Make sense?  | ||
| Greg Roberts (Gregeagle20) (24.175.221.41)
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I am building a house with a garage for my bus and I have chosen 13 wide, 53 long and 16 high. 16 is a really good carpenter friendly height and this gives me about 4 feet work space to do anything I want up there. | ||
| James Maxwell (Jmaxwell) (66.81.212.177)
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Your absolute minimum is 12'-2" w/standard roof airs. Based on all the other reasons given, you be the judge from there. 16' would be nice, but where I live in CA, code requirements for walls 16' and above bring on some xtra requirements that can get costly. Most opt for 14' opening height. My own busport roof is soon to be raised from 11-6 (for the Grumman) to 12-6 for the Neoplan, which won't allow space for working on the roof while under the busport. | ||
| Jim Ashworth (Jimnh) (172.201.129.25)
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Check also, the standard height of garage doors. Costs may increase greatly if an oddball size is chosen. 14' comes to mind as a usual door height. You could have additional height inside for working on the roof. This would get a legal vehicle in. Jim | ||
| Airless in Mississippi (68.243.101.227) Rating: N/A |
20 ft.. Nice height can buy metal building just add slab. Cheap | ||
| Bill Moldenhauer (12.74.15.205)
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My mc-9 with 10" roof raise and carrier roof tops is 12'9" | ||
| Tom Caffrey (Pvcces) (65.74.66.104)
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If you have some code requirements that greatly increase your building cost at some height such as 16 foot and you would really like to build to that height, you might look at shaving an inch or a few inches to just get under that requirement. This sort of thing is done all the time and occaisionally makes for some odd situations, but that's no reason to keep from doing what you want, if a compromise will work. For what it's worth. Tom Caffrey PD4106-2576 Suncatcher | ||
| James Maxwell (Jmaxwell) (66.81.208.146)
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Airless: Things must be different in Miss., as I suspect they are just about anywhere u go. Code won't allow 20' single stand walls on residential property in CA. and even on Commercial property, the side-sway bracing would make it extremely pricey. All this doesn't even give consideration to the fees required, if it were permitable. Anything but cheap. By the time you bought the building, pay for the engineering, pay the permit fees, do the sight prep and excavation of footings, pay for all that redi-mix for those 4x4x4 (feet that is) pilings, you better have 1 damn nice bus to put in it (I'm talking Marathon price range) and then you can start that 1% tax bill every year that escalates by 2% value, each and every year thereafter. By the time you pay all this, you are going to need 2 or 3 x-tra jobs, which eliminates any time to use the bus, so why the hell have it in the 1st place? | ||
| Airless in Mississippi (68.243.108.74) Rating: N/A |
Yes standard building permit and are used extensively thru out the south. He is in Florida I assumed from his users nick. The basic building code is here "got a piece of dirt we can build it". | ||
| Cliff (Floridacracker) (65.33.16.197)
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Thanks for all your replys and input. I have decided to go with a 14' height at the entrance and a 17' top of roof. I do have major tree pruning to do. After working in a few of the Hurricane hit areas I don't want that 24" limb hanging over my shop anymore. Cliff |