They have become a little more progressive locally. No permits you get to tear it down. If not they send in men and equipment to do it and add the bill to your taxes.

Hundred dollar a day fine applies till it is demolished and cleaned up. I watched them buldoze down a really expensive new cottage near ours less than five years ago. Plus demand another cottage either be moved away or torn down within thirty days. Again near us. The owner spent more moving it than it was worth.

I continually see the refference to hardiboard. What is the stuff? It may have another name here or we do not use it. If only a premium of say 50 percent above vinyl we may not have it. We do have varients on cement board but at a lot more than a 50 percent premium over vinyl.

Even a cement pad for a garage now locally has to be an engineered component. To get around this and it is more sensible anyways. Especially when attached to a house is a frost wall.