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Old 12-22-2012, 09:41 AM
 
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My husband and I found a cabin 30 miles from my parents out in the sticks of Louisa County. We both grew up in VA (him in Edinburg me in Stafford, Fredericksburg, and Bumpass), but came to Alabama five years ago. We love it here, but my parents need help and I'm an only child so we have to move.

The property is 7 acres. My questions are as follows:
1) Can I have a cistern?
2) Can I have a composting toilet and gray water collection system instead of a septic?
3) Does my husband need a contractor's license to build us a house? He has experience because he built our house here and he 100% remodeled the trailer we lived in prior to that.

Thank you for any help you can give me!
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Old 12-22-2012, 10:46 AM
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My husband and I found a cabin 30 miles from my parents out in the sticks of Louisa County. We both grew up in VA (him in Edinburg me in Stafford, Fredericksburg, and Bumpass), but came to Alabama five years ago. We love it here, but my parents need help and I'm an only child so we have to move.

The property is 7 acres. My questions are as follows:
1) Can I have a cistern?
2) Can I have a composting toilet and gray water collection system instead of a septic?
3) Does my husband need a contractor's license to build us a house? He has experience because he built our house here and he 100% remodeled the trailer we lived in prior to that.

Thank you for any help you can give me!
Contacting the county goverment County of Louisa, VA , Most people use a shallow well vice cistern and I don't believe their is a restriction on composting (out house) style facilities. Odds are they will require the property to pass a PERK test for a septic even if you don't anticipate having one.
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Old 12-22-2012, 01:08 PM
 
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