Part 1 - Demo, Excavation, Electrical Trenching, and Foundations - Building a Tiny Office

I'm building a 65 square foot standalone tiny office in my back yard - join me for the journey!
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• Tiny Office Series
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Chapters
0:00 - Intro
3:10 - Site Prep, Excavation, Initial Trenching
5:40 - Laying Footings
9:16 - Trenching + Running Electrical Conduit
14:37 - Framing and Squaring the Base + Weed Prep
17:25 - Subfloor Framing
21:17 - Laying the Subfloor
23:13 - Outro
Zach

[@dafedder]

way to go! Great work man

[@workshop_edits]

Appreciate it!

[@Smudgie33]

Great tutorial. I agree always better to over engineer then under engineer…

[@workshop_edits]

Agreed - I'd always be wondering why I didn't do it...

[@KaSplat01]

Love it, keep it up

[@workshop_edits]

Thanks!

[@diycentral]

Cool series 👍 What I wondered the second the video started though and didn't hear mentioned is, what are the setbacks in your area?

[@workshop_edits]

Thanks!
The setbacks in my area are VERY confusing; all literature I could find said 3 feet. Others said 5, but that was for larger properties (not sure why - could not find).
To be honest this structure is a little closer than that to the main block wall - I'm at about 2.5' (its a little hard to tell in the video); but in my area, nearly every ADU, tiny building, shed, or other stand alone structure are within inches of property lines, are placed in areas they shouldn't be (eg - a front driveway), or people have too many (like someone having 3-4 Tuffsheds, all on property lines, all violating some rule). I am not advocating for that, but it appears the sort of "lay of the land" in my area is that pretty much anything goes unless you have a super terrible neighbor calling building and safety on you.
I didn't error on the side of caution and to be honest I wish I had just played it safe, but by the time I dug into it even further I had gone too far, and would advise anyone to do their own research for their area!