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Originally Posted by Bear Islander
A few years ago I had a 14' by 32' addition put on our island home without any equipment. The foundation holes were dug by hand. The lumber was manhandled off of a barge or dragged across the ice.
The septic system is the problem. A standard system requires a lot of digging and dozens of truckloads of sand. It can cost 50k.
If they went with a propane toilet or a composting toilet they could save a lot of money and not need any equipment on the island. I know Diamond Island is mostly alternative toilets, aren't there a lot on Rattlesnake as well?
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$50k sounds like a raping on a septic system, all of our sitework combined cost $31k (clearing the lot and making a barge landing spot, tree work, all materials and extra fill, complete Presby septic 450' back, setting pilings for the house and general cleanup/grading). This was last fall.