Trying to build a tiny house myself. Ive built basement suites and done renovations, not terribly complicated and the process was relatively simple. Could fit the guidelines for a basement suite on about 4 pages.

But this tiny house thing is ridiculous. I have my development permit and building permit which already took a powerpoint presentation to the town council, approval from the planning commission, and then several submissions and lots of scale drawings for approval for the building permit, plus the fees.

So I had some specific questions and wasn’t sure where to ask. There are SIX different places where I could find different sets of building regulations. Figured the most applicable would the National Building Code for my province. Opened up the document online and its 1,570 pages!? What the hell?

So I narrowed it down to the section on homes and small buildings and just the INDEX for that section is 7 pages long.

This is nuts. No wonder people don’t want to build homes. The codes are so ridiculously detailed that unless you study it for a living its just crazy complicated (There’s a code for how many hinges you put on a door and how deep the screws have to go into the casing)

I’ll slog through it but if I cant find the answers in a couple of hours Im gonna revert to the old “its easier to ask forgiveness than permission” approach and see how cranky the building inspector gets.

Man, you want houses built in Canada? Make it EASIER to find out how to do it.