It sounds like you have a really nice location for your cabin. Definitely a keeper as a vacation home when you upgrade.
Its gunna be a long one...
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Great idea. But if your only 22, I sse you getting a significant other & children and then moving cause it way to small. I encourage you to think a little longer term. This will be a great thread to watch no doubt. Keep us posted.
22 and building a house...? Man, I wish I had that sort of nouse at that age... Too much money spent hotting up cars and chasing women!!lol!
Good luck to ya, mate, be sure and keep us updated!
Good luck to ya, mate, be sure and keep us updated!
FWIW, 4" sounds too thin for a 16"x16" for a foundation pad, unless it contains some reinforcement. I think they need to be at least 8" thick. Any permits/inspections? In the future it would probably be very difficult to sell without them. A few years ago, we bought an old cabin. It was impossible to get a loan on it, so the seller had to lower the price enough that we could come up with th cash.
No inspections out here that i could ever find a trace of, and it won't be sold, family land and all, I guess that's alittle unusual in this day and age, but it means more to us than some land, its home, y'know? As far as not enough space, I'll be starting an addition as soon as i tack in the last piece of finish molding... adding a bedroom and extending the living room to make room for about a 16'x10'x4' tank 
The 4" is the thickness of the concrete pads that the building will sit on, it's actually pretty common down here because we dont have a deep frost line, which is the primary reasoning behind deep foundations, to control frost heave. Plus im in Carroll County clay... you'd have to experience it. I can stay in one spot with a garden tiller with all the weight on the tines for fifteen minutes and not get 3" deep, and its all but impermeable to water on the hilltops. The 4'' will be the depth of the first block, then a 6x6 post atop that up to the floor beams, a doubled 2x10. I'ts perfectly sufficient for my area and soil type. My parents have a living room nearly as big as my house with large exposed beams in a very steep roof, loft, all kinds of heavy things, and it's built the same way, except they didn't dig their concrete pads in, they just leveled up a spot on the ground and sat them down, been fine for years, a tiny amount of settling when constructing, nothing since, still rock solid and level.
As for the tank, I think I will in fact go with an 8'x4'x3', approximately 700 gallons, 2x4 frame, 3/4 ply with fiberglass, then sweetwater epoxy. Will 1/2" glass work for 36" depth? I've heard it would, but I may go to 9/16 for added insurance.
(Whew, I think im done now)
The 4" is the thickness of the concrete pads that the building will sit on, it's actually pretty common down here because we dont have a deep frost line, which is the primary reasoning behind deep foundations, to control frost heave. Plus im in Carroll County clay... you'd have to experience it. I can stay in one spot with a garden tiller with all the weight on the tines for fifteen minutes and not get 3" deep, and its all but impermeable to water on the hilltops. The 4'' will be the depth of the first block, then a 6x6 post atop that up to the floor beams, a doubled 2x10. I'ts perfectly sufficient for my area and soil type. My parents have a living room nearly as big as my house with large exposed beams in a very steep roof, loft, all kinds of heavy things, and it's built the same way, except they didn't dig their concrete pads in, they just leveled up a spot on the ground and sat them down, been fine for years, a tiny amount of settling when constructing, nothing since, still rock solid and level.
As for the tank, I think I will in fact go with an 8'x4'x3', approximately 700 gallons, 2x4 frame, 3/4 ply with fiberglass, then sweetwater epoxy. Will 1/2" glass work for 36" depth? I've heard it would, but I may go to 9/16 for added insurance.
(Whew, I think im done now)
MississippiNative;2634937; said:As far as not enough space, I'll be starting an addition as soon as i tack in the last piece of finish molding... adding a bedroom and extending the living room to make room for about a 16'x10'x4' tank
That's what I was waiting for. LOL. Good luck.
Now get started.
Patience Pharaoh-san 
I still have to work too, bit of a problem for me as i work 3 - 11pm, and I have trouble going to sleep right after work, but I'm trying to get adjusted to doing that so I have time in the mornings to work on it. Plans have changed slightly, do believe I'll go 8'x4'x3' ~700 gallons. Will either line tank with plexi/abs sheets, or use formica/melamine (heard it called both) to cover the walls, and goop the seams.
I still have to work too, bit of a problem for me as i work 3 - 11pm, and I have trouble going to sleep right after work, but I'm trying to get adjusted to doing that so I have time in the mornings to work on it. Plans have changed slightly, do believe I'll go 8'x4'x3' ~700 gallons. Will either line tank with plexi/abs sheets, or use formica/melamine (heard it called both) to cover the walls, and goop the seams.
