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Old 01-03-2014, 10:22 AM
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Default Your Issue May Be Structural

Believe it or not, those birdcages are highly engineered to resist wind damage. The screens will blow out first, long before the metal structure fails--at well over 100 mph winds. But their engineering requires very precise construction of the metal pieces and particularly fastening to the concrete pad and turnbuckles placed at precise places. By trying to build the birdcage over dirt, you may be substantially weakening the entire structure because it would not be fastened to the concrete pad.

That may be a possibility.

By the way, I don't think residents have anything to do with approvals of ARC requests. They are handled by full-time professionals and are based on the authority you agreed to in the deed of the residence you purchased.
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