Spaceman wrote:
> The building codes are minimum standards. If your friend built better
> than code, he should have fought the inspector with appeals, and he
> would have won. Better than code certainly meets the code minimums,
> and the inspector would have looked silly in court.
Unfortunately, in the smaller cities, the inspector, the firemarshal,
the banker, the lumberyard guy, the local landlord land baron, are all
good buddys and all on the city council.
>
> I often tell the apprentices that I teach that the code is the worst
> job you can do and still pass inspection.
>
I like this philosophy.
> Spaceman
>
I suppose as long as we have the do gooder system requirement to protect
us from ourselves, we will have to skirt around, educate and make
compromise however we can. Too many do gooders make laws.
~Brian
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