Nowhere has anyone here said inspectors are necessary, or defended the bureaucracy that surrounds them. What has been said is that the codes are a good guide for minimal safety standards, and we should build in excess of those minimal standards. The codes are not perfect but they will go a long way towards keeping you alive.
Your example is great - you built something that exceeded the code's minimum standards and got a building that worked well. That's exactly the point. If you had built that building without standards or adequate knowledge you likely would not have had such good results. Instead of reinventing the wheel you found a book with the information you needed for a proper design.
Don't even get me started about govt officials driving around in huge expensive 4x4 SUVs that never leave the road and get lousy mileage, trying to get through the day with the least amount of actual work. That is an entirely different issue and has nothing to do with building safely.
Spaceman
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "donald1miller" <donald1miller@...> wrote:
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Those who would defend the building codes and inspectors as being necessary to keep do it yourselfers "safe" need to do a little critical thinking. I notice that some think codes are necessary for minimum standards but in reality the building codes were not instituted for safety at all but as a means of contolling what people can build on their property.
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