Sorry, I don't consider them reasonable and I don't have to accept them!
I built a garage, with a little frame breezeway (10X14) between it and the
house. The jerk doing my final inspection said I had to have 5/8" bolts
through the band joists into the house and garage every three feet, because
it was a "deck" and decks have their very own code here. They have their
own code because a shyster contractor built an apartment house near a
college nearby and didn't attach the decks properly. As has happened more
than once, the college kids loaded the (second floor) deck with 50 or so
people and it separated from the building, with predictable results!
When I got the head man out and asked if he thought a judge would consider a
floor supported on two sides by buildings a deck, he agreed with me and
passed the structure.
Electrical? Have you ever heard of GFCI breakers? They tried to make a
friend wire his whole shop, concrete floor, with them, at about $60 each!
BS, that was about $1000 worth of hardware easily replaced by common GFCI
receptacles! IMHO, the electrical code serves primarily the manufacturers
who help write it and the many inspectors who live by enforcing it.
OK, I didn't intend to extend my rant and I'm very aware we are way OT, so
I'm not going to say more. Just please resist ridiculous and intrusive
regulations whenever you can.
73,
Wilson
W4BOH
----- Original Message -----
From: "jimlux" <jimlux@earthlink.net>
To: "David Gilbert" <xdavid@cis-broadband.com>
Cc: "Wilson Lamb" <infomet@embarqmail.com>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower Permitting
> David Gilbert wrote:
>
>> Do all of those restrictions make sense? Probably not ... private
>> bureaucracies are just as onerous (well, almost) as government
>> bureaucracies ... but I'll bet knowledgeable people could link every one
>> of those restrictions ultimately to either a perceived liability or cost
>> issue.
>>
>
>
> I'd take it a step further.. I'd bet that just about everything in the
> electrical code is there because something actually went wrong and
> something burned down, someone was electrocuted, etc. The code making
> panels are full of people who have a genuine appreciation of the tradeoffs
> between imposing a rule and the cost of compliance.
>
> Now.. local land use restrictions (zoning, etc.) and the permitting
> process is another story...
>
> That's where you're supposed to be able to explain why YOUR particular
> situation doesn't need to meet the code.. they are, after all, the
> "Authority Having Jurisdiction" and they can either impose additional
> requirements or grant waivers. Most building officials I've met have been
> fairly reasonable folks, within their own constraints, but you have to
> appreciate those constraints.
>
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