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Yeah Skunk - it’s like the small town lone cop with a bicycle and a radar gun that reads to 1/100 MPH giving tickets to anyone who makes the numbers blink - nothing to do with safety.

I’m with Destroyer (as usual) that government ALWAYS gets carried away with regulations - bureaucracy is like cancer. I definitely get frustrated with some nit picky building code provisions and more so with one really anal retentive inspector we have but I think on balance, in this market, we need the codes (though I could,do,with fewer of the really stupid provisions). There are a lot of stupid and dishonest people in the business and not just the little guys. I hate to think what some of the giant builders would foist off if left unregulated. The joke here about a huge national builder (even among their superintendents when you get them alone) is that they build the cheapest crappiest house they can get past the inspectors and then put lipstick on the pig.

Just my two cents.