[TheForge] Speaking of shops...

[Andy Gladish]

Unfortunately, as I found out when I first proposed my rather unusual  
home, building departments have to stick to a "one size fits all" policy.  
Having to cater to the big guns of the building trade is another handicap,  
as is covering their asses with their bosses and potential legal issues.
Without the personal blessing and guidance of a architectural heavy hitter  
on my side I'd have given up and built a box with 1' eaves and most likely  
been perfectly happy anyway.
Andy G.

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:15:50 -0800, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer  
<artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:

> It's reasonable to ask that the codes be met or exceeded in strength,
> durability and so on.
> But i sure do not want to be stuck with standardized design and methods.
> We had to fight that out here and it was wildly expensive and time
> consuming. We ended up with a creatively stultifying process and stupid,
> wasteful, compromises. pf