[TheForge] Speaking of shops...

[Andrew Vida]

Mike Spencer wrote:
>> Wood framing is pretty forgiving.  It has what we call a "running
>> factor".  When you hear it crack and see it deflect, you run.
>>
>> Messing around with structural concrete and structural steel framing
>> is dangerous.
> 
> My rant about just who it is "the code" protects was specifically with
> regard to the right of people to provide their own shelter and take
> their own risks.

	YOu have no such right anymore - the government tit says so.

	The only aspect of this with which I might partly agree is that of 
transfer.  You build a shyte dwelling that looks all purty and it falls 
down around the ears of the poor slob you sell it to.  Of course, there 
is always the novel concept of an inspection by <GASP> competent engineers.