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I love watching their youtube channel for the comments. So many things they do aren't up to code depending on location and it's amazing to see what is kosher an

I love watching their youtube channel for the comments. So many things they do aren't up to code depending on location and it's amazing to see what is kosher and what isn't just depending on where the house is.

dsfyu404ed 7y ago
I really hate the "code worshipers" that pop up in the comments on everything building related. You give someone advice on how to do something and then a million assholes take it as their opportunity to butt in with some comment that usually start with "well actually". They're all just virtue signaling to each other about how much they know the code. Like, screw you. I told OP how to replace his water heater. If the old didn't fill his house with CO then the new one won't either assuming he does a straight swap. Trying to give practical advice is such a pain in the ass.
- 0xffff2 7y ago
  On the one hand, yeah, it's annoying. On the other hand though, if a piece of advice is wrong, it's wrong. It's not really a great idea to just ignore the building code when it doesn't suit you. There's a real problem in some parts of the internet where people with a superficial understanding of the problem space offer advice as if they were experts, and it needs to be pushed back against when those people offer bad advice.
  - dsfyu404ed 7y ago
    Yeah, but bad advice is easy to tear down without resorting to the "hurr, durr, check your local code, my code requires X." The people that just worship the code without understanding why the code says what it says are what I'm complaining about. A lot of building code is there to facilitate consistency and ease of inspection and in those cases the "wrong" way of doing things is perfectly fine at small scale but it would be impractical/expensive to do that at a larger scale.
    - function_seven 7y ago
      Any time someone from Phoenix posts their new deck, there will always be someone chiding the shallow footings. ("Frost will destroy that in 3 years, hurr, durr.") When a new home addition in Los Angeles is featured, you get the Brick Mafia laughing about how we use wood frame construction ("You yankees use cheap stuff"). Never mind that earthquakes favor the bendy sticks over the brittle blocks. Huge swaths of code are tied to local weather and common disaster scenarios. Florida really likes their hurricane ties, California loves their Simpson ties, in New England you need to dig down 4 feet to install a birdbath! Other large discrepancies just come from different attitudes toward methods. Like mechanical vents for plumbing (where the vent goes to an interior check valve instead of up through the roof). Some places allow it, others prohibit it. I don't know why exactly, or who is "right". But the point is: if The Code is someone's only objection to a construction technique, then I don't think it's a valid objection. They need to say why the technique or omission is wrong or dangerous.
- lutorm 7y ago
  On the other hand, if you have a choice of whether to do it according to code or not, wouldn't you rather pick the one that's legal? Or, if you judge it not worth it, at least be aware of it?

dsfyu404ed 7y ago

I really hate the "code worshipers" that pop up in the comments on everything building related. You give someone advice on how to do something and then a million assholes take it as their opportunity to butt in with some comment that usually start with "well actually". They're all just virtue signaling to each other about how much they know the code. Like, screw you. I told OP how to replace his water heater. If the old didn't fill his house with CO then the new one won't either assuming he does a straight swap. Trying to give practical advice is such a pain in the ass.

0xffff2 7y ago
On the one hand, yeah, it's annoying. On the other hand though, if a piece of advice is wrong, it's wrong. It's not really a great idea to just ignore the building code when it doesn't suit you. There's a real problem in some parts of the internet where people with a superficial understanding of the problem space offer advice as if they were experts, and it needs to be pushed back against when those people offer bad advice.
- dsfyu404ed 7y ago
  Yeah, but bad advice is easy to tear down without resorting to the "hurr, durr, check your local code, my code requires X." The people that just worship the code without understanding why the code says what it says are what I'm complaining about. A lot of building code is there to facilitate consistency and ease of inspection and in those cases the "wrong" way of doing things is perfectly fine at small scale but it would be impractical/expensive to do that at a larger scale.
  - function_seven 7y ago
    Any time someone from Phoenix posts their new deck, there will always be someone chiding the shallow footings. ("Frost will destroy that in 3 years, hurr, durr.") When a new home addition in Los Angeles is featured, you get the Brick Mafia laughing about how we use wood frame construction ("You yankees use cheap stuff"). Never mind that earthquakes favor the bendy sticks over the brittle blocks. Huge swaths of code are tied to local weather and common disaster scenarios. Florida really likes their hurricane ties, California loves their Simpson ties, in New England you need to dig down 4 feet to install a birdbath! Other large discrepancies just come from different attitudes toward methods. Like mechanical vents for plumbing (where the vent goes to an interior check valve instead of up through the roof). Some places allow it, others prohibit it. I don't know why exactly, or who is "right". But the point is: if The Code is someone's only objection to a construction technique, then I don't think it's a valid objection. They need to say why the technique or omission is wrong or dangerous.
lutorm 7y ago
On the other hand, if you have a choice of whether to do it according to code or not, wouldn't you rather pick the one that's legal? Or, if you judge it not worth it, at least be aware of it?