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> a layperson can often do better I think it's a mixed bag. I've purchased homes where the previous owner thought they were a wizard at home improvement. One
by bob1029 1y ago
> a layperson can often do better
I think it's a mixed bag. I've purchased homes where the previous owner thought they were a wizard at home improvement. One apt example is a dryer outlet that was converted from 14-30R to 10-30R because the homeowner googled the wrong thing and went down a bad rabbit hole. A good electrician would tell you to change the cord on your dryer and that anything else is a code violation.
- potato3732842 1y ago>A good electrician would tell you to change the cord on your dryer and that anything else is a code violation. It would be a code violation for me to take my exiting 120yo retaining wall and extend it by copying it in exact detail despite the fact that the details of its construction are provably satisfactory. The code isn't there to ensure results. The code is there to make the subjective quantifiable so it can be bickered over and litigated in a fairly deterministic manner.
- bob1029 1y ago> provably satisfactory. I don't think the chassis of my dryer becoming energized is a provably satisfactory outcome. I agree that a lot of code amounts to bureaucratic nonsense, but many rules were changed over time for good reason.
- potato3732842 1y agoEverything sounds like a good reason in a vacuum. I could write an equivalent appeal to emotion justifying why retaining walls ought to be engineered but the fact of the matter is that a bunch of barely literate people working from reference tables managed to do fine and copying them probably will do fine too.
- torginus 1y agoHow did ground fault protection not kick in when you touched it?
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