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At 09:00 PM 11/6/00 -0800, Ray Dillinger wrote:
Then again, as far as I know no Amish-built house has ever fallen
Wow, you're related to the Amish?
Anyway the English :-) may make exceptions for the Amish, but generally, and even in rural america, you can't sell a house for human (chiiiildren) occupation that's not wired for classical infrastructure ---water, wires, N lbs/ft^2.
Huh? A couple of years ago I was driving through Lancaster county , Pennsylvania (ground zero for the Amish in the US). There were plenty of Amish houses on the edge of towns, which most conspicuously did *not* have the power, phone, and cable hookups which the 'English' houses did. Can't speak for water or sewage, which would be underground. These were not isolated farmhouses, but otherwise 'normal' looking suburban tract homes, I'd guess not more that 10-15 years old. Peter