On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, David Honig wrote:
At 02:13 AM 11/6/00 -0500, Tim May wrote:
I just can't think of anything the law requires me to have in my house. As it should be.
* running water * N toilets per hectare * electricity * walls, stairs, floors made to certain state minima (standards) * N metres of terra between A and B
Um. Not true. Many of my relatives do without the first three owing to religious proscription. Since they tend to build their own homes in big house-raising parties, (ie, would rather pay for employing their own community for a day plus have singing, a banquet, and horseshoe pitching instead of paying the same money to "some outlander", aka a contractor) the standards to which contractors are held in building have never become an issue. Then again, as far as I know no Amish-built house has ever fallen down or had the roof blow off in a storm, and the locals hold them in high regard as solid structures (this is Kansas, where the wind occasionally dismantles other buildings). I don't think a structural inspection would likely be a problem.... Bear