american building codes ?

[Eli]

well yeah, but I thought we might go so far as to put some proper names in there......

I think it's pretty universal that you gotta walk right to get passed. The guy doing the electrical inspection on my current job (and the work, coincidentally) is a member of a Beer brewing club with my client.

 

[Per Swenson]

Eli,

Don't get me wrong, graft is not rampant.

And when it does happen its more like a time share for your brother in law in the Bahamas.

That would be for the 200 unit condos.

But lets face it, its still a old boys club.

Joey gets pulled over for doing 30 in a 25, he is paying the ticket.

The mayor gets stopped for being loaded and knocking over a few mail box's, he gets a ride home.

No impropriety there but then that officer never has a overtime problem again.

Per

 

[Ted Miller]

I remember back when I first starting working with my pops on jobs, ok I was the "gopher" anyways he ask me how I would like to help him build a large deck on this house he finished a few years back. Hey at 11 years young I was following his foot steps, man couldn't wait to get to that job site and maybe start swinging a hammer.

So we got to the job and he said "see this tool", posthole digger, "see all those chalk marks on the ground, yup all 24 of them, makes me some holes". Great so I began spinning and getting into that first hole. So after a few minutes I was down 20" or so and said hey pops I am done. He said, "when your knucles hit the ground, you are below the frost line, 48 inches".

Boy did I learn to hate the frost line. My favorite was getting out the 90,000 BTU kerosene heater, make a tent with visqueen, and heat up that ground in order to get those footings done for a addition in below zero weather...