Pennsylvania's Shiney New Construction Suppresion Law

[Beestie]

Originally posted by Griff ... I believe in being free to create what I want to create. If I want a stacked stone foundation, I don't want some underemployed engineer swinging by to inspect, fail, and declare uninhabitable my home. If I want to live without electricity or running water the same goes.

Which part of the new regs says you can't live without electricity? But, if you wire a home addition, it needs to be wired properly. And, as far as I can tell, the only way your stacked stone foundation would fail is if it were structurally unsound. What am I missing here?

This is pretty much how it works in the rest of the country and its a good thing. Do you want to buy a house that was built like crap? What happens when Harry the Homeowner does his own wiring, and builds his own foundation (both without any inspection), realizes that he's F'd it up beyond repair, sells the house and it burns down and falls down? The public is best served when all construction meets the universally (in America anyway) accepted building codes.

Sounds to me like y'all have been getting away with murder up there (I noticed that there are only 2 states left that don't require the same inspection procedure). I'm not sure that I'd complain about your building codes and enforecement thereof being the 48th laxest in the country. I don't understand why you feel this is out-of-control government intervention. PA isn't jumping ahead of the curve its catching up to the curve. My $.02, anyway.