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gsreimers
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# Posted: 15 Dec 2016 21:36
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Thanks everyone. Made me think about my loft at the cabin. Next time I go up, an escape ladder will go with me.
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Asher
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# Posted: 15 Dec 2016 23:46
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I have no problem with building codes, I think they are a great guide and reference point when in doubt.. My problem is with the process of permits and inspectors... there is just way to much politics involved... for a weekend builder it makes things almost impossible to get done...
Everything I have done on our country (non/minimal coded area) cabin is above the codes of the suburban house we live in..
My problem with permits and inspectors are scheduling... I spend every minute between working my 50hr week job, driving the 5hrs each way to my cabin, or working on the cabin, and a little bit of sleep in between.. I can't take a day off work to wait for an inspector, or spend the day in a government office to wait for approval on something...
If these government offices and inspectors would be forced to change their schedules to allow weekend and evening for "non professional" builders I think they would be met with much more welcoming arms...
I'm all for codes, I have seen some stuff in my past that makes me wonder how things kept standing, didn't burn to the ground, or how no one got hurt.. BUT the process sucks at best...
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TerraLove
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# Posted: 16 Dec 2016 12:30
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Not all building codes are created equal. In 1982 Ontario changed its building code which previously required the concrete walls between the units in the semi-detached and row townhomes and allowed the builder to use as little as 2 layers of drywall. Since then if your drug dealing neigbour has an intrusion or SWAT team raid and either ends in shooting, I and my family can get shot dead through the walls even with a 9mm handguns, needless to say with the 40cal that police is favouring these days.
And in the age when real estate is a commodity and anyone can move in next door any time, the chances of something like that happening are non-zero.
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KinAlberta
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# Posted: 25 Dec 2016 19:46
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'Christmas tragedy': Cottage fire victims believed to be Toronto lawyer and his family
Family's cottage near Peterborough, Ont., 'burned to the ground' on Christmas Eve: area resident
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/toronto/family-dead-kawarthas-cottage-fire-1.39124 60
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bldginsp
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# Posted: 26 Dec 2016 00:28
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No info in the article about how it started, or why they couldn't or didn't get out. When you are asleep, carbon monoxide in smoke puts you more to sleep. A simple smoke detector may have changed the outcome. Quite sad.
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