Until all homes meet 25% of the current standards maybe we should back off new development a little. Putting new standards on new homes while requiring no retroactive improvements is just another way the "ME" generation of baby boomers passing the costs of their lack of foresite on to their children.
So just who is going to montior this, who will levy fees and fines for non-compliance, at what point will these older homes need to be brought up to "code", and who will pay for this? Talk about your unfunded mandates and government intrusion.
Electrical codes have little to do with safety and more to do with some lobbyist for a switch maker paying off someone to make everybody use tamper resistant recepticles in new homes after January/February 2009. Funny thing is my shop was completed in December 2008, and passed electrical inspection w/o issue. The I applied for my house electrical, I now had to use different plugs. So can you really say that I am that much safer because of the different plugs in the house vs. the shop? Both were code at one time.
This is just one exapmle of a code update. Imagine all of the other ones out there? Put your plan into place and these industry lobbyists would be falling all overthemselves introducing new code changes.
Show your work Krjack. Substantiate your statement.
Previous Topic
Index
