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Comment by malfist

9 days ago

> Basically nobody ever died from leaky pipes or substandard weatherproofing

Famously, moist wet areas only grow molds that are safe for humans to live amongst, and absolutely never rotted away wooden structural components of a building.

Sounds like a tacit admission that those bits are written in rotten wood rather than blood.

The part I take issue with isn't the building code in principal or that non lethal things can be regulated. It's that the people being to lie though their teeth and pretend it's all written in blood when a whole bunch of it isn't are essentially stealing credibility from those parts that are. A few bad apples (handouts to industry) spoils the bunch (very clearly important stuff, like floor and roof loading).