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  1. There are dozens of ways to build inexpensively until the Govt. gets involved. Just remember it’s for your safety ! LOL like they care one bit. It’s only for the fees that they can charge and so they can tell you what works and doesn’t because my book says so! No matter what they say about green they (govt.) don’t want you off the money train (theirs that is ie: utilities, etc.).

    1. blank signalfire1 says:

      Absolutely Kim and this is one of my biggest complaints about ‘government’. The codes make it impossible to do what you want on your own land, and that is unconstitutional. It’s not like the codes protect people during hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. They’re there to raise money; all codes involve fees that need to be paid, and if you break the law, there’s huge fines to be paid. It’s a scam with the back up always being ‘well the neighbors complained’ or ‘it affects property values’. The way I look at it, ‘property values’ should be about LOWERING property and housing costs, not trying to keep them artificially raised.

      1. Signalfire I also agree with you on the code issue. This is why as a contractor I stopped pulling permits. I noticed that the codes would be changed as soon as they were
        Written and completely open to interpretation by each inspector. I also warned my customers that each time a permit was pulled your lease (taxes ) would go up for improving their property.

  2. Code red white and blue should over rule these entrapments and money schemes

  3. blank Michael Meredith says:

    as a carpenter, i can say that most alternative building strategies are much more labor intensive than the current ones. Hay bales, dipped in a concrete/clay mix, will prove to be fire/water resistant, and more load bearing. Perhaps smaller bales , made of rice straw, and other “trash”, would make a very good building block in areas with cheap labor, for diy builders, and for moveable buildings, with insulation, interior and exterior finishes intact.

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