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Methinks an Amish-built house would exceed most building codes.

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"Methinks an Amish-built house would exceed most building codes."

I believe most codes require electrical outlets at specific locations. Having dealt with the bureaucratic inspectors, I know how they love to wield their power.

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If they're anything like the 250-year-old post-and-beam farmhouse I grew up in, probably.

It's not like some of these building codes are designed to improve construction anyway: the law requires that many buildings use metal, not plastic, drainage pipes. Why? Not because metal is superior to plastic, but because it takes two men to handle a metal pipe and only one to handle a plastic pipe. The plumbers union objected when the city considered allowing plastic.

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Not if the building codes specify handicapped accessibility and require things that the Amish don’t generally have or use.